by Crystal | Jan 31, 2010 | A Pastor's Heart
Doing the Word, Part 2 January 31, 2010 Drawing on James 1:22-25, last week’s column reminded us to approach the word expectingto change. But it can feel depressing and burdensome to look at our problemsall the time and add stuff to our spiritual “to do” list! Just in...
by Crystal | Jan 24, 2010 | A Pastor's Heart
Doing the Word January 24, 2010 The point of James 1:22-25 is abundantly clear. If you’re not familiar with it,take a sec and look it up. We don’t impress God by how much of the Bible we’veheard. He’s looking for what we’ve done with it. We’re duped if we think...
by Crystal | Jan 17, 2010 | A Pastor's Heart
If there is one key to getting more out of your Bible reading, it’s asking the right questions of the passage you’re reading. This practice gets our minds working, pondering,thinking. If we don’t ask questions, we have the tendency to see only what we expect to...
by Crystal | Jan 10, 2010 | A Pastor's Heart
Do you have a goal when you read your Bible? Is there something in particular that you are looking for—some additional duty, an intriguing factoid, an inspiring verse? Or do you just read to get your reading done? Here’s a suggestion from George Mueller, the...
