What’s In Your Bible? Questions or Answers? By Beth Demme What do you see when you flip through the pages of your Bible? Do you see highlights? Notes? Randomly placed bookmarks? I invited you to send in photos of your Bibles so I could see, What’s In Your Bible? Your photos taught me a lot. Bibles that are written in and marked …
What’s In Your Bible: Make It Messy
What’s In Your Bible? Go Ahead, Make A Mess in Your Bible By Beth Demme Do you remember when you were in school and you first started using highlighters? At first, it was hard to know what to highlight, right? Eventually, you learned to be judicious and careful with your highlighter. You learned to highlight the snippets that would be meaningful …
What’s In Your Bible: Making the Bible Personal
What’s In Your Bible: Making the Bible Personal By Beth Demme Actors hired by Capital One ask, “What’s In Your Wallet?” We’re rephrasing the question to ask, “What’s In Your Bible?” (Click here to read, What’s In Your Bible? Maybe Your Family History.) Are there changes in your Bible? Have you modified it? Would you like to? Don’t faint. I’m not …
Use the New Testament to Learn the Old Testament
By Beth Demme “A.D. You know … after death,” the white-haired man said in a thick British accent, a camera hanging around his neck. “No,” I offered kindly, woefully inept at remaining silent. “A.D. is an abbreviation for anno domini, the year of our Lord. That’s the birth of Jesus.” He wasn’t convinced. “No, I’m sure that A.D. means after …
Do You Need to Change Your Filter?
By Beth Demme I spend a lot of time in my mini-van. My garnet Honda Odyssey is only a few years old, but I have over 99,000 miles on it. I don’t know where my Odyssey has taken me, but apparently we’ve gone there a lot. Last week the van told me it needed an oil change. I ignored it …
New Welcome Video Released
I’m very happy to share a video with you today, instead of typed words. I’ve just released a new video explaining what my current work, including this website, is all about. Watch it and let me know what you think! Send me an e-mail or find me on Facebook or Twitter.
Maybe You Shouldn’t Try to Read the Bible This Year
By Beth Demme Have you ever decided to read the Bible in a year? How did it go? Did you start at Genesis 1:1 and work your way through to Revelation 22:21? Maybe you’ve intended to read through the Bible in a year but never quite made it. It’s February. Have you already fallen behind in your plan? I have …
The Old Testament is the Story of My Life
By Beth Demme Plenty of people today dismiss the Old Testament as a collection of ancient writings with unknown provenance. I think that’s a mistake. I don’t think we should idolize the Bible, but there’s a lot of room between dismissal and idolatry. I fall somewhere in between, where reverence and belief intersect faith and hope. One of the reasons …
Can I Be Overwhelmed With Joy?
I’ve had an epiphany! Actually, we’re all having another Epiphany. It’s more than a sudden inspiration; it’s a season on the church calendar. It’s the time of year we celebrate the arrival of the Wise Men. The Wise Men were astrologers. They were star and sky readers. A star led the Wise Men to Jesus, but if you read the …
The Birth of Jesus: Bible 100 Style
By Beth Demme In Bible 100, I teach the entire Bible in 100 minutes, or less. My goal is to help you learn the Bible, without telling you what to think. This is a sample of the style I use in that workshop. The birth of Jesus is celebrated by Protestant and Roman Catholic churches on December 25 each year, and …