Bible Study
Starting at Genesis is the most common mistake. Here is a reading order that works, how much time to set aside, what to do with the hard passages and how not to stall in Leviticus.
Ruth Callaway ·
Bible Study
The Bible is not a dream dictionary and never assigns a fixed meaning to a dream symbol. Here is what it does contain: a handful of specific dreams, and an interpreter who says every time that the meaning is not his own.
Ruth Callaway ·
Bible Study
The Bible in a year, the New Testament in 90 days, the Gospels and Psalms in 30: what each plan asks of you, how long it takes daily and the three reasons most people quit.
Ruth Callaway ·
Bible Study
Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit appears in three Gospels and in one specific scene. Here is the literal text, what Mark 3:30 says the accusation was, and how each Christian tradition defines the sin today.
Ruth Callaway ·
Bible Study
Spaced repetition, handwriting, first-letter drills and three more tested techniques for memorizing verses — and still remembering them months later.
Ruth Callaway ·
Bible Study
A repeatable method for studying a passage without a teacher: choose the unit, read it whole, observe before interpreting, ask the context questions, cross-check, compare translations, write one sentence.
Ruth Callaway ·
Bible Study
Size, frequency, what to study first, the four-question structure that keeps a discussion moving, and what to do about the person who talks too much and the person who never does.
Ruth Callaway ·
Bible Study
Thirty-nine books and twenty-seven, written centuries apart in different languages — what separates them, why the book lists differ between churches, and the four threads that tie them together.
Ruth Callaway ·
Bible Study
The Bible names some of its writers, leaves others anonymous, and mentions two secretaries by name. Here is what the text says about its own production, and how sixty-six or more scrolls became a single volume.
Ruth Callaway ·
Bible Study
A psalm, a proverb, a law, a letter and an apocalypse make different kinds of claim. What each genre in the Bible is doing, the mistake each one invites, and how to tell them apart on sight.
Ruth Callaway ·
Bible Study
Two translations of the same verse can differ over the manuscript behind them, an idiom that does not survive, or a choice the receiving language forces. Here is what happens underneath.
Ruth Callaway ·
Bible Study
Six specific plans with the arithmetic behind each one — chapters a day, minutes a day, where each plan breaks — and the five rules that decide whether you are still reading in March.
Ruth Callaway ·