Fresh Bread, Fresh Words

I’m studying Philippians . . . I memorized it when I was in college. I’ve taught Bible studies on it. I studied it in-depth nine years ago. And I pull the bread out of the fridge and sniff it, surreptitiously checking for little white spots. Why did I...

New Book! What the Bible Means to Me

This one is an important book to me because I contributed a chapter for it! Over forty people, from famous ones to ordinary ones like me, told how the Word of God has been used in their lives. I posted my chapter on my blog a while back: “The Magnifying Glass of...

He’s Still the Hiding Place

This summer my two teenagers and I had the privilege of spending some evenings listening together to Corrie Ten Boom’s The Hiding Place (mending clothes, brushing the dog’s matted fur as we listened) and then watching the video. It had been maybe a few...

A Brief Timeline of Redemptive History

In our homeschool Bible teaching with Joshua, we’re emphasizing three levels of learning the Bible: Level One: Know those Bible stories. Know them in context. Sometimes in detail. (In our daughter Christiana’s college Bible class, she was surprised at how...