This quiz is based on the last several weeks of Un•jar•gon•ed. If you get a question wrong, take the time to go back and read the article linked to each quiz question. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to drop me a line at info@bibledirectionforlife.com.
Hard as it may be for those who know me now to believe, as a child I used to sing specials with my family, both at our own church and around the country when we traveled. From the very beginning it was drilled into me that, when someone complimented me, I was to say, “Praise…
If there is one fact, or doctrine, or promise in the Bible, which has produced no practical effect upon your temper or conduct, be assured that you do not truly believe it.
Edward Payson, Memoir Volume One, (J. & J.L. Gihon, 1851), 469
Chapter Thirteen—Flattering Enemies and Renewed Trust Though Christian and Hopeful both had moments of weakness, they were not always weak in the same way. Without Hopeful, Christian would have met his end in Doubting Castle; without Christian, Hopeful would have come to grief in the Enchanted Ground. The narrow way is no place for…
For 100 Years, Planned Parenthood Has Silenced Millions Of Women “Planned Parenthood has consistently claimed to ‘care’ for women and champion ‘women’s rights’—yet they silence any woman who thinks women deserve better than Planned Parenthood… Women deserve better than Planned Parenthood.” Prone to Wander “A tender conscience is the fruit of word-enriched cultivation. A tender…
I. Glorious things of thee are spoken, Zion, city of our God! He, whose word cannot be broken, Form’d thee for his own abode: On the rock of ages founded, What can shake thy sure repose? With salvation’s walls surrounded, Thou mayst smile at all thy foes. II. See the streams of living…
The past several weeks of unjargoned have covered a selection of the “jargon” used by biblical scholars. While we will certainly come back to this in a later series, we have reached the end of this segment—which means that next week it is time for our quiz! If you have missed some of the terms,…
Your problem is bigger than you think. Now I must confess, since have no way of knowing who might be reading this, I don’t know what your problem might be. It could be as minor as a hangnail or as devastating as cancer, as temporary as (most) power outages or as permanent as the death…
All human communities live out of some story that provides a context for understanding the meaning of history and gives shape and direction to their lives. If we allow the Bible to become fragmented, it is in danger of being absorbed into whatever other story is shaping our culture, and it will thus cease to…
Chapter Nine—Refreshment at God’s River Christian and Hopeful’s reflections on the monument to Lot’s wife are a model of how to respond to those that have fallen to destruction. The failures of others should always lead us to self-examination rather than self-congratulation. If we escape the temptations that have caused others to fall, it…
