A Couple of Blog Series to Enjoy

Michael Spenser (imonk) has been doing a series on the Gospel of Mark that is worth following. After 7 posts he is only through verse 15.

1. Why Study Mark?
2. The Beginning
3. The Forerunner
4. The Baptism
5. The Temptation
6. The Message (Part 1)
7. The Message (Part 2)

Also Jay Guin has been reviewing Scot McKnight’s new book Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible about how we read the Bible and how we apply what we find. I was going to spend more time reviewing the book myself but since he has done such a fine job why reinvent the wheel for now?

1. Introduction
2. What is a Blue Parakeet?
3. Reading with Tradition
4. The Bible as Story
5. Wiki-stories
6. The Story’s Plot
7. Relational Reading
8. Missional Listening
9. Discerning
10. End Notes
11. Restoration Movement Parakeets
12. The Story and Our Salvation
13. How Things Could Have Been Different – Race
14. How Things Could Have Been Different – Division
15. The Sermon on the Mount
16. How to Teach Hermeneutics