Stop reading the Bible backwards

We are the most resourced generation of Bible readers in history, and one of the least literate. By nearly every measure, the church’s grasp of its own Scriptures keeps thinning.

You’ve read the Bible. But have you read it like this?

Eight out of ten Americans call themselves Bible believers. Fewer than half can name the first five books. Sixty percent cannot name even five of the Ten Commandments. And according to researchers who have tracked this for decades, it is getting worse every year.

His rabbi warned him: Don’t come to Israel

The Prophet Isaiah did not describe a single dramatic ingathering. He described something more like a steady stream. Young people packing bags and boarding planes, leaving families and familiar streets, stepping off into a country where they don’t yet speak the language or understand the culture, and building a life there anyway.