What is the New Testament?
May 16, 2024 | Maureen Wetzel
I love to read. I love to walk over to my bookshelf and grab a book, get comfy on the couch, open it up, and read. I can do that with the New Testament. It starts with stories of a miraculous birth, miracles, raising people from the dead and ends...
How I Study the Bible
May 8, 2024 | Riley Weaver
Meeno Simons was born in the Netherlands in 1496. He grew up on a dairy farm but in his twenties became a Catholic priest. Surprisingly, he accomplished this without ever opening a Bible. Why? He was worried it would confuse him. Thankfully...
What is the Old Testament?
April 29, 2024 | Brad Campbell
You’re sitting by a fire in the middle of the dark night. You’ve just set up your pack-and-go tent after a twenty-mile group hike through the middle of the desert, and you’re parched after another long day’s hike with...
Who Was the Bible Written For?
April 24, 2024 | Riley Weaver
The Bible is a collection of sixty-six books written by around forty known authors in three languages over a period of approximately fifteen hundred years. That means that the first audiences of these books were equally diverse. The thirty-nine...
How Did We Get the Bible?
April 17, 2024 | Brad Campbell
Three times in the New Testament, the Apostle Paul writes about handing down (Greek, paradidomi) things he has received: “that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures” (1 Cor. 15:3), the sacrament of communion (1...