Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 1128. Helping children love Scripture is, I think, one of the most important tasks any Christian parent takes on, and also one of the most quietly daunting. We want our children not simply to know facts about the Bible but to treasure it, to reach for it naturally, and to find in it the…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 1127. A Bible reading plan started with such good intentions back in January. This would finally be the year you read through the whole thing. February arrived and you missed a few days. March, you tried to catch up and fell further behind. By April you had quietly given up. Sound familiar? You are…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 1126. A Bible reading approach is one of those decisions that sounds small until you actually sit down with your Bible and wonder where to begin. Should you start at Genesis and read straight through to Revelation? Should you jump around to different books as a need or interest arises? Should you follow a…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 1123. Bible reading dryness is something every Christian I have ever pastored has experienced at some point, myself very much included. The pages seem flat. The words don’t come alive the way they used to, or the way you keep hearing they should. You know you are meant to want this, and yet most…
Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 1100. Social justice is a phrase that can mean almost anything depending on who is using it, and I think that ambiguity is exactly why the question deserves careful unpacking rather than a reflexive yes or no. Scripture has an enormous amount to say about justice, about the poor, the widow, the orphan and…
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…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 1096. Bible movies and dramatic readings have exploded in popularity over the last few years, and I get asked about them often enough that I think the question deserves a proper answer rather than a shrug from the pulpit. Series like The Chosen have brought Jesus and the disciples into millions of living rooms…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 1095. Audio Bible listening has become one of the most common ways church members tell me they get through Scripture, usually confessed with a slightly apologetic tone, as though listening were a lesser cousin of proper reading. I want to put that apology to rest, because for most of human history, hearing the word…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 1094. Bible apps have changed how most of us meet with Scripture each morning, and I think that change deserves more thought than a shrug and a download. I use a Bible app most days myself, so this is not a piece written from the safety of a leather-bound pulpit Bible looking down its…
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…