Highlighting your Bible can be an easy way to slow down, be more intentional, and train yourself to notice more specific details in the text of Scripture. I first began highlighting verses I liked when I was in middle and high school, but over the years (and thanks to formal theological education) what I notice… Read More How to Highlight Your Bible as You Read
Everything in Scripture is purposeful. Every book, chapter, line is there for a reason. So when we read Scripture, we get the most out of what we’re reading when we read closely. Here are a few techniques I use to engage, remember, and connect God’s Word as I read: 1. Underline key words/phrases: As you… Read More Write in Your Bible
One of my pastors in seminary lead a bible study on praying through Scripture, and it changed my life. I had never seen someone take the Bible and pray word-for-word through passages like that. The Word of God isn’t just a source of information, but revelation for the sake of formation: how God speaks to… Read More Praying Scripture: the First Day
The Bible is a weird book. A weird, ancient, written-in-foreign-languages-but-translated-into-our-own kind of book. A book of different books (66 to be exact). A book of different genres (history, law, poetry, letters, etc.). A book with familiar and unfamiliar names (James and John–easy, Mephibosheth–Mefibawhhaat). A simple book and a difficult book. And it’s not always easy… Read More How to Read Your Bible
Easter sermons have been preached (praise God that Easter sermons have been preached), eggs painted, fam photos taken, new outfits tossed in the dirty laundry, and leftovers tupperwared away. And maybe this year was the happiest Easter you’ve ever had. Maybe you celebrated with a new little one for the first time. Maybe you woke… Read More Best/Worst Easter
