Complete Guide to Bible Journaling: Creative Techniques to Express Your Faith by Joanne Fink My rating: 5 of 5 stars Before I got this book, I had only a vague idea there was such a thing as Bible journaling and no idea how to go about it or what a movement it had become. But… Continue reading Complete Guide to Bible Journaling (review)
NIV First-Century Study Bible: Explore Scripture in Its Jewish and Early Christian Context by Kent Dobson My rating: 4 of 5 stars As someone who writes a bit of biblical fiction, the overview description of the NIV First-Century Study Bible drew me in: “Experience the Bible through Eastern eyes by exploring the cultural, religious and… Continue reading NIV First-Century Study Bible (review)
New Spirit-Filled Life Bible-NIV-Signature by Jack Hayford My rating: 5 of 5 stars I was excited when I found the New Spirit-Filled Life Bible (NIV) offered for review by Thomas Nelson as an e-book. I have used the hard copy of this Bible (NKJV version) since 2005—and love it! What sets this study Bible apart… Continue reading New Spirit-Filled Life Bible (NIV) – Kindle version (review)
John MacArthur's Strange Fire Conference of just over a week ago was a bit of a shaker to the evangelical culture of North America and England. In it MacArthur and his colleagues at Grace To You Church in California argued, based on their cessationist beliefs (the interpretation of the Bible that says that the Holy… Continue reading How the #StrangeFire conference confirms my continuationism
Do you ever use Bible words in your prayers? There are several ways to do this. You can pray complete prayers as they are written. Some well known Bible prayers are the Lord's Prayer (Matthew 6:9-13), and the prayers that Paul prays for the early church in Ephesians 1:15-20 and 3:14-21. Wes and Stacey Campbell… Continue reading Pray the Bible
I have for about a decade now, begun the new year by choosing a life verse for the next 365 days. This year I've added a layer to that choice in that I have also chosen a word for the year—a theme, you might say. My theme for 2013 is "FEARLESS" and my life verse… Continue reading Fearless 2013
A news feature in the spring 2012 Bethany College Connection (the alumni newsletter of Bethany College, of which I am an alumna) caught my eye. I will quote from the press release "Candace's Gospel Project": "First-year students in the 'Jesus and the Gospels' course, have a choice for their major assignment: write a research essay,… Continue reading 2012 hand-copied, illuminated Gospel
Is one of your New Year's resolutions to read the Bible in 2013? Would you like to read through the entire book (or, more accurately, the library of 66 books)? Or maybe you're not that ambitious. Whatever your goal, there's a Bible reading plan for you. Below is a list for you to look over… Continue reading Read the Bible in 2013
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