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Join scholar and theologian Larry Richards on a journey through the Old and New Testaments as he explores 21 key stories and themes in Scripture and shows what they reveal to us about God. Whether you are new to reading the Bible or were brought up on its stories, youll come to understand it more deeply than ever beforeand connect in a whole new way to the God who wrote it for you.
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If you want a fresh and insightful overview of the Scriptures, Dr. Larry Richards newest contribution to biblical scholarship, How to Read (and Understand) the Bible, is for you. This refreshing approach to understanding the Scriptures is insightful, stimulating, trustworthy, and creatively instructive. With authentic biblical scholarship, combined with practical applications, you will travel through the entire Bible, gaining new appreciation for Gods great gift to us on every page. Bible students and lay readers alike will gain an enriched perspective and understanding of Gods Word.
DR. GILBERT A. PETERSON
Former president and chancellor of Lancaster Bible College
Perhaps Larry Richards enduring legacy as expressed through the titanic number of books he has published over forty years will be the immeasurable assistance lent to thousands in understanding not only the basic message of Scripture, but also how to interpret and teach it in a way that propels believers into becoming followers in the mission of God. How to Read (and Understand) the Bible is a life-changing book that does just that. Here is an accessible, thoughtful, conceptual, and practical book that every church should use to equip its leaders, small groups, and ministries.
MARK A. LAMPORT
Professor of practical theology of nine theological schools in the US and Europe and coeditor of Encyclopedia of Christian Education and Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States
Larry Richards has devoted his life to the serious study of Gods Word. Although the content of How to Read (and Understand) the Bible reflects the good scholarship behind it, it is not a dry, academic tome. This book is an enjoyable read, just as reading Scripture itself can be. Larrys engaging, almost conversational style of writing makes you feel as if you and he were sitting together for a stimulating conversation about Gods story. As the book takes you through the major themes of the Bible, youll come away with a big-picture perspective that will make your Bible reading more meaningful and more practical for daily Christian living as it was meant to be.
KLAUS ISSLER
Professor of Christian education and theology at Talbot School of Theology, Biola University, and author of Living into the Life of Jesus
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How to Read (and Understand) the Bible: Meeting God in the Book You Love but Never Fully Understood
Copyright 2015 by Larry Richards. All rights reserved.
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All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from Holy Bible, New International Version, NIV. Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. (Some quotations may be from the earlier NIV edition, copyright 1984.) Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Richards, Larry, date, author.
How to read (and understand) the Bible : meeting God in the book you love but never fully understood / Larry Richards.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-1-4143-9182-3 (sc)
1. Bible Reading. I. Title.
BS617.R52 2015
220.61 dc23 2014043869
Build: 2015-04-23 11:16:39
This book is dedicated to Sue, my wife and partner, who for more than thirty years has enriched all Ive written, generously sharing her insights, her suggestions, and her encouragement. I am especially indebted to her for this book, which she insisted I write while she earned her masters in counseling psychology at the Seattle School of Theology and Psychology.
E VER SINCE I consciously committed my life to Jesus Christ in 1951 while serving in the US Navy, I have loved Gods Word. Knowing little about it at the outset, I started a noontime Bible study on my base and was led deeper and deeper into the wisdom of Scripture. I had been familiar with Jesus from my childhood, but as the study group explored the Gospels and Romans, I was gripped by an awareness of Christs ability to transform our lives and give them meaning. In particular, I saw that transformation in the life of a shy, young civilian worker on our base, a woman named Lee. For six months, Lee came to the Bible study every day, but she never said a word. A few years later, when I visited the base after leaving the navy, I was invited to Lees home, where eighteen men and women who had come to know Christ through her witness were gathered. God had used the fruit of a little Bible study I had started to transform and mature the lives of almost twenty people. I now understood the true power of Gods Word to change our hearts.
Following my time in the navy, I attended Dallas Theological Seminary, taught for a time at Wheaton College, and then launched a writing career that to date has produced some 250 books, every one deeply rooted in Scripture.
It may seem strange that after sixty years of study, I would write a book about meeting God in the book you love but never fully understood. But I encounter so many people today who see the Bible as a rule book, or a book packed with stories that teach morals. They believe in Jesus, but dont fully grasp the magnitude of what God is doing in history and in their own lives. So I began to reread the Bible as story the story of Gods purpose in the universe he created, and how we believers fit into Gods story to make his story our story too.
In reading the Bible as story, I discovered for the first time just how intent God is on fashioning an eternal community of love, and that along historys way, he wants us to experience as much of that community of love as we are willing to accept.
In many ways, my understanding of God changed. I was stunned to see the importance of the little, daily choices you and I make. I came to see how, in his sovereign flexibility, God walks through life with us, responding to our prayers and guiding the outcome of the choices we freely make. I came to wonder at the greatness of a God who responds so generously to us, yet never wavers from the grand future embedded in his covenant promises and overall plan.
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