Biblical Context Matters

Have you ever sat down to read your Bible and wondered if it will ever make any sense? Have you scoured bookcases and websites looking for answers to your questions about God's Word? You're not alone, my friend! So why don't we open up our Bibles together to intentionally study Scripture from the perspective of the original audience? It is there we'll find confidence in the context. This week, Bre...

Have you ever sat down to read your Bible and wondered if it will ever make any sense? Have you scoured bookcases and websites looking for answers to your questions about God's Word? You're not alone, my friend! So why don't we open up our Bibles together to intentionally study Scripture from the perspective of the original audience? It is there we'll find confidence in the context. This week, Glo...

Have you ever sat down to read your Bible and wondered if it will ever make any sense? Have you scoured bookcases and websites looking for answers to your questions about God's Word? You're not alone, my friend! So why don't we open up our Bibles together to intentionally study Scripture from the perspective of the original audience? It is there we'll find confidence in the context. This week, Min...

Have you ever sat down to read your Bible and wondered if it will ever make any sense? Have you scoured bookcases and websites looking for answers to your questions about God's Word? You're not alone, my friend! So why don't we open up our Bibles together to intentionally study Scripture from the perspective of the original audience? It is there we'll find confidence in the context. This week, Min...

Have you ever sat down to read your Bible and wondered if it will ever make any sense? Have you scoured bookcases and websites looking for answers to your questions about God's Word? You're not alone, my friend! So why don't we open up our Bibles together to intentionally study Scripture from the perspective of the original audience? It is there we'll find confidence in the context. This week, Int...

Have you ever sat down to read your Bible and wondered if it will ever make any sense? Have you scoured bookcases and websites looking for answers to your questions about God's Word? You're not alone, my friend! So why don't we open up our Bibles together to intentionally study Scripture from the perspective of the original audience? It is there we'll find confidence in the context. This week, our...

Today’s episode was beautifully written by one of the Intentional Filling’s newest Writing Team members, Joy Moore of Winchester, Virginia, who lives with the love of her life for the past 33 years, her husband Harold.  She is the mother of five adult daughters and two sons-in-love.  Both her desire to write and to follow Jesus began when she was in the 6th grade, which she doesn’t think...

Today’s episode was beautifully written by one of Intentional Filling’s newest Writing Team members, Lynne Modranski, a singer, songwriter, and soon-to-be author from Steubenville, Ohio.  She is a lover of words, both in writing and editing, and leads worship alongside her pastor husband, children, and grandchildren. I’m excited to share Lynne’s call to a deeper prayer life with you, to pray...

Each of us has a list of colossal moments in our lives that mark us, change us, and set a true turning point. Such as the events of 9/11, graduation from college, moving into our first place, and experiencing our first (and hopefully last) global pandemic. They are the context markers of our lives. Learn how a shift in perspective can help you find confidence in the collection of God's colossal mo...

Today’s episode was beautifully written by one of the Intentional Filling’s newest Writing Team members, Joy Moore of Winchester, Virginia, who lives with the love of her life for the past 33 years, her husband Harold.  She is the mother of five adult daughters and two sons-in-love.  Both her desire to write and to follow Jesus began when she was in the 6th grade, which she doesn’t think...

The Middle Eastern Lens was first brought to us through Jesus & Women Study.  Not familiar to you?  Check out episodes 23 thru 33!  It helped us to better learn about the heart and character of Jesus through learning about His world in the 1st-century and to begin to look at the words in the Bible from the perspective of the original audience. Now we have an opportunity to once...

The Middle Eastern Lens was first brought to us through Jesus & Women Study.  Not familiar to you?  Check out episodes 23 thru 33!  It helped us to better learn about the heart and character of Jesus through learning about His world in the 1st-century and to begin to look at the words in the Bible from the perspective of the original audience. Now we have an opportunity to once...

The Middle Eastern Lens was first brought to us through Jesus & Women Study.  Not familiar to you?  Check out episodes 23 thru 33!  It helped us to better learn about the heart and character of Jesus through learning about His world in the 1st-century and to begin to look at the words in the Bible from the perspective of the original audience. Now we have an opportunity to once...

The Middle Eastern Lens was first brought to us through Jesus & Women Study.  Not familiar to you?  Check out episodes 23 thru 33!  It helped us to better learn about the heart and character of Jesus through learning about His world in the 1st-century and to begin to look at the words in the Bible from the perspective of the original audience. Now we have an opportunity to once...

The Middle Eastern Lens was first brought to us through Jesus & Women Study.  Not familiar to you?  Check out episodes 23 thru 33!  It helped us to better learn about the heart and character of Jesus through learning about His world in the 1st-century and to begin to look at the words in the Bible from the perspective of the original audience. Now we have an opportunity to once...

The Middle Eastern Lens was first brought to us through Jesus & Women Study.  Not familiar to you?  Check out episodes 23 thru 33!  It helped us to better learn about the heart and character of Jesus through learning about His world in the 1st-century and to begin to look at the words in the Bible from the perspective of the original audience. Now we have an opportunity to once...

The Middle Eastern Lens was first brought to us through Jesus & Women Study.  Not familiar to you?  Check out episodes 23 thru 33!  It helped us to better learn about the heart and character of Jesus through learning about His world in the 1st-century and to begin to look at the words in the Bible from the perspective of the original audience. Now we have an opportunity to once...

"When reading the Bible, have you ever skipped over a verse, because it just didn't make any sense? 🤨 The footnotes or cross-references don't lend a whole lot more help decipher its meaning, so you just keep reading, figuring that it must not be important. The word "glean" in Ruth 2:2 had been lost on me for many years..." Blog post by Bree Blum - - - Follow along at the blog , or on social media...

"Jesus is telling us that His purpose in coming was not to nullify the Old Testament, including the Seven Feasts but rather to fulfill everything the feasts were designed to teach God’s people." This is a quote from the author, Erin Davis, who we've been blessed to learn from these last eight weeks through her study, 7 Feasts: Finding Christ in the Sacred Celebrations of the Old Test...

What if you could read one chapter of Scripture like you were talking with your best friend about the flashbacks that were shared in your favorite Netflix series, that helped you better understand the main character? Follow along with our 8-week online study of 7 Feasts by Erin Davis and start making those connections between the OT & JC.  Old Testament and Jesus Christ, that is.  Di...

What if you could read one chapter of Scripture like you were talking with your best friend about the flashbacks that were shared in your favorite Netflix series, that helped you better understand the main character? Follow along with our 8-week online study of 7 Feasts by Erin Davis and start making those connections between the OT & JC.  Old Testament and Jesus Christ, that is.  Di...

What if you could read one chapter of Scripture like you were talking with your best friend about the flashbacks that were shared in your favorite Netflix series, that helped you better understand the main character? Follow along with our 8-week online study of 7 Feasts by Erin Davis and start making those connections between the OT & JC.  Old Testament and Jesus Christ, that is.  Discover the...

What if you could read one chapter of Scripture like you were talking with your best friend about the flashbacks that were shared in your favorite Netflix series, that helped you better understand the main character? Follow along with our 8-week online study of 7 Feasts by Erin Davis and start making those connections between the OT & JC.  Old Testament and Jesus Christ, that is.  Discover the...

What if you could read one chapter of Scripture like you were talking with your best friend about the flashbacks that were shared in your favorite Netflix series, that helped you better understand the main character? Follow along with our 8-week online study of 7 Feasts by Erin Davis and start making those connections between the OT & JC.  Old Testament and Jesus Christ, that is.  Discover the...

What if you could read one chapter of Scripture like you were talking with your best friend about the flashbacks that were shared in your favorite Netflix series, that helped you better understand the main character? Follow along with our 8-week online study of 7 Feasts by Erin Davis and start making those connections between the OT & JC.  Old Testament and Jesus Christ, that is.  Discover the...