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Reading the Bible: The Importance of Genre

Tommy Keene
Oct 24, 2018
The previous two posts in this series argued that one of the reasons we have trouble understanding the Bible is because we do not read it in the ordinary way that books are to be read. We assume that because the Bible is the Word of God (which it most definitely is), and because it is therefore...

Reading the Bible: Ordinary Reading (Part 2)

Tommy Keene
Jan 10, 2018
In the previous post we established that good Bible reading requires us read the Bible as God speaking to us in a manner that we can naturally understand. But how do we actually do that? It’s harder than you might think. Over the years we have trained ourselves to read the Bible in an...

Reading the Bible: Ordinary Reading (Part 1)

Tommy Keene
Nov 13, 2017
Sitting down to read the Bible isn’t enough. We need to learn how to read it well; and, reading it well is actually more difficult than one might think. Many of us want to grow in our relationship with God, in our knowledge of what he has taught, and in our spiritual lives, and we know that...