Read the Bible in 2013
Let the Bible change you in 2013 Is one of your New Year’s resolutions to read the Bible in 2013? Would you like to read through the entire book (or, more accurately, the library of 66 books)? Or maybe...
View Article2012 hand-copied, illuminated Gospel
A news feature in the spring 2012 Bethany College Connection (the alumni newsletter of Bethany College, of which I am an alumna) caught my eye. I will quote from the press release “Candace’s Gospel...
View ArticleFearless 2013
Fearless on the mountaintop because of the fence that keeps us from going over the edge. (View from Mount Maxwell, Salt Spring Island, B.C., August, 2012) I have for about a decade now, begun the new...
View ArticlePray the Bible
Do you ever use Bible words in your prayers? There are several ways to do this. You can pray complete prayers as they are written. Some well known Bible prayers are the Lord’s Prayer (Matthew 6:9-13),...
View ArticleHow the #StrangeFire conference confirms my continuationism
John MacArthur’s Strange Fire Conference of just over a week ago was a bit of a shaker to the evangelical culture of North America and England. In it MacArthur and his colleagues at Grace To You Church...
View ArticleNew Spirit-Filled Life Bible (NIV) – Kindle version (review)
New Spirit-Filled Life Bible-NIV-Signature by Jack Hayford My rating: 5 of 5 stars I was excited when I found the New Spirit-Filled Life Bible (NIV) offered for review by Thomas Nelson as an e-book. I...
View ArticleNIV First-Century Study Bible (review)
NIV First-Century Study Bible: Explore Scripture in Its Jewish and Early Christian Context by Kent Dobson My rating: 4 of 5 stars As someone who writes a bit of biblical fiction, the overview...
View ArticleComplete Guide to Bible Journaling (review)
Complete Guide to Bible Journaling: Creative Techniques to Express Your Faith by Joanne Fink My rating: 5 of 5 stars Before I got this book, I had only a vague idea there was such a thing as Bible...
View ArticleA new focus—Bible Journaling
For the last little while things have been quiet on this blog as I haven’t been reading and reviewing as many books as I used to. However, the discovery of a new “art”—Bible journaling—will be changing...
View ArticleIS IT KIND? #BibleJournaling
Mother’s Day has just passed and I would be surprised if, in the last weekend of honouring mothers, you haven’t bumped into some reference to the model mother and wife of Proverbs 31. In a Bible...
View ArticleCasting out Fear #BibleJournaling
Hi! It’s Tuesday again–already!– and time for another Bible art journaling project. The challenge: In the Rebekah Jones Original Bible Art Journaling Challenges that I’ve been getting, Week 7 focused...
View ArticleWe need the rain! #BibleJournaling
Who would think, after the long, cold, wet winter and spring we’ve had, that our province (B.C.) would be panting for rain? Yet the hundreds of wildfires that have been burning for several weeks now...
View ArticleHospitality #BibleJournaling
Are you the kind of person who likes surprises thrown into your day? Or are you a scheduler who prefers to have your day outlined in your planner and then proceed according to plan? I’m definitely the...
View ArticleWe’re all works in progress #BibleJournaling
If you love the Bible, I’m sure you have some favourite verses. I know I do. One of mine is Jeremiah 29:11. Rebekah R. Jones’ Bible Art Journal project for this verse is HERE and gorgeous (as usual)....
View ArticleListen #BibleJournaling
At the beginning of each year I choose a word for the year. My word for 2017 is LISTEN. I also always choose a Bible verse to go with that word. My verse for 2017 is John 10:3,4, where Jesus talks...
View ArticleA resolution for 2018 #BibleJournaling
HAPPY NEW YEAR! Are you all set for 2018… new calendars up, dreams and goals written down, diet started? Just kidding! It’s early days, I know. Still, it’s not too soon to start thinking about what we...
View ArticleFree to fly (#BibleJournaling)
Romans 8—what a great chapter about freedom in Christ! It starts out: “So now there is no condemnation to those who belong to Christ Jesus. And because you belong to him, the power of the life-giving...
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