![]() ![]() ![]() Jen Wilkin offers outstanding advice for Bible study, including how to teach your teens to do it. Check it out!įiled Under: Check it Out Tagged With: Bible Study, Bible Study Magazine, Children, Jen Wilkin Can We Love Jesus Without Reading the Bible? The full article gives many more details on Wilkin’s background and vision for training others to study the Bible. This is why Wilkin advocates for young students doing adult-type Bible study. “If high schoolers are capable of doing calculus and physics, they absolutely are capable of grappling with a line-by-line study of the Bible.” Sometimes we think children should only read (the Bible) if they can understand everything they’re reading,” she says, but “we underestimate their ability.” ![]() Reading the Scriptures to them-and then, of course, having them read them themselves-are all formative practices. “Children need early exposure to the Scriptures because they need to see them as a familiar friend. Wilkin flatly rejects the notion that deep knowledge of Scripture is best left to adults and “experts.” “A child who is capable of reading is capable of reading the Bible,” she insists. ![]() Then she challenges us all to consider how to better train our own children in our families and churches: Wilkin describes how she gained a vision for learning from the Bible herself instead of getting drowned in waves of opinions from others. I appreciate this interview with Jen Wilkin on how to improve Bible literacy in our churches and why it is so critical that we do so. ![]()
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Monster is now a major motion picture called All Rise and starring Jennifer Hudson, Kelvin Harrison, Jr., Nas, and A$AP Rocky. ![]() Printz Award recipient, an ALA Best Book, a Coretta Scott King Honor selection, and a National Book Award finalist. Monster is a multi-award-winning, provocative coming-of-age story that was the first-ever Michael L. Presented as a screenplay of Steve's own imagination, and peppered with journal entries, the book shows how one single decision can change our whole lives. This New York Times bestselling novel from acclaimed author Walter Dean Myers tells the story of Steve Harmon, a teenage boy in juvenile detention and on trial. ![]() ![]() ![]() He gave up his secular ambitions in his mid-thirties and took holy orders in the Church of England, spending the rest of his life as the rector of the rural parish of Fugglestone St Peter, just outside Salisbury. Īfter the death of King James, Herbert renewed his interest in ordination. 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