We’ve spent the last four months asking how we know God better. What better excuse to stop and smell the roses, so to speak? God promises that a life of faith transforms us, creating a grove of fruit that feeds the world around us. What has God been doing in your life in this last season?
Continue readingTo be human is to have limitations. We have our perspective – which is good, but it’s also small. When we read the Bible with others, we have the advantage of remembering we’re not the center of the story. God’s bigger purposes come alive to us when we read the Bible together.
Continue readingWhen do we take the Bible literally? Do we have to believe the whole thing is literal truth? We dive into the book of Jonah for an example of how to read the Bible while taking genre into account. How can reading literarily – not literally – help us know God better?
Continue readingHow many of us don’t read the Bible because we find it too intimidating? Psalm 119 is a love letter to Scripture – and in its verses we find a Bible that’s approachable and transformative. So how do we read the Bible to be changed?
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