Bible study
Friday Playlist: Genesis 12:1-15:21
Track One: Genesis 12:1-9
Genesis 12 begins the story of one of the most important religious figures for three major world religions; Judaism, Islam, and Christianity. Abram, a desert nomad hears God calling him to leave behind everything he ever knew and travel to a new land. Abram leaves behind not only the territory that he [...]
Friday Playlist: Genesis 6:5-11:32
Disclaimer: I put this playlist together while doped up on pain medication following my recent surgery. Hopefully it will all make sense!
Track One : Genesis 6:5-22
Today, I want to share with you and extended note from my study Bible that I find helpful.
In it’s story of the flood, Israel shares a flood tradition found not [...]
Friday Playlist: Genesis 1:1-6:4
We begin this new set of playlists at “the beginning” with the book of Genesis. To get a feel for the journey the journey we are about to begin with this first book of the Torah, I wanted to share the following quote from my study bible. It’s a bit lengthy, but I think it [...]
Where are the playlists?
I was working this week on stuff for our men’s small group that we’ve recently started on Saturday mornings. We’ve been meeting at 7:30 a.m. on Saturdays which sounds ridiculous but we’ve had a great turn out and great discussion every morning. I know many of our men have commented that it works great for [...]
Friday Playlist: Hebrews 6:13 - 13:25
Track One: Hebrews 6:13 - 7:28
In reference to ch. 6:13-20, my study bible contains this note. “Because of God’s faithfulness, Christian hope becomes confident expectation.”
In what ways have you seen this statement become true in your own life?
The writer of Hebrews again returns to the subject of the priesthood of Melchizedek and finds significance [...]
James Reading plan
The reading plan for the book of James is now available here. All subsequent weeks will be posted on this page as well. I hope you’re enjoying James.
Reading James : Week One
Yesterday [Saturday] we began our new message series on the Book of James. If you’d like to join me in reading the book of James and some selected texts that relate to this book, here is the reading plan for week one. I’ll be posting four weeks worth of daily readings. Feel free to email [...]
Friday Playlist Plans
As I shared a few days ago, I just finished the last Friday Playlist associated with the book of Matthew. The 28 chapters of Matthew ended up being broken down into six weeks of readings. When I came up with the idea for the playlists, I knew it would be a lot of work, but [...]
Matthew Playlist Completed
Today, I posted the final week of readings from the book of Matthew which is the first book that I’ve done in the “Friday Playlist format. For those who have not been using this format and still might be looking for a resource to help develop the discipline of daily bible reading, I thought I [...]
A novel idea…
I’ve been publishing my Friday Playlist for five weeks now. If you’re not familiar with the Friday Playlist, I started writing it in response to a survey of our congregation about what “tools” they felt like could assist them in their study. Fairly consistently, I heard that most had a desire to study the bible, [...]
