Our gospel passage (John 6:24-35) for Proper 13B is pretty tightly packed, so I’m going to write a couple of short articles about it this morning. I’ve thought about many things as I was reading this passage, but I won’t have time to write about them all. First of all, as I read this morning,…
Doug Rea says all churches should be seeker sensitive, but who is seeking?
A few days ago I found the Reader’s Version of Greek and Hebrew Bible (HT: Tim Ricchuitti), and while I think it is a good tool, I greet such tools with mixed emotions and I would like to point out some excellent uses for it, as well as some not-so-excellent uses. Much too often students…
This is Steve Hill on David and Bathsheba, challenging us all …
… on their new Master of Arts in Biblical Languages. In growing up in the Seventh-day Adventist Church I got used to the idea that in order to teach Bible or become a pastor one started studying theology/religion at the undergraduate level and then continued at the graduate level with the fundamentals out of the…
Caraleisa has reposted her essay Repost: Sick and Tired of God-stuff; an open letter to theists. This is something she first wrote several years ago and has reposted unchanged. I think every Christian should read it. Just as Caraleisa stuck with her original post, I’m just going to link to my previous response: Witness Without…
You may think that a strange title for a post on Bible study blog. Obviously if you read this blog you must in some sense be interested in studying the Bible. But I want to direct this question specifically to Christian education leaders in churches. This is the time of year when curriculum is chosen. …
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I like to look for common themes in the lectionary passages. If I can find a way to use all four together on one topic, that’s even better. Proper 13B uses 2 Samuel 11:26-12:13a (I’ve already discussed why I dislike cutting this off before verse 14), Psalm 51:1-12 (and I’d prefer to read the entire…