Maybe you saw the pictures…gold-colored sludge oozing its way down the Animas River in Colorado caused by a breach in a dam at an abandoned gold mine. Workers were doing maintenance on the mine on August 5, 2015 and accidentally destroyed a dam holding back a retention pond that contained waste water from the mine. Reports say … [Read more...]
Five Quick Tips for Personal Bible Study
Does your personal Bible time needs some encouragement? Let these tips serve as a booster to spark some inspiration and motivation for the most important thing you can do in a day: listen to God through His Word. 1. Start a Quest Meaningful Bible study is hard to achieve with a casual or haphazard … [Read more...]
A Moment for Holy Wow
Stop what you’re doing. Take 10 minutes to breathe in a verse of God’s Word, Ephesians 2:10. Consider it a personal flash mob devotional moment. There is some Wow to be had in this verse. First the whole verse, then we’ll step into it phrase-by-phrase. For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus … [Read more...]
The Lost Art of Bible Memorization
I have been an observer, studier, ruminator and meditator of Scripture. I have seldom been a memorizer. It’s not out of any philosophical approach to learning Scripture that I’ve not made Bible memorization a staple of Bible disciplines. It’s more out of reasons that I think are common to most, namely, impatience. And these … [Read more...]
A.D. The Bible Continues…A Bible Background Brush Up
If you haven’t checked in yet with A.D. The Bible Continues, you might want to. As a point of confession, I am not hugely enthusiastic over Bible story depiction. I’m not sure why, partly because the depictions over the past decades tend to run through the filter of western Christianity and come off, well, cheesy. … [Read more...]
Summer Missions: The Power of Hear and Do
It’s a rhythm through all of Scripture. It’s what keeps our foundation solid. It’s what produces a crop exponentially greater than what was sewn. It’s what keeps us from fooling ourselves. It’s the steady sway of Hear and Do. Understand and practice. Know and keep. It’s why summer missions experiences are … [Read more...]