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Watch the Bible come alive in your life like never before.
Many Christians long for a deeper, more meaningful relationship with God's Word-but engaging on our own with the Scriptures can be intimidating. We rely on the writings of others to help us understand what it says, or we read simply to gain information without allowing it to personally touch our lives. But the Bible is a living, breathing, life-changing book, and God wants you to have a first-hand encounter with Him through its pages.
In Holding the Word, Bill Mowry offers good news: you don't need a theological education to engage with Scripture. Mowry unpacks five spiritual practices-hearing, reading, studying, memorizing, and meditating-that will help you personally encounter God every time you open your Bible. This multi-sensory, relationally-rich Bible reading and discipleship tool will transform your relationship with the Author of Scripture.
- Discover a whole-body experience of the Bible using your senses,
- Learn from contemporary teaching and brain theory on why relational connection is so important for your walk with God,
- Develop a lifestyle of integrating the Bible into every aspect of your daily life, leading to personal transformation and spiritual growth and maturity.
Let God's Word saturate every aspect of your being. Immerse yourself in the timeless truths of the Bible and discover the abundant life that comes from living and loving God's Word.
Many Christians long for a deeper, more meaningful relationship with God's Word-but engaging on our own with the Scriptures can be intimidating. We rely on the writings of others to help us understand what it says, or we read simply to gain information without allowing it to personally touch our lives. But the Bible is a living, breathing, life-changing book, and God wants you to have a first-hand encounter with Him through its pages.
In Holding the Word, Bill Mowry offers good news: you don't need a theological education to engage with Scripture. Mowry unpacks five spiritual practices-hearing, reading, studying, memorizing, and meditating-that will help you personally encounter God every time you open your Bible. This multi-sensory, relationally-rich Bible reading and discipleship tool will transform your relationship with the Author of Scripture.
- Discover a whole-body experience of the Bible using your senses,
- Learn from contemporary teaching and brain theory on why relational connection is so important for your walk with God,
- Develop a lifestyle of integrating the Bible into every aspect of your daily life, leading to personal transformation and spiritual growth and maturity.
Let God's Word saturate every aspect of your being. Immerse yourself in the timeless truths of the Bible and discover the abundant life that comes from living and loving God's Word.
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"Bill brings new eyes for old scenery to those who are just encountering the Bible for the first time or to those who want a fresh start to develop new habits. A seasoned Bible reader, he here introduces wise, often countercultural choices maximizing our reading and comprehension-the next best thing to having Bill in the room with you. His invitation to become an artist in lost arts informs with the aid of poets and philosophers, butchers and professionals; aiming for simplicity, Bill casts a wide net with his own personal experiences, metaphors, and examples."
Sam Meier, professor emeritus at the Ohio State University
"This is a book about love. It is a love story about loving God so much that you want to hold his Word. Bill takes an old Navigator illustration, the Word Hand, and presents it in a fresh way with personal stories and helpful tools. This is the kind of book you can use with your church life group or your ministry leadership team or for your own personal development. May God use it to set you and others on this journey of love. I always wanted to help people have this kind of heart for the Word, but I didn't have the words to express it until I read Bill's book."
Mike Whitney, Northeast division director for Disciplemakers for Life, The Navigators
"Bill takes the simplest directives of Scripture and makes them seem like the wisest and healthiest practices a person could pursue. Bill draws on science, popular culture, psychology, theology, Greek, and personal experience to show that the directives of Scripture are not cold commands to be dutifully followed but life-giving invitations to community and joy. Bill reminds me of the scribe who "brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old" (Matthew 13:52, esv). His words are equally at home in my college psychology classes and in my adult Sunday school class."
Charles Dolph, PhD, senior professor of psychology at Cedarville University