Here are some good posts for your weekend reading:
3 Reminders as You Enter the New Year 2016 – Brian G. Najapfour
Ten Check Up Questions for the New Year – Kevin DeYoung
Advice for Another Year of Bible Reading – Bruce Ware (DG)
12 Promises for Perseverance in Bible Reading – Dave Zuleger (DG)
Hope you have a great Lord’s Day worshiping the Lord with your local church!
After meditating on God’s Word, I often find God pointing to one or two ways that I need to apply the passage to my life. These applications just “jump” out at me.
But what if an application doesn’t jump out? Or what if we want to consider further possible applications? Here are some good questions to help us apply God’s Word to our lives:
This week our church begins a new Sunday School series with the plan to read and discuss our way through the entire Bible in four years. Each week we will focus on 4-6 chapters. Questions we will be asking each week include:
In addition to those questions, we will be focusing on one theme from each week’s passage which I will post here each Monday. And I have written two reflections for each week that I will also be posting here.
If you don’t have a Bible reading plan, I invite you to join us. The schedule for the next four weeks:
January 4-10: Genesis 1-5
January 11-17: Genesis 6-11
January 18-24: Genesis 12-17
January 25-31: Genesis 18-23
Here are some good posts for your weekend reading:
Anselm’s Prayer for Fullness of Joy in God (via Justin Taylor)
I pray, O God, that I may know you and love you,
so that I may rejoice in you.
The Joy of Living in Jesus’s Shadow– Marshall Segai (DG)
What we learn from John the Baptist is that the greatest glories in this life are not in receiving attention or fame, but in funneling it all to Jesus.
Five Steps to Meditating on the Bible – Colin Smith
To meditate, then, is to think deeply about what God has said to us in the Bible and to prepare our minds and hearts for prayer. Scripture is the foundation of our praying; meditation readies us for it by helping us focus, understand, remember, worship, and apply.
The Sunday Worship Killer – Jason Helopoulos
Donning the robes of the critic maims and kills many would-be worshipers in churches every single Sunday morning.
Hope you have a great Lord’s Day worshiping our great God!
Here are some good posts on Bible reading and study for your weekend reading:
Five Strategies for Daily Bible Reading – Gavin (Soliloquium)
Re-ignite Bible Reading That’s Become Boring – David Murray
Four Prayers for Bible Reading – David Mathis (Desiring God)
4 Tips for Using a Study Bible Well – Justin Taylor
7 Great Study Bibles (Infographic) – Tim Challies
Hope you have a great Lord’s Day studying God’s Word with your local church!
Here are some good posts for your weekend reading:
Exceptionally Ordinary – Borrowed Light
4 Things to Remember When Reading the Bible – Matt Tully (Crossway)
4 Really Good Money Questions – Tim Challies
Prepare for Corporate Worship – Geoffrey Kirkland
Hope you have a great Lord’s Day prepared to worship our great King!
No one is changed by an unread Bible.– Donald Whitney
in Spiritual Disciplines For The Christian Life
Here are some good posts for parents on teaching the Bible to your children:
How to Soak the Next Generation in God’s Word – Jani Ortlund
5 Simple Ways to Teach Your Kids Theology – Aaron Earls
Helping Children Benefit from the Sermon – Erik Raymond
Teach Your Child to Have Devotions – Ryan Higginbottom
Doctrine is the map that guides us on our cross-country journeying through the thousand-odd pages of the Bible, on the one hand, and the complexities of godly living, on the other.
– J. I. Packer in Taking God Seriously
Here are some good posts for your weekend reading:
Five Things Every Christian Should be Doing with God’s Word – Michael J. Kruger
17 Ways to Meditate on Scripture – Donald Whitney (via Justin Taylor)
Of Justice and Generosity – Kevin DeYoung
3 Choices in How We Respond to God’s Kingdom Agenda – Trevin Wax
Hope you have a great Lord’s Day!
