A comprehensive article by Jeffrey Arthurs, Professor of Preaching and Communication and Dean of the Chapel at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Massachusetts. Five arguments which Arthurs expands and elaborates. Argument #1: We are commanded to read the Bible publicly. Argument #2: When we read the Bible publicly, we do what the people of …
Timothy Brister, along with the team at Resurgence have invited the internet to memorise the whole book of Philippians by Easter 2011. (That’s at the end of April, so there’s plenty of time) They’ve produced a neat pdf presentation so you can paste each week’s worth of verses on one leaf of a small notebook, …
This has been a wonderful series of posts about the place of reading the Bible aloud in our gatherings. Over eight posts at the Sola Panel blog Scott Newling has sought to unpack the implications of Paul’s exhortation to Timothy: ‘Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation, to teaching’ …
Scott Newling commences a projected series of posts on the Sola Panel by recalling that in ‘1 Timothy 4:13, Paul instructs Timothy as follows: “Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation, to teaching”’. The problem he observes is that in Bible believing churches which utilise relaxed and informal models …
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