“They read from the book, from the Law of God, clearly, and they gave the sense, so that the people understood the reading.” Nehemiah 8:8
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- How Should Christians Read the Psalms?Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 1191. Reading Psalms well requires a different approach from reading Paul’s letters or the Gospels, since the Psalms were composed as poetry for prayer and worship rather than as doctrinal exposition, and treating them as though they were straightforward propositional teaching misses much of what they were actually written to do. I want to offer a few practical, biblically…
- What Is Sensus Plenior?Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 1190. Sensus plenior, Latin for fuller sense, names a genuinely contested question in hermeneutics: can a biblical text carry a deeper, fuller meaning that God intended, beyond what the human author himself consciously understood when he wrote it, a meaning only made clear later through subsequent revelation. I want to work through this carefully, because the concept, handled responsibly,…
- What Postures of Prayer Are Appropriate?Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 11118. Postures of prayer vary widely across Scripture, and that variety itself is instructive, because it tells us that God has not bound genuine prayer to a single required physical position. Standing, kneeling, sitting, lying face down, hands raised, eyes lifted or lowered, all of these appear in the biblical record, offered by faithful people in genuine communion with…
- Should a Christian Fast in Secret or Tell Others?Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 11117. Fasting in secret is the standard Jesus sets for His disciples, and it is one of those instructions that sounds simple until you actually try to live it out among people who inevitably notice when you are not eating. Matthew 6:16-18 gives the clearest teaching on this question anywhere in Scripture, and it is worth working through carefully,…
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I’m Ian Thomas, minister of an Evangelical Baptist Church in the UK. I believe the Bible has the answers we’re looking for — not tradition, not theological systems, not what’s fashionable — the Bible itself. This site exists to help you understand God’s Word better through biblical, pastoral answers to the questions that matter.
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