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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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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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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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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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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.
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Oscar Wilde
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- The Bible
When I think of all the harm the Bible has done, I despair of ever writing anything equal to it. (for contrast)
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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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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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Set Aside Your Culture when Reading the Bible
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Jonathan Walton
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Rather than translating the culture, then, we need to try to enter the culture. When people want to study the Bible seriously, one of the steps they take is to learn the language. As I teach language ...
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Adrian Rogers
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- Quality
- Reading the Bible
When you read the Bible, read for quality not quantity.
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic. Do not defend God's word, but testify to it. Trust to the Word. It is a ship loaded to the very limits of its capacity.
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J.D. Salinger
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- Jesus
- The Bible
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John 14:9-10, Matthew 11:27, John 1:18, Luke 2:46-49, Matthew 17:1-5, John 2:13-17, Exodus 33:18-23
Who [in the Bible] besides Jesus really knew which end was up? Nobody. . . . Jesus realized there is no separation from God.
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O God, this day we thank you for your
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William Barclay
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O God, this day we thank you for your Book. For those who wrote it, for those who lived close to you, so that you could speak to them and so give them a message for their day and for ours; We thank ...
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Which is the Bible Most Like?
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Glenn R. Paauw
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- Scripture
- Biblical World
What genre of literature is the Bible? How we answer this question will ultimately determine not just how we read scripture, but how it will ultimately shape our lives. One Sunday school teacher, teac...
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Christopher J. H. Wright
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- Mission
- The Missional Church
The whole Bible is itself a missional phenomenon. The writings that now comprise our Bible are themselves the product of and witness to the ultimate mission of God. The Bible renders to us the story o...
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Philip Schaff
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Psalm 119:105, 2 Timothy 3:16-17, Nehemiah 8:8, Acts 17:10-15, Galatians 5:1, Hebrews 4:12, Isaiah 55:10-11, John 15:15, 1 John 2:27
The Bible ceased to be a foreign book in a foreign tongue, and became naturalized, and hence far more clear and dear to the common people. Hereafter the Reformation depended no longer on the works of ...