Unlike most people I have come across, I am someone who finds the genealogies of the Bible utterly fascinating. One of my main leisure pursuits, for many years, has been family history research and, building on a great deal of careful work done my mother – all without the aid of a computer, it has…
I suspect that the word most uttered by human beings on planet earth over the last few days, in one language or another, is the word happy, as in ‘Happy New Year!’ As I read in a blog post a couple of days ago, “Ask people what they want out of life, and they’ll answer,…
I love it when I see – or am shown – something in God’s Word that I have read a thousand times without noticing! It is one of the great joys of Bible study. It happened again today, as I continued to read through Don Carson’s devotional notes on M’Cheyne’s Bible reading plan that I…
As a follow-up to my two posts about reading through the Bible in a year and doing a more in-depth study of a Bible book, I was planning on doing something on ‘how to study the Bible for yourself’ when I learned that Peter Mead has just begun a series of blogs on that precise…