Almost 01 January I have started a new bible in a year reading plan. And by almost every 30th of January I have stopped or fallen behind. I’m not alone. About 64% of New Year resolutions are abandoned within the first month and only 9% manage to last the whole year [International Journal of Environmental and Public Health]. So, this year I thought I’d try something different. Instead of reading the Bible in a year, I’m doing several 30 day bible reading challenges.
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I finally finished listening to Mark Sayers’s book, “A Non-Anxious Presence–How a Changing and Complex World Will Create a Remnant of Renewed Christian Leaders“. It’s worth a review.
[Read more…] about A Non-Anxious Presence [Book Review]Be Still: a Simple Guide to Quiet Times [Book Review]
I can still remember waking up early one morning, stumbling down stairs and finding my dad on the sofa reading his Bible and praying. He told me it was his “quiet time” and part of his way of connecting with God before the day started. That memory has stayed with me since and now I wake every morning for my own quiet time.
Like most people, I have better and worse seasons and there have been times when I felt like it was more a mindless routine than others. So when I heard that Brian Heasley from 24/7 prayer had published Be Still: A Simple Guide To Quiet Times, I decided to pick up a copy.
[Read more…] about Be Still: a Simple Guide to Quiet Times [Book Review]Gentle and Lowly [Book Review]
Sometime last year, I started noticing that several of my friends on Facebook were all praising one book––Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers. I was intrigued by the string of recommendations, and incorrectly assumed it was something on evangelism. So I grabbed a copy of the audiobook, narrated by the author Dane C. Ortlund and dove in.
[Read more…] about Gentle and Lowly [Book Review]The Top 10 ChurchMag 2020 Posts – Most Read
As we get to the end of another year, I thought it would be great to share the top 10 ChurchMag posts. Of course this has been a pandemic / COVID-19 dominated year. There are many things that have happened in the world and in church space but those reflections will be for another post. For now, here are the top 10 ChurchMag 2020 posts.
[Read more…] about The Top 10 ChurchMag 2020 Posts – Most Read5 Examples of Formal and Dynamic Bible Translations
While the idea of formal and dynamic Bible translations is useful, there are many nuances in translations that don’t fit neatly into the spectrum. In fact, you can even find details where translations that are considered more formal agree more with translations that are viewed as more dynamic than their formal counterparts. So today, I’m looking at five examples of formal and dynamic translations to inspect some of these issues.
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