The Good Life: A Life of Faith (Hebrews 11:1-40)
There is so much online material available, let's look at a couple today and evaluate how useful the material is to you as a tertiary student.
Sacred Readings
Suzanne Lederer leads us in connecting with God through Lectio Divina. She explains the process here and she leads us through Hebrews 11:1-6. What do you think of this 20-minute digital experience? Blog what you learnt.
Online magazine articles
The problem with name dropping is that you are never completely sure of what your listener associates with a name. Kenneth Way moves us away from reading Hebrews 11 as a listing from the Hall of Fame and Faith to a deeper contemplation on the nature of God, in Biola Magazine.
(link address http://magazine.biola.edu/article/11-fall/handling-heroes-in-hebrews-11/) Blog about what you have learnt from reading this online article.
Are there any online Christian magazines or blogs you enjoy? Tell us which ones and why. There is a sense in which as a community of fellow believers soaked, in God's Word, we help each other sort out and think through the information overload online by being evaluative (intellectually critical) of each other's choices. This aim is what TSCF calls Deep Thought. I'm sure the editor of Canvas, the TSCF magazine, would welcome student feedback on our articles as well.
Misreadings
I find that one way to think out of the box on issues of faith is to throw a spanner in the works. If you have spent any time at all online you would know about the "Christian lunatic fringe". How would you discern the difference between spanners and these wild "lunatic" misreadings of scripture? * Click here for some ideas.
How does being part of an evaluative interdenominational community help you in the process? To get to know the variety of perspectives found in TSCF/ IFES, many of the TSCF staff workers preach in churches or blog or write articles, often you can find their work online. Together, we challenge each other to catch a glimpse of a good and beautiful BIG God.
This article below is one such spanner in the works. Our passage in Hebrews seems to suggest that we live a life of consistent faith. The spanner is: Could it be that sometimes really trusting someone, requires us to go through a period of doubt? Peter Enns examines doubt as a way into deeper faith here.(link address http://www.patheos.com/blogs/peterenns/2011/10/why-it%E2%80%99s-good-to-doubt-god/) Do you find this article disturbing or helpful? Blog about your thoughts and feelings.
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