7 Commitments of a Forerunner As part of the Sacred Charge you commit to: * Pray Daily: Spending 2 hours in prayer and Word (Book of Revelation once a week for 3 years) * Fast Weekly: Setting your heart to fast 2 days a week as a lifestyle * * Speak Boldly: Standing as a [...]
I was going to write a post entitled “Zen and the Christian”, but today I came across a wonderful series of posts about True Spirituality by John Paul Jackson. If you are not familiar with him, I would say that his church and ministry have the highest combination of maturity and anointing I have come [...]
Lastly I will talk about Bible study option c) reading a small bit of the Bible every day. To understand why I’m not so keen on this method remember my analogy from Part 2, your grandfather’s letters to you. If you were trying to understand those letters would you pick a random number of sentences [...]
Now I will turn to option b, doing topical studies in the Bible. Again, I would point to the length of the Bible and how many things are said in it. By just picking verses at our leisure we can make the Bible say whatever we want it to say. Also we can make the [...]
In the next three posts I felt I should explain what I said in Part 2 about methods of Bible study a bit more, since I’m going against conventional wisdom. To remind you, I said that for most people the best way to understand the Bible was to read it slowly over and over again [...]
A couple more suggestions and we’ll have made a good start. Another way of reading the Bible that I find very helpful is to read it chronologically, meaning in the order of when it was written. You need to understand that the Bible isn’t a compilation of fairy tales or moral teachings put in at [...]
Imagine that at your Grandfather’s funeral you are given ten four page letters that he wrote you with advice on life. How would you go about reading the letters to really understand what your Grandpa was getting at? Would you: Read one sentence per week spending two hours going over the sentence structure and debating [...]
In the next several blog posts I want to talk about how you can come to understand the Bible. First, you need to know that you can understand the Bible. Too often in churches Bible study is seen as an occupation for a few smart, well-educated men. These men get the church platform and use [...]
I was rummaging around YouTube today and came across this interview with Misty Edwards, who is one of my heroes. At around 2:45 she describes what she does when she has a block of time to pray. Very helpful if you’re not sure what to do when you try to pray. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4IiLkXzQiE
Hello everyone. My wife gave me this blog for Christmas so here goes. I’m wanting to post things I think will be helpful to you and that I am excited by. I imagine I’ll be writing mainly on the Christian life, food, music, and soccer since those are the things I enjoy most. The title [...]