Bible reading

Lectio Divina - Readings to Prime for Sunday

Lectio Divina - Readings to Prime for Sunday

To prime yourselves for Sunday’s exercise on Lectio Divina, I’m sending you two readings over two days from the same chapter. The excerpt below is taken from Sacred Rhythms‒arranging our lives for spiritual formation by Ruth Hayley Barton. The chapter title is, SCRIPTURE: Encountering God through Lectio Divina. This is not the full chapter and I have shortened the two sections and highlighted five lines. There are another two helpful paragraphs, shorter that what you have below, titled Moving from Head to Heart and Encountering God in Scripture. I will send these two through by Saturday and you will get other notes on Sunday, at our meeting, which guide you through the exercise step by step with a short Scripture passage of 6-8 verses maximum.

Connecting with God through His Word: Part One

Connecting with God through His Word: Part One

Over the next 21 days, we will be experimenting with various ‘means of grace’ so that we can see Jesus more clearly so that we may draw on his grace all the more and thereby live in greater intimacy with God. To start us off, Craig gives some helpful insights on how we can best connect with God through reading the Bible.