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The Bible Calls Us
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Eugene H. Peterson
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1 Corinthians 1:26-27, Ephesians 4:1-6, 2 Thessalonians 2:14, 1 Timothy 6:11-16
God speaks the decisive word that puts us on the way, the road. The path of life. The Hebrew word for Bible is Miqra, a noun formed from the verb “to call” qara. The Bible is not a book to carry aroun...
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Is the Bible More Like a Rule Book or a Compass?
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Jeff Myers
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- The Bible
- Compass
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2 Timothy 3:16-17, Romans 15:4, Isaiah 55:11, Hebrews 4:12-13, 2 Peter 1:19-21, Matthew 4:4, Matthew 24:35
The Bible contains rules, but it’s not helpful to think of it as a rule book. As important as rule books are, they don’t inspire devotion. Imagine curling up with a cup of coffee and your company’s em...
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Martin Luther
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- The Bible
- God's Pursuit
The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold of me.
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Shane Claiborne
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Luke 24:27, John 5:39-40, Hebrews 1:1-3, Matthew 5:7, Matthew 17:1-5, John 8:1-11
The whole Bible is God’s Word to us, but Jesus is the sniff test through which we understand it all.
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Søren Kierkegaard
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The matter is quite simple. The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minut...
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Dealing With Difficult Bible Passages
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Frederick Buechner
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Have you ever found yourself reading the Bible and you came across a scene that is horrific, filled with awful violence or scheming swindlers or ethical blunders, and you find yourself unsure what to ...
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Seeking a Spiritual Home in the Bible
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Kathleen Norris
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2 Timothy 3:16-17, Romans 15:4, Isaiah 55:11, Hebrews 4:12-13, 2 Peter 1:19-21, Matthew 4:4, Matthew 24:35
Many people these days feel an absence in their lives, expressed as an acute desire for “something more,” a spiritual home, a community of faith. But when they try to read the Bible they end up throwi...
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Jonathan Grant
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Christian leaders tend to use the Bible as their exclusive source for framing Christian speaking and living. Yet only through a kind of “thick description” of our present circumstances, being attentiv...
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Glen Scrivener
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The Bible tells us that we’re not a mistake or even just a pleasant surprise. We are wanted. We are the planned offspring of the God of love and he longs to share his life with us.
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Same Bible, Very Different God
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John Mark Comer
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Last week, an atheist came up to me and asked how I could believe in a God who made parents eat their children. Naturally, I was a little confused. A lot of people have odd ideas about God, but ...
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Isabel Best
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Hebrews 4:12
As Christians, we must read the Bible not only “for” ourselves, for nourishment and encouragement, but also “against” ourselves at times, to hear what God in Christ is really saying.
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Charles Wesley
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- Inspiration
- The Bible
The Bible must be the invention either of good men or angels, bad men or devils, or of God. However, it was not written by good men, because good men would not tell lies by saying 'Thus saith the ...
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The Bible a Great Comfort
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Andy Cook
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2 Timothy 3:16-17, Romans 15:4, Isaiah 55:11, Hebrews 4:12-13, 2 Peter 1:19-21, Matthew 4:4, Matthew 24:35, Isaiah 41:8-10, 2 Corinthians 1:3-4, Psalm 46:, Genesis 37:12-36, 1 Samuel 19:, 1 Samuel 20:, 2 Corinthians 11:23-30, 2 Corinthians 4:17, Acts 21:27-36
For seven years, Terry Anderson was held as a hostage of Shiite Muslim fundamentalists. The former reporter for the Associated Press had been taken captive and held as a political prisoner, and for se...
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Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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- The Bible
The Bible is not the light of the world, it is the light of the Church. But the world does not read the Bible, the world reads Christians! “You are the light of the world.
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Bob Goff
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- The Bible
- Religion as a Weapon
I don’t think Bible verses were meant to be thrown like grenades at each other. They were meant for us to use to point each other toward love and grace and invite us into something much bigger.
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Mike Cosper
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- The Bible
- The Christian Life
We think knowledge of the Bible is all that matters, so we fail to attend to our character, our soul, and our relationships. Our way of living the Christian life leaves all of these things unchanged.
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Charles R. Taber
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The very existence of the Bible is incontrovertible evidence of the God who refused to forsake his rebellious creation, who refused to give up, who was and is determined to redeem and restore fallen c...
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Rachel Held Evans
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- Individualism
- Bible Interpretation
When we turn the Bible into an adjective and stick it in front of another loaded work (like manhood, womanhood, politics, economics, marriage, and even equality), we tend to ignore or downplay the par...
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John Ortberg
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- The Bible
- Desire
The story of the Bible isn’t primarily about the desire of people to be with God; it’s the desire of God to be with people.
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Glenn R. Paauw
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- The Bible
- Bible Interpretation
One of the core reasons for our Bible engagement breakdown is that so many would-be Bible readers have been sold the mistaken notion that the Bible is a look-it-up-and-find-the-answer handy guide to l...
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Augustine of Hippo
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The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.
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Reading the Bible: Examining Each Leaf
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R. C. Sproul
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Genesis 22:1–19, Exodus 3:1–15 , Isaiah 53:, Luke 15:11–32, Psalm 23:, Romans 5:6–11
Martin Luther said that every Christian ought to read the Bible from cover to cover every year. But, likening the Bible to a forest, he also said that reading the Bible doesn’t become really enjoyable...
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Søren Kierkegaard’s Advice on Reading the Bible
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Phillip Yancey
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Genesis 22:1-14, Exodus 14:21-31, Micah 6:6-8, Matthew 22:36-40 , James 1:22-25, Psalm 119:105
Søren Kierkegaard offers two suggestions for the reader who tackles difficult portions of the Bible. First, read it like a love letter, he says. As you struggle with language, culture, and other barri...
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Understanding the Bible is a Struggle
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Thomas Merton
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Genesis 22:1-19, Exodus 32:1-35, Ecclesiastes 1:1-18, Matthew 20:1-16 , John 6:53-66, Psalm 73:1-28
Thomas Merton’s words about the Bible in general apply to the Old Testament in particular: There is, in a word, nothing comfortable about the Bible — until we manage to get so used to it that we ...
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Northrop Frye
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Exodus 17:8-16, Joshua 6:1-20, 1 Samuel 17:45-47, Ephesians 6:10-18, 2 Timothy 4:7-8, Psalm 144:1-2
The style [of the Bible] is of the battlefield rather than the cloister.
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Gary A. Haugen
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Amos 5:11-12, Micah 2:1-2, 1 Kings 21:1-16, James 5:1-6, Luke 18:1-8, Psalm 10:17-18
The sin of injustice is defined in the Bible as the abuse of power—abusing power by taking from others the good things that God intended for them, namely, their life, liberty, dignity, or the fruits o...
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Understanding what the Bible Means by “World
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Ben Patterson
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Romans 12:2, John 15:18-19, Psalm 24:1-2, Micah 6:6-8, Genesis 1:31
We need to be careful to define what the Bible does and does not mean by “the world.” It does not mean the created order—mountains, lakes, forests, deserts, seas, animals and people—especially people...
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Jumping out of the Bible
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Francis Chan
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- The Bible
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Acts 2:42-47, Matthew 25:35-40, Isaiah 58:10, Luke 14:13-14, James 1:27
In Francis Chan’s latest book “Letters to the Church,” he shares about his first year after leaving his large church in suburban Los Angeles to start something new. It was something Francis himself wa...
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The Bible Outlives its Pallbearers
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Charles Colson
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- The Bible
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2 Timothy 3:16-17, Romans 15:4, Isaiah 55:11, Hebrews 4:12-13, 2 Peter 1:19-21, Matthew 4:4, Matthew 24:35, Isaiah 40:8
The Bible has, amazingly—no doubt with supernatural grace—survived its critics. Thirty to sixty million copies are produced annually. The harder tyrants try to eliminate it and skeptics dismiss it, th...
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Dwight L. Moody
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- The Bible
- Transformation
The Bible was not given for our information but for our transformation.