December 2011
1 post
Jude
Author: Joel A Moroney
You can print this as a PDF :)
For a long time, I didn’t know what to do with the book of Jude. There were two reasons for that.
Firstly, I was never sure who wrote it and what made them so special as to be included in the Bible. Secondly, it features some pretty freaky stuff and references some books that we don’t consider to be part of the Bible.
But the more time...
November 2011
1 post
1 Thessalonians
You can download this as a PDF to put with your Bible.
Imagine being torn apart from a bunch of people you really, really care about.
You’ve met these people, invested in their lives, become good friends and seen them grow immensely. And then you’re taken away, never to see them again.
This is the situation behind 1 Thessalonians. Paul is writing to a bunch of people he’d led to Christ; they...
September 2011
1 post
Psalms
Download this as a pdf to print and keep with your Bible!
This post is written by Graham Stanton, principal of Youthworks College.
It’s the longest book in the Bible. It’s the Old Testament book that gets quoted in the New Testament more than any other. It’s got the longest chapter in the Bible in it. It’s got the shortest chapter of the Bible in it. It’s easy to find. It’s the Book of Psalms!
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July 2011
4 posts
1, 2 & 3 John
yikes! 3 books in one go! Are you crazy?
nope … these letters were all written together, and they were all written about the same situation: false teachers in the church.
PDF for printy goodness.
That doesn’t sound quite right…
When I hear preachers speaking, whether it’s listening to a Podcast, or watching someone on YouTube, or even reading a Christian book, I sometimes get the...
Proverbs
Author: Kristen Young
You can download this as a PDF.
Here are some questions for you:
What makes someone a good friend? What sorts of people should we listen to? How do you survive in life? You’re about to get your first job: what do you do? How do you find a place to work? How do Christians make a difference in the world?
Proverbs is a book about wisdom. Wisdom is God’s word applied to...
Ephesians
You can download this as a PDF!
One of the big things we can struggle with as Christians, is figuring out how “doctrine” (the big truths of the Christian faith) goes together with our everyday Christian life. In Ephesians, all this becomes clear! In Ephesians, God teaches us how the big truths of the Christian faith should shape our Christian life.
Who was it written to?
In Ephesians 1:1, we...
June 2011
8 posts
Mark
author: Michael Hyam.
You can download a PDF of this post, with the reading plan.
I have always loved Mark’s Gospel.
Here are three reasons:
It’s a great read. Now don’t get me wrong here, but some books in the Bible are a tough read. Romans. Hebrews. Leviticus! You just can’t read those books once and think, ‘I got it!’ Mark on the other hand is pretty straight forward. It’s about Jesus and...
1 Peter
PDF to download, print and keep with your Bible.
As Christians, we will face persecution.
We will be bagged out for being Christians and believing in God. When this happens, it is easy to get upset, confused, or even doubt our faith. 1 Peter is the book for you.
1 Peter is written to remind you of what you believe and how to live with your faith. Peter’s most important advice is to stand fast...
James
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written by Andrew Fairhurst.
It really sucks when you get bagged out for being a Christian.
In those times, it can be easy to just say you’re a Christian and then act like everyone else, because you only need faith in Jesus to be saved, right?
But what is real faith? What does it look like?
Who was it written to?
James is written to ‘the 12 tribes of the...
Nahum
Download this as a PDF if you’d like.
It’s just not fair!
Don’t you just hate it when people get away with the most terrible things? I’ve stopped watching Rugby League closely, because my team struggles against this all the time. The refs don’t like us, and it always felt like opposing teams could get away with late, high shots on our players, but the second any of our players did anything...
Ezra+Nehemiah
download this as a PDF, to print out & put in your Bible
I don’t really like being corrected…
… but later on, I can look back and thank God that I was corrected.
Like, when I’ve unintentionally said something that has upset someone, and then I’ve gotten in trouble. It’s not fun at the time. But later on, I can see how I’ve learnt from that correction to be more careful with my...
Bible Timeline
Reading the Bible well means having a grasp of where each book of the Bible fits in, in the big story of God’s involvement in the world.
Like, if you’re reading Haggai, and you’re wondering why God is going off at his people for building themselves nice houses, while his house still lies in ruins … well it’s because Haggai lived and prophesied after the Exile, when God...
Colossians
you can download this as a PDF, to print and put in your Bible.
Sometimes it seems like Christians miss out on the good life.
Whether it’s atheist friends or teachers giving you a hard time, or non-believing friends who want you to go to parties, get drunk and hook up … basically abandon all the ‘boring’ rules of Christianity.
This kind of opposition can shake our confidence in God, “Are we...
Romans
author: Tamara Taylor.
Romans blows me away every time I read it.
It amazes me because in it, God tells us so much about how big his love is, and it confuses me because sometimes my human-sized brain just can’t comprehend God-sized truth.
Don’t let the big ideas intimidate you. They remind me that God is bigger than I can understand. Romans is such an important book, and if you ask me, it...
May 2011
2 posts
using sixtysix books.
I really want sixtysix books to be useful for Christians.
If you’re thinking of using sixtysixbooks from a smart phone, or having it open on your laptop/iPad/other random thing that can access the internet with while you read your Bible, then sweet.
But if you don’t have one of the above, or find them too much of a distraction when you’re trying to read, then at the bottom of...
Hebrews
When I first started following Jesus, no one told me that I’d get paid out for it. But the fact is, in some form or another, Christians will face persecution.
Have you ever felt like hiding the fact that you’re a Christian, to avoid it? Are you afraid of losing friends if they find out that you’re a Christian? Are you finding life a little bit hard because of your faith in...
sixty-six books
If you’ve stumbled across this … hi.
My name is Matt, and I’m a Christian and a Youth Minister in Sydney, Australia.
I think that one of the most important things about Youth Ministry is to help young people read the Bible well. Not just forming good Bible reading habits, but helping them to understand essential things like context.
There is so much information in the scholarly...