The Hatred of God
I spoke at our Men’s ministry group called Ironman last week. My topic was “A God of Hate vs. a God of Love.” I’ve never said anything before that has caused that much spiritual vertigo (to my knowledge). If you’re interested, you can give it a listen by clicking here.
Repost: Bible Reading Plan
I have had numerous conversations with people about this 10 chapters a day Bible reading plan, so I wanted to repost it in case you wanted to give it a try but hadn’t yet. For those of you that have tried it, please leave a comment with your experience so far. Thanks! If you’re like me, you want to read the Bible regularly but it often seems like a daunting challenge to pull it off with any amount of consistency…
Goodbye TNIV
It was announced recently that they will be working on a new version of the hugely popular NIV (New International Version) translation of the Bible. You may be aware that they did this a few years ago and produced the TNIV (Today’s New International Version). That version was met with very mixed results. As a recent article in Forbes explained: “Whatever its strengths, the TNIV has become an emblem of division in the evangelical Christian world.” So what exactly does…
Bible Reading Plan
If you’re like me, you want to read the Bible regularly but it often seems like a daunting challenge to pull it off with any amount of consistency and discipline. Through the years, I’ve heard of all sorts of reading plans and I’ve tried many of them myself. I will say that a reading plan significantly aids you in the process of reading Scripture regularly, but how do you know which one to try? The most common is the Bible…
Visualizing the Bible
My friend Mark sent me an interesting website from Chris Harrison. In it, Chris has plotted out different connections in the Bible and artistically rendered them to appreciate graphically. Below I display one of his graphs displaying the 63,779 cross-references in the Bible. This takes a few moments to read (and reread) his explanation and then stare at the image for a bit. If you are a visual person than this offers a helpful perspective on the connectedness of Scripture….
