“Timothy unfolded the papyrus letter, and began to read. ‘Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus.’ ‘So he’s alive,’ Timothy thought. He read the letter. ” I stopped reading. I wanted to hear other people’s voices in the study. “We always study Paul’s letters a phrase at a time, but they were letters, read out loud, […]

I started reading to our Bible study group. “Timothy was praying when the mail arrived. Or, more accurately, when the courier came. “He had been praying for Paul, as he always did. He had no idea whether Paul was still alive. The messages carried out of Rome said that he was surviving the trials, but […]

(See The story of a Bible study for the start of this story) “What’s next?” Dave said. It was the last night of our study of Nehemiah. My friends and I had been talking about the conversations I had with Nehemiah. It was a challenging study. We looked differently at the book, at the Old Testament, […]

People learn by doing, by participating in the task. But that’s hard to do, sometimes, with Bible reading. We hear all the time in church that we should read the Bible. We read all the time on Facebook that Bible reading is at an all time low. And so we say, “read”. But most of […]