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In a Spiritual Dry Season? I'm In and Out of Them Too
A dry season is a stretch where you're doing everything right and feeling none of it. It's normal, it's survivable, and it might be saying something worth hearing.
The SOAP Bible Study Method: How I've Done My Devotions for 15 Years
SOAP stands for Scripture, Observation, Application, Prayer. A youth pastor taught it to me when I was a brand-new believer, and it's still how I meet God most mornings.
Myers-Briggs Bible Characters: Why Every List You Find Disagrees
Search for the Myers-Briggs type of a Bible character and you'll get a confident answer. Search twice and you'll get two. Here's why, and what the exercise is still good for.
ISTP Bible Characters: Four People Who Wanted to See It Work
Scripture never assigns anybody four letters, so nobody in it is an ISTP. It does keep telling stories about people who needed evidence, or who fixed the problem while everybody else was still discussing it.
ISFP Bible Characters: Four People Who Served God With Their Hands
Scripture doesn't assign four-letter types. It does spend an extraordinary amount of space on who wove what, who cut which stone, and what colour the yarn was.
ISFJ Bible Characters: Four People Who Made Sure It Was Done
Scripture doesn't hand out four-letter types. It does keep stopping to record what somebody made, cooked, prepared or arranged, which is unusual for a document mostly about kings and prophets.
INTP Bible Characters: Four People Who Checked It First
Scripture never assigns anybody four letters. It does contain a Gospel that opens with its research method, a group commended for fact-checking an apostle, and a man who argued with God for thirty-five chapters and was told he had spoken rightly.
INTJ Bible Characters: Four People Who Played a Very Long Game
Scripture doesn't assign anybody four letters, so nobody in it is an INTJ. What it does contain is people who could hold a plan for decades and did.
INFP Bible Characters: Four People Who Said the Unedited Thing
Scripture never assigns anybody four letters. It does contain people who felt everything at full strength and told God about it without softening any of it.
INFJ Bible Characters: Four People Who Saw It Before Anyone Else
Nobody in scripture took a personality test, so nobody in it is an INFJ. What the Bible has is people who perceived something early, kept it quiet, and had to work out what to do with it.