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What’s So Amazing About Small Group Discussion Guide
My book "What's so amazing about Scripture?" will help individuals, but I have created resources that also enable us to experience it together in small groups. Here is the Video Group Guide for those working through the 30 videos together. Here is the Book Group Guide...
What’s So Amazing About Scripture? Personal Reflection Resource
To help you absorb and apply the 100s of insights I have packed into What's so amazing about Scripture? I have created this free reflection resource. It is also the basis for a small group of people journeying through the book together. Click here for it.
How to Help a Child to Love God’s Word
In chapter 17 of What’s So Amazing About Scripture? I highlight the importance of each generation passing a love for Scripture on to the next generation. Elsewhere I write about parenting for people of all faiths and none. But here is something for parents of...
The Spirit’s Gift of Insight as we reflect on the Word
This post helps you think about what is meant by Spirit-empowered Bible reading and reflection. In chapter 13 of What’s So Amazing About Scripture? I speak about reflecting on Scripture until God gives us the gift of insight. People often raise a question about the...
Lectio Divina for Individuals and Groups
In chapter 13 of What’s So Amazing About Scripture? I explore an ancient way of reading the Bible that focuses attention on prayerfully listening to God and allowing him to transform us, called Lectio Divina. Here is how to engage in this practice on your own and...
40 Bible Verses to Memorize
In chapter 14 of What’s So Amazing About Scripture? I encourage and equip you to memorize select verses. When people ask me to suggest which ones to memorize first, I give them this list that enables a person to celebrate and communicate the gospel of salvation, grasp...
How to Study The Original Hebrew or Greek Word In A Passage
In chapter 13 of What’s So Amazing About Scripture? I speak about delving deeply into a Hebrew or Greek word so as to tease out its fuller meaning as it applies to its particular passage. Of course, the English translation of the word in your Bible may have perfectly...
An Alternate Reading of James 2:14
In chapter 10 of What’s So Amazing About Scripture?, I argue that belief in the Bible’s truthfulness does not mean that our interpretations and translations are without error. We can be confident in the Bible’s infallibility, even while we are humbled by the fact our...
A Case Study in the Forms of Timeless Truth
In chapter 8 of What's So Amazing About Scripture? I equip the Bible reader to ask what the timeless truths are in each passage by using this question, “Is there a principle to apply, example to follow, warning to heed, promise to believe, doctrine to grasp,[1] wisdom...