Why Are There So Many Stories in the Bible? (Episode 9)
Why are stories so important? Stories, both fictional and non-fictional, have been used since the beginning of time to impart…
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How to Decode the Stories of the Bible (Episode 10)
So now that we know what stories do, let’s look at how they do it. If you dissect any good…
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How the New Testament Letters Preach to Us (Episode 11)
Epistles in the Bible are letters written to God’s people by the apostles and prophets. Similar to the modern-day sermon,…
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Reading the Bible as the Living Word of God (Episode 12)
While our modern method of determining truth is to interpret information as either true or false, the Bible takes into…
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Beyond Bible Study: From Consumers to Participants (Caroline Smiley and Kyle Worley)
To find your place in the story of Scripture, you have to understand the story and then how the story…
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What Do Rituals ‘Do,’ and What Makes a Ritual Sacred? (Ben Noonan)
Rituals aren’t mechanistic activities with immediate results. In Scripture, sacred rituals gradually shape people for particular purposes.
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The True Causes and Purposes of Religious Doubt (Matthew LaPine)
Matthew LaPine describes how he guides others through their doubts, which often stem from struggles with mental health and other life crises.
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Love Your Enemies Better through Knowing the Biblical Land (Danielle Parish)
To understand biblical texts—including how to love your enemies—we should learn something about the places in which the events they describe occurred.
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You Are Not Your Own—Thank God (Alan Noble)
One of the most countercultural sentences comes from the Heidelberg Catechism: our only comfort in life and death is that…
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