Posts with the category “reading-together-2020”

We can all see ourselves reacting MUCH differently than Job in similar situations. Job provides an example of a man who is so committed to God that he sees and distinguishes the temporal from the ete...  Read More

The book of Ezekiel underscores the essential truths concerning the glory of the Lord and His transcendent majesty (1:1b, 28b; 2:3; and 3:23). Whereas the prophet Isaiah stressed the salvation of the ...  Read More

When we hear the word “prophets,” we typically think of predictive prophecy or what has been called “foretelling.” That is, predictions of future and end time events. However, we need to keep in min...  Read More

In God’s providence 2020 “just happened” to be the year BCLR would read through the Bible together. This has been a year of confusion, chaos, sickness, financial hardship, death, and a spotlight on t...  Read More

August Reading TipsAugust 1, 2020Douglas Allison How to Find the Wonders in the Bible Your testimonies are wonderful; therefore my soul keeps them.—Psalm 119:129  Maybe you’ve thought, “How do preache...  Read More

July Reading Tips July 1, 2020 Paul HamlineJesus stands out as a master teacher. As we begin reading the gospels in the month of July, we will hear many teachings of Christ and see many methods He use...  Read More

June Reading TipsJune 1, 2020Keith PhillipsIn our English Bibles, Proverbs is the third of five poetical books, the second of three books in the Bible designated as “Wisdom Literature,” the other two ...  Read More

There are many useful resources for reading the Bible. The best are by scholars who are experts in their fields and who believe the Bible is the Word of God. The following resources fit that descripti...  Read More

This month we will be reading through Luke and into Acts in the New Testament, and in the Old Testament we will read about Israel after Joshua in the time of the Judges and into the beginning of Isra...  Read More

Some suggest nearly half of the Old Testament is narrative. In the New Testament, a large percentage of the Gospels and Acts are narrative. So we must understand how to read the narrative genre of Sc...  Read More

When reading the Bible, many Christians wonder whether or not they are supposed to read it as they would read any other book, or whether they should read it in some special or unique manner. The Bible...  Read More

In their classic, "How To Read a Book", Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren claimed that more books have been written on how to read the Bible than have been written on any other aspect of reading. T...  Read More