Jeremy Riley: In a few words

(Part 2 of 4 on Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s classic Life Together) Bonhoeffer viewed life differently.  He saw that the core of ones faith was found in being steeped in God’s Word.  Being rooted in the word shaped the day for the family and individual.  He advocated in “Life Together” to have a dedicated time of song, Scripture, [...]

On Christmas Day, I want to leave us with two pieces.  Chew on these two pieces and I wish you a Merry Christmas. 46 And Mary said, “My soul magnifies the Lord, 47     and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, 48 for he has looked on the humble estate of his servant.     For behold, from now on all generations will call me blessed; [...]

Contemporary American Evangelicalism leads to many different things, both good and bad.  Whenever I heard about the Apocrypha I often tied it with a negative reaction.  Everybody knows that it is not truly Scripture like those Roman Catholics would have us believe!  Instead, it is something that should be removed from our Bibles and taken [...]

People have asked me from time to time how I interpret the Old Testament as a Christian.  There are a lot of commands to keep and festivals to partake in, making it incredibly confusing for a Christian to discern what the point of the Old Testament is.  I like to respond to them with a [...]

I just stumbled across this suggestion for a helpful Bible Memorization program.  For a couple of months now I have been delaying my journey back into memorization techniques that I once used.  I listened to a sermon by NT Wright on this subject and his suggestion to memorize the Epistle to the Ephesians challenged me.  [...]

The great political philosopher Machiavelli once reveled in the time he spent during his free evenings as a farmer.  He said that he would stay in his room and surround himself with his books.  While reading it would be as if he was conversing with departed intellectual giants.  The same can be applied to working [...]

I was asked recently by a family member why they should read other writers than the biblical ones.  After all, if I truly affirmed the Reformational idea of Sola Scriptura, what profit would it be to me to also consult with the likes of John Calvin, Augustine or Thomas Aquinas?  Why can’t I sit in [...]