We look to books like Proverbs, Job and Ecclesiastes for rules to help us live more godly lives. But these books don’t want to make us smarter. They want to make us more wise. The difference is in how we see the world, and how these books can be guides to us, to help us live as God’s people in even the most complicated situations.
Continue readingBiblical history doesn’t hold up to our modern standards for history. So how can we trust history in the Bible? And more importantly, how can these stories of ancient peoples and events help us know God better today?
Continue readingMany of us find poetry to be an impenetrable genre. But the purpose of poetry is to point beyond the limits of language to deep truths of our existence. The Bible is more than a quarter poetry – how does biblical poetry invite us to know the God who is beyond our words about God?
Continue readingCan we all admit we skip the legal codes in the Bible? It’s hard to imagine texts that have less to do with our daily lives… isn’t it? How can we read the Bible’s legal codes for spiritual formation? Leviticus 19 illustrates just how relevant these ancient legal texts are to our world today.
Continue readingActs is a history book. But it’s ancient history that has a clever twist: the main character isn’t Peter, Paul or any other human. Acts is the story of how the Holy Spirit empowers Jesus’ first followers to take his good news to the whole world. How can we read this story so that we take part in that transformation?
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