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How Christians Should Read Old Testament Law

How Christians Should Read Old Testament Law

A law about mildew in a house, clothing made with mixed fabrics, or an animal sacrifice can stop you cold. You may wonder what any of it has to do with following Jesus. The Old Testament law is God’s Word, but it was not written as a loose collection of commands...
How to Read Biblical Poetry Without Flattening Its Meaning

How to Read Biblical Poetry Without Flattening Its Meaning

Poetry can make a familiar Bible verse sound simple while carrying more weight than a hurried reading can bear. That is why biblical poetry must be read as God gave it, with images, repeated lines, and a purpose that belongs to the whole passage. Psalm 23 does not...
How to Use a Bible Concordance to Study Scripture

How to Use a Bible Concordance to Study Scripture

A Bible concordance can turn a vague question into a focused search through Scripture, but it won’t do the study for you. When we learn how to use a Bible concordance, we stop treating a word as an isolated clue and begin following it through real passages. The...
How to Choose a Bible Translation for Personal Study

How to Choose a Bible Translation for Personal Study

Many believers own several Bibles and still don’t know which one to use for personal study. When the time comes to choose Bible translation for personal study, the question isn’t which version has the loudest supporters. The question is which translation...
How Bible Cross References Improve Your Study

How Bible Cross References Improve Your Study

Many Bible studies become confusing not because Scripture is unclear, but because verses are pulled from their setting and made to answer questions they were never addressing. Bible cross references can correct that habit when we use them under the authority of the...
How to Trace Biblical Themes Across Scripture

How to Trace Biblical Themes Across Scripture

A single Bible verse can encourage, correct, or answer you. Yet to trace biblical themes is to see how that verse belongs to Scripture’s unified metanarrative of Scripture. Its big story follows the creation fall redemption arc, with Jesus Christ at the center...