I use these four terms, know, trust, apply, and teach the Bible to describe the ministry of Bible805. I’d now like to share what I mean by them in terms of what is available for you in the Bible805 ministry based on each term:

KNOW the Bible

I want to help you simply get to know the content of the Bible and from that the God of the Bible. It all starts there.

Because knowing is foundational to everything else, I emphasize again and again reading the Bible and specifically reading through the Bible in chronological order, and doing it every year.

There are many negative voices against that, even in church today—that people already know what’s in the Bible (few actually do), that reading frequently is legalistic, that too frequent reading leads to it being done without thinking about it, on and on. I do not think these objections are valid, and my recommendation is to read your Bible or listen to it; the point being to get its content inside you every day. [Read more…]