Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 11130. Scripture memorisation is one of those spiritual disciplines that almost every believer agrees is valuable and almost no believer actually practises with any real consistency, myself included in seasons of my own ministry when other demands crowded it out. I want to make a case for why Scripture memorisation deserves a genuine place…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 11127. Praying Scripture simply means taking a passage of the Bible and turning its own words into your own prayer to God, rather than composing every prayer entirely from your own vocabulary and immediate concerns. It sounds almost too simple to need explaining, and yet I find that most Christians who actually try praying…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 11126. A prayer list is nothing more than a written record of the people and situations you intend to pray for, and I want to say plainly at the outset that Scripture never commands you to keep one. It is a practical tool, not a spiritual discipline in its own right, which means the…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 11125. Intercessory prayer is simply prayer offered on behalf of someone else rather than for yourself, and I have come to believe it is one of the most underrated disciplines in ordinary Christian life. We tend to think of prayer as a private conversation about our own needs, and it certainly includes that. But…
Reading Time: 8 minutesQuestion 11119. Kneeling in prayer is the picture most of us reach for when we imagine someone truly serious about talking to God, and I get asked fairly often whether it is something we ought to be doing rather than just something pious people in old paintings did. It is a fair question, and an…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 11076 Daily Bible reading raises a question of quantity almost immediately, and the question is usually asked with a slightly guilty face. How long is long enough? Fifteen minutes? An hour? Is there a figure that would settle the matter and let me stop worrying about it? I understand why people want a number….
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 11075 A Bible reading plan is a tool, and like every tool it is only as good as the job you are asking it to do. People usually ask me which Bible reading plan they should use when what they really want to know is why the last three collapsed by the middle of…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 11000. How should Christians pray? It is one of the first questions a new believer asks and one that mature believers never entirely stop asking. The disciples had watched Jesus pray and their request was not teach us about prayer but teach us to pray, which tells us something about where the difficulty actually…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 11016. Memorising Scripture strikes many Christians as a relic, something belonging to Sunday school prizes and an age before search engines. Why store what you can look up in four seconds? I want to make the case that this is one of the habits worth recovering, and that the reasons for it are rather…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 11002. Biblical fasting is the deliberate setting aside of food, for a set time, in order to give undivided attention to God. That is the whole of it, and everything else people attach to the practice is either application or invention. It is one of the least discussed and most misunderstood habits in Christian…