CAN I TRUST THE BIBLE?
See this short video for three great recommendations:
The video is intended as satire, but the three titles it recommends are all great places to start:
Tag Archives: Reading the Bible
Where to start in the Bible?
In any healthy church you’ve got to hope you’ll be running into people all the time who are just starting to read the Bible. What do you tell them? Where should they start? Do they need any aids?
I was recently asked in our small group to put together a list for where someone can start reading the Bible. Here is my list.
Praying the Psalms
Here is a great blog post done by Tim Keller (pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City) about how to use the Psalms for prayer.
The Psalms are in incredibly helpful resource in the Bible for how to deal emotionally with God in real life. This Psalm guide will help you do that.
Tim Keller’s Sermons on the Psalms
Monergism.com is an incredibly great place to find all kinds of study resources. It’s one of the websites I frequent most.
Monergism refers to the reformed or Calvinist doctrine that salvation is the single action of God. God saves us, rather than a combination of the will of God and the will of human beings. That is referred to as “synergism.” So anyway, this is a website produced and overseen by reformed or Calvinistic Christians. However, even if you don’t like that, there are still some killer resources on here. Continue reading Tim Keller’s Sermons on the Psalms
More on Exodus 32-34
Resources to Understand the Nature of Scripture
As we prepare to help people grow in their understanding of Scripture, at some point those we teach have questions not only about the content of the Bible but also how the Bible came to be. Thankfully there are plenty of resources on this subject, and Desiring God has compiled a list of books they recommend in these three categories:
- The formation of the canon (how it was decided which books are included in the Bible)
- The reliability of the New Testament
- Refuting the claims of some recent critics
Continue reading Resources to Understand the Nature of Scripture
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