Studying the Bible is Difficult

The people involved in the public relations department of the church always make Bible study sound as though it is easy. It is not. It takes a great deal ...

What Is God Trying to Say?

I ask with all my strength what God is trying to say to us through [the Bible]; since I have learnt to read the Bible in this way it becomes more marvellous ...

God through Me

God's might to direct me, God's power to protect me, God's wisdom for learning, God's eye for discerning, God's ear for my hearing, ...

Not Just a Storybook

Reading Bible stories to children is never an innocent act. It is useless to pretend that the Bible is simply another collection of tales, that Abraham, ...

Understanding the Bible

Alas, so many intelligent people become preoccupied with dates and linguistic problems concerning the Bible that they have not time to seriously consider ...

The Bible Is Alive

The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold of me.

No Bible Knowledge

Increasingly, today's young people know little or nothing about the Western moral tradition.

This was recently demonstrated by Tonight Show host Jay ...

The Bible Bothers

Most people are bothered by those Scripture passages which they cannot understand. But for me, the passages in Scripture which trouble me most are those ...

Taking the Word to Others

In the 1930s in Stavropol, Russia, Stalin ordered that all Bibles be confiscated and Christian believers be sent to prison camps. Ironically, most of ...

Psychology and the Bible

After many years of studying human behavior at one of the finest universities in the world, Harvard psychiatrist Robert Coles remarked, "Nothing ...