Book Review: “Musing on God’s Music” by Scott Aniol

I'm currently leading my adult Bible study class at church through a years-long walk through Psalms. I'm reading a number of resources along the way, but the first that I read in full was Scott Aniol's Musing on God's Music: Forming Hearts of Praise with the Psalms. I first read it casually while on vacation …

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Seeing the Bigger Picture

(The following is the April 12 devotional from my Next Step Devotions book. Before reading it, I suggest you read John 5 and pay close attention to verses 1-16.) Jesus occasionally acted on the Sabbath in ways that upset Jewish religious leaders. Through the centuries, leaders had added hundreds of rules to what God spoke through his Word and …

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The Historical Reliability of Scripture

(The following is the March 3 devotional from my Next Step Devotions book. Before reading it, I suggest you read Luke 1 and pay close attention to verses 1-4.) What news sources do you consider reliable? While people’s preferred public media sources may vary, we usually trust what close friends and family tell us. Why? We have relationships with …

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Book Review: “How to Memorize Scripture for Life” by Andrew M. Davis

Scripture memory has been a part of my life for decades. I confess that I went in spurts in earlier years. Some years, I was faithful and memorized about 100 new verses. Other years, I slacked off. What I failed to keep reviewing, I eventually lost. I was probably about 50 before memorization became a …

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