O Father, We’ve been like babies, awaiting strained food from pastors and personalities, rather than feeding directly from Your Hand. We’ve subsisted on spiritual smoothies blended from tweets, sound bytes, and media reports. So, in Your longing for us to grow, You’ve pushed time aside to begin our meal training. You desire that we increase in wisdom and favor (Luke …
You have more of the Word within you than you are currently accessing. Think about it. You’ve read a multitude of verses in church or class. You’ve underlined dozens of Scriptures in your Bible. By now, you have sat for hours, reading the Bible in devotional books or just from your own copy of the Word in your lap. …
For our fourth spiritual exercise, we are going to be learning to use Blue Letter Bible, a website that will allow you to dig deeper into Greek and Hebrew words without going to seminary. There is also an app, downloadable onto your phone, but my instructions below will be for using Blue Letter Bible from the website, as I have found …
“I didn’t get anything out of it.” Sympathetic nods bobbed around the room. No, the topic wasn’t an empty milk carton or a dry sponge. Unfortunately, “it” was the Bible. This young woman’s statement is epidemic in our world today. In fact, we’ve heard it so often, we have begun to accept it as truth. “Maybe the Bible …
In the early 70s, I first heard about the concept of praying God’s Word. As a teenager, I didn’t know how to navigate the large, mysterious book called the Bible, so I purchased my first “Jesus Person Pocket Promise Book” for help. Seemed that small topical segments would be inevitably easier to pray than searching for references in the concordance …
Life in Asia rarely resembled this picture. It was often tedious and challenging. Christian resources were few and my time in the Word was often very dry. I knew that connection to the Vine was the lifeline to my spiritual growth, but I often moaned my passivity and disinterest toward a daily devotion. Ring a bell? Just …
