Strategies for Christian Living
Strategies for Christian Living
This page carries articles that aim to help our understanding and planning abilities. Its goal is to provide information which can better help us know what the Bible means and what it is saying to us. Our understanding of the strategic goals of Christianity informs our tactics as well as our spiritual aspirations. The more we understand God’s word, the more we understand what our goals should be in the Christian life and how we can best help ourselves and others.
Short Strategic Notes From Our Blog
I Am Barabas
He sits in the dungeon, knowing that before the day is over he will be executed in the most brutal manner that Roman law allows. He’ll be scourged within a hair’s breadth of death, and then nailed to a stake to die slowly and painfully, paying for his crimes of...
Why Do We Study the Word of God?
Many of us study the Bible every day. If we’re not, we should be. But why do we study the Word of God? Many of us frankly enjoy learning more “things” about scripture: more data, a fascinating Hebrew word picture, the meaning in the original...
What the Cavemen Learned
I’m not talking about prehistoric Neanderthal or Cro-Magnon “cavemen” here – I'm actually thinking of two men of God who at different times in biblical history both learned important lessons at the back of a cave.These men were both...
What Forgiving and Forgetting Really Means
We all know the wisdom of the old saying that we should “forgive and forget” and although that exact phrase does not appear in the Bible, it does summarize Biblical principles of forgiveness. There are, of course, many scriptures telling us that we...
Not Rushing to Anger
The Bible gives us good advice on how to deal with feelings of anger - something that we all experience from time to time. However, perhaps the clearest and most detailed example of this strategy comes from an unexpected source which most people miss in their...
Why the Spies?
What do your problems and the spies that we are told God sent into the Promised Land have in common? For that matter, what does a book written fifty years ago by Allen Dulles, the first civilian director of the CIA, tell us about God’s spies and the...
Strategic Articles
When Prayer is Unanswered
Every Christian experiences answered prayer. Every Christian experiences unanswered prayer. It’s easy to appreciate the former and then to move on, but unanswered prayer sticks with us: the illness that persists, the job opening that doesn’t come,...
The Importance of Context in Bible Study
The English word “context” is derived from two Latin words meaning “to weave threads” (contextus, from con- 'together' + texere 'to weave') and so our word signifies that which is connected or woven together. The expression “context is...
Listening to the Word
As Christians, we must listen to both the “word” of God – the Bible (2 Timothy 3:16-17), and the “Word” of God – Jesus Christ (John 1:1). In fact, as Jesus himself showed, the one testifies to the other:...
Five Bible Study Sites Compared
By R. Herbert There are now a good many websites competing for your online Bible study time. Most publishers of individual translations have a dedicated site for their own Bible version, and there are numerous sites which compare multiple translations and offer other...
What Do You Want?
A wise man once said that the first things we do in life are to map our world and to want what we don’t have. But do those things bring us happiness when we get them? In this season of frantic holiday buying and wanting, many find no real happiness in...
The Growing Seed
Perhaps the most difficult concept for the original hearers of the teachings of Jesus to understand was that of the Kingdom of God. Doubtless because of that fact, and its centrality in his message, Christ gave his disciples more parables on the Kingdom than on any...
