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Watching the Church in Slovakia Grow Through Local Teaching and Biblical Preaching

2023-01-22 by Todd 1 Comment

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Ever since my early years as a believer I’ve wanted to understand Scripture better. During the M.Div. program at Trinity I couldn’t get enough of the theology or the Bible intro classes. At the end of the M.Div. I felt like much of what I had learned, I really should have learned in Sunday School. Why didn’t we talk more in depth about the Trinity in Sunday School? Why didn’t we open up the book of Genesis the way we did at seminary? I felt like God’s people should have this same access to solid teaching like we got at seminary.

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Filed Under: ministry Tagged With: bible, genesis, slovakia, teaching, theology, Trinity

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How Can the Creation Account in Genesis 1 be Both History and Literature?

2020-10-16 by Todd Leave a Comment

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In my posts on Genesis 1 I say that the creation account is history and that it is literature. Is it possible to cross the impassable divide? At first, it seems the obvious answer is no. Historical fiction, after all, even though it’s cast in a real historical setting, is still fiction.

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Filed Under: muse Tagged With: bible, creation, genesis, historiography, history, literal, literalistic, literature, poetics, science

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If You Want to Understand the Bible You Need to Understand the Sanctuary

2019-03-21 by Todd 1 Comment

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Sometimes reading Scripture can be tough but there are a few skills we can gain that provide a big return on investment in terms of helping us get a feel for how the whole thing fits together. Topping this list of skills is understanding the role of the sanctuary in the plot of the Biblical narrative.

Tired of reading? Doing the dishes? Listen to this post on audio.

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Filed Under: muse Tagged With: bible, motif, plot, reading, sanctuary, scripture, temple

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Forging a Trail Through Scripture: Learning to Read the Bible Better

2019-01-01 by Todd 3 Comments

Last year a few people from our local church in Banská Bystrica asked me to lead a group on how to read and study the Bible. So we started a Bible study club and set out to read the book of Acts together. We learned that the book of Acts works like a story that moves from tension to resolution and that the tension that drives the plot is defined by the programmatic verse in Acts 1:8.

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