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I won’t spend a lot of time on the weekend’s gridiron games, probably because my team (and even my wife’s team) didn’t do so well. But it was another great week at NCC. Heather did a great job, continuing the series How with How to Study the Bible. Next week is the key to your [...]
Here are the 7 points I mentioned in the sermon today:
Choose an appropriate translation
Read critically (ask questions to determine the meaning of the text- what is the style of writing? who wrote it? why? to whom were they writing? what is the overarching message?
Read devotionally. Begin and end with prayer
Write down your observations. Look for [...]
We continue the How series this weekend with How to Study the Bible. I thought I would post some notes that I wrote up about a year ago on how to do devotional reading, inductive study, passage meditation, and Scripture memorization. I’ll be talking this weekend about principles for reading the Bible that are more [...]
Happy New Year, everyone!
Admittedly, I am off to a slow start with Bible Drills this year and would love some feedback from all of you. If you could use the comment thread to provide some ideas on what type(s) of Bible Drills you find most useful (i.e., devotionals, book overviews, study methods, topical, etc.), it [...]
I can’t let Nathan have all the fun with the football victories. Wow– how ’bout them Tigers last night? I was a little worried there in the first quarter, but then they started playing like an SEC team, and I was super proud of them. Great game. My condolences to Christina Regule, Nick Schaer, and [...]
First, this picture explains the most important development of the weekend. I won’t spend a lot of time on the game, but I must say that if Post columnist Thomas Boswell was right in saying before the game that the Seahawks might have “almost the worst defense in the entire NFL,” what does that say [...]
Welcome back, NCC leaders! Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and a blessed start of 2008. Ryan and I went to Oregon for Christmas and did pretty much nothing. We did manage to shoot some clay pigeons (well, shoot at clay pigeons), build a snow-man-type-thing, hike a bit in the Redwoods, and throw the football [...]
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