Archive for the ‘Bible in 5 mins’ Category

  • Reading the Bible Faithfully

    May 29, 13 • 5 Steps, Bible abuse, Bible in 5 mins, ReadingComments Off on Reading the Bible Faithfully
    Reading the Bible Faithfully

    Before we look at how we can better read Scripture faithfully we need to ask what -reading the Bible faithfully means. There are implications both for how and why we read. Later podcasts will tackle the how in more detail. This one focuses more on the big picture. Future podcasts will cover each of the [&hellip...

  • The Bible in 5 minutes: The Story

    Mar 26, 12 • Bible in 5 mins, Jesus, NT, OT1 Comment
    The Bible in 5 minutes: The Story

    Like all good stories, and the Bible is before and after everything else a story, Scripture begins at the beginning. The beginning of everything, and a garden planted by God. Everything falls apart, for humans fall apart, and many of the stories in Scripture are horrible, grotesque or inspiring, for such a mixture describes the [&hellip...

  • The Bible in 5 minutes: Users’ Manual

    Mar 19, 12 • Bible in 5 mins, NT, OTComments Off on The Bible in 5 minutes: Users’ Manual
    The Bible in 5 minutes: Users’ Manual

    The Christian Bible is a big sprawling collection of documents from widely different time periods (roughly the end of the Bronze Age to the Roman empire) in many different genres (as different as history and love poems, or proverbs and lengthy letters) composed in three languages and two different writing systems. To make matters worse [&hellip...