is it cheating or a learning superpower?

Biblical familiarity is a huge boost to any Christian’s spiritual walk. The more you know the Bible the more it just makes sense and the more you can get out of it. But I think a lot of people dread the process of learning the information to build familiarity....

from the back to the front

Happy New Year! It’s so odd for me to say that it’s now 2025.  That’s the kind of date that I used on strategic planning documents in the late 1990s when I wanted to pick a date “really far out in the future”. Now it’s what I have...

number 1 discipleship recommendation

It’s your friendly author of Christian books on Studying the Bible and some thoughtful devotionals. I love writing about God’s word, but today I want to talk about reading it. I just finished reading through the Bible for the year.  Revelation 21 was the...

Toxic Brew: Politics & Scripture

When politics starts to appropriate scripture to defend its cause, danger is close. One of the joys of reading through the Bible is that I run into scripture passages that trigger all sorts of thoughts. These are passages that I might not have thought to consider...