This is a Write 31 Days Post When we study the Bible, it’s helpful to have a sense of the overall patterns in each book that we read. These patterns work like a map, helping us to see how everything in the book relates as well as helping us navigate through each book. In the...
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Beginnings
This is a Write 31 Days Post. The best place to start when engaging the book of Genesis is the concept of beginnings. Genesis is a book of beginnings. Genesis is fifty chapters long and covers a lot of well-known people and events. But the key to understanding Genesis appears at the very start....
Engaging Genesis
This is a Write 31 Post Engaging Genesis (the book of the Bible, I mean) has turned into a life-theme for me during the last few weeks. Every time I turn around, I’m back in the book of Genesis. The fall sermon series at our church, two different Bible studies, and an editing project...
Daily Bible Study
I think one of the most important things we can do is daily Bible study. Not everyone will agree with me, of course. And that’s fine. But I think, even if you don’t have much of a faith or religion, there are a lot of benefits to reading the Bible every day. And if...
Reasons Why
So much of life is just plain easier to handle when we know the reasons why. When I was teaching composition and grammar, I spent a lot of time trying to give context to the seemingly endless rules of English. Most of my students were much more comfortable in their science or engineering classes....