Bible engagement

A conversation between two Fresno Pacific Biblical Seminary professors about why and how Scripture is read in worship services.   Lynn Jost is professor and program director for Old Testament…

Rehearsing Scripture: Discovering God’s Word in Community Anna Carter Florence Eerdmans Review by Ben Kramer What is the subject? What’s the difference between a desert and the way a long-time…

Several months ago, a short-term team came to Thailand for two weeks and helped run a one-week English camp. A young girl named Kao attended that camp. Afterward, she began…

Every February for four years, in conjunction with national “I Love to Read” month, Steinbach (Man.) MB Church has run an “I love to read my Bible” promotion. In February 2015, 57 Sunday school students logged 270 hours of Bible reading.

I stopped for a morning coffee and saw an elderly gentleman sitting alone, his Bible open to Jeremiah beside a steaming cup. All around, his peers were boisterous about a hockey…

Two weeks after I finished seminary, I gave birth to my first child, and all those wonderful Bible study habits were replaced by 2:00 a.m. feedings. I knew how to…

 Where can we find the following Bible verse: “This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down…

Throughout church history, Christians have affirmed that the Bible is the authoritative Word of God. But what does that actually mean? While serving in southern Africa, I met people who…

Gone are the days when everyone quoted from the King James Version. Bible Gateway lists no less than 50 English Bible versions,not including novel paraphrases like the Hip Hop or…

I’m changing Bibles again. As a teen, I read the King James Version (rather unsuccessfully). I began a life-giving journey with the Bible when I started to read the New…

Engagement: Some 50% of evangelical Canadians read the Bible at least once a week. 18%  of Canadians strongly believe the Bible is the Word of God. 1 in 7 Canadians (13%)…

I cringe at the thought of underlining passages in my Bible. In part, as a faithful English student, I hold a certain reverence for all print material. I regard books –…

Varied resources encourage daily Bible reading One of the challenges facing churches today is a decline in daily Bible reading. To make God’s Word part of daily life, Waterloo Mennonite…

For a couple years it was just a fascinating gadget that did amazing things. It can store thousands of songs, pictures, and even a few movies (if you want to…