Articles - Meeting God

A whole unit or a loose collection of pithy phrases? Proverbs is a unique book and requires a unique approach. Read the whole thing is one sitting, ask the book questions, and look for common themes. Here’s how.

Wisdom literature (Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Job) doesn’t so much tell us what to do as it teaches us how to do it. It’s putting godliness into work clothes. Three simple questions to help you dig into wisdom lit.

Our interview on how to read the Bible well continues with pastors Isaac Hydoski, Jon Smith, and Joseph Stigora. Our editor, Ricky Alcantar, does the question asking.

In this interview you’ll find helpful information (and completely random comments) like:
_How to read the Bible if you’re new to the Bible
_How to read the Bible if it seems boring or lifeless
_How to read the Bible if you want to tackle the Old Testament
_Household mildew

At the New Attitude 2008 conference we sat down with speaker Al Mohler for a few minutes and asked him how he reads the Bible and what principles he’d encourage others to follow as they read. Dr. Mohler talked to us about why the Bible is like coffee, why getting the big picture matters, and how to have a good devotional time reading about the size of the laver.

At the New Attitude 2008 conference we sat down with speaker Mark Dever for a few minutes and interviewed him about how he reads the Bible and what he’s learned about reading the Bible over the years. Mark talked to us about how he decides what to read each week, how to get through an uninspiring devotional day (or week), and how he’d use dead people to encourage people to…

It’s one of those topics that has been written about, talked about, blogged about to no end.

This week I heard a creative consultant on a podcast encouraging creatives to “pray” as part of the creative process. I heard a musician describe her work as “prayer” to God or a higher power. I saw a health magazine article include “prayer” as an important part of well-being.

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In response to Eric’s post on Meeting with God this is the record of my struggle to believe and live truth in my devotional times with God. Believe me, when I started this week I never knew how difficult, or how refreshing, it would be. I don’t share this to tell you to follow my example—because I still struggle in this area too—but I do share it to point you…

Have you ever run out of gas? Have you ever run out of gas twice?

How about 3 times in one week?

Yep. Guilty. 3 times in one week.

It was a full week and I just thought that 2 gallons would get me through it. Nope. It took 3 times to prove that. Should have put 6 in the tank. I know all…

Have you ever been in a group context and you start talking about a subject you know little about—but you talk as though you know a lot about it. And the more you talk the more painfully obvious it is to everyone that you have no idea what you are talking about. With the invention of Google it seems as though everybody is an expert with just the click of…

Everybody has a routine. Routine brings order to a very chaotic morning. Imagine: you wake up at 5:30 am and immediately put on your bathing suit to go play golf with three nuns you met on the street corner. What’s wrong with this picture? It’s way too random. (And nuns don’t hang out on street corners.) Random is great in movies, but routine is where we live. However when it…