Be a Farmer Who Trusts in God’s Work: Follow Me (Part 14)

Read Scripture and Let Scripture Read You

What is the Bible? The Bible is unlike any other book ever written… it’s an ancient collection of writings, comprised of 66 separate books, written over approximately 1,600 years, by at least 40 distinct authors. The Old Testament contains 39 books written from...
Be a Farmer Who Trusts in God’s Work: Follow Me (Part 14)

Biblical Studies Needs Theology…

I recently was told by someone that they didn’t need theology because they just needed the Bible. N. T. Wright responds in The New Testament and the People of God as follows: “Biblical studies needs theology, because only with theological tools can...
Be a Farmer Who Trusts in God’s Work: Follow Me (Part 14)

Warfare in the Old Testament, by Boyd Seevers

Two weeks ago I was talking to a young twenty something who classified herself as a “skeptic.” Our conversation was about Jesus, faith, church, and the Bible. It was really fun and I think we both were enjoying our conversation. At one point in the...
Be a Farmer Who Trusts in God’s Work: Follow Me (Part 14)

Can a passage of the Bible have multiple meanings?

Everyone reads the Bible with some basic assumptions about how the Bible best speaks. For example, these are the types of questions that people are often thinking of: What did this mean when it was written? What did the author intend for this to mean? How have people...