A Summer Reading List for 2024 You Made It! Students regularly talk to me about wanting to read more during the school year, but after going to multiple classes, reading textbooks, and doing homework, they feel they have little time left for reading good books. While I try to help students to carve out time for reading during the school year, I understand that each season of life presents unique challenges and time restraints. While the school year is a bit chaotic, Summer break is a great time to dig into a few good books. Here I will offer a few suggestions that I hope students will consider. Bible Reading First and foremost, take the extra time to read the Bible this Summer. If you have a solid reading plan already in place, don't allow the extra time you have cause you to lessen the pace and try to catch up on weekends. Find some good friends at your church back home, or a fellow staff member at whatever ministry you may be serving in, and have them encourage you as you ...
Mailbag is a tool I utilize with students of Scripture and theology anytime I have the opportunity to teach. The questions that are sent in are ones that we did not have time for in the moment, or the scope of our passage did not directly answer them. Students email me their questions, I reply with either my own answers, or trusted sources, and then I require that they engage the responses and sources cited before scheduling a meeting with me to discuss further. I am sharing these here for an archive of such questions and responses. Here are the questions... What are some good resources and passages that talk about Biblical self defense? I have been a bit confused on if it is ok to defend yourself when we talk about not avenging and not giving evil for evil. Maybe I am just confusing defense and avenge and maybe this is two separate questions but where could I find some material about that? Along with self-defense, how does loving others connect to defending yourself and/or family...