Carry Confetti
A podcast to help you discover how to cultivate a life of hopeful expectation and daily celebration.
I’m Darcie Frost, an Oklahoma girl now living in New Zealand and leading a church with my husband (and our two toddlers in tow). Through weekly episodes released every Monday, I’ll be exploring Christian theology and studies in psychology to better understand the powerful effects of gratitude and hope. No matter what season of life you are in, we could all benefit from a bit more joy infused into those ordinary, everyday moments.
I’ll be tackling questions like: How do I keep believing after so many setbacks? Why hasn’t God answered my prayer yet? How do you know God is good and on your side? How do I find the strength to celebrate others, while walking through grief, disappointment, and pain? What’s the difference between happiness and joy?
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Carry Confetti
Tastes Like Honey: What is the Bible? | Ep. 66
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The Bible to me is not simply medicine for the soul or an instruction book for humanity... it's sweeter than honey dripping from a honeycomb.
The Bible is the best-selling book in all of history with an estimated 5-7 billion copies in print (not including all of the app downloads for a digital Bible), and it's the book that changed my life. And continues to every time I read it.
It's the book that starts to read me the longer I sit with the author.
As I start this new series on how to read the Bible, I ask that you approach it with teachability and the willingness to weigh and consider why this book holds the Guinness World Record for best-selling non-fiction book of all time, why it's the most-translated book in all of history, and why people have died for publishing and distributing it.
In the words of Francis Bacon in regards to reading any book, “Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.”
So, I invite you to weigh and consider the Holy Bible.
Over the next several episodes, I want to answer these questions for you:
- Why should I read the Bible?
- How should I read the Bible?
- What’s stopping me from reading it in that way?
- Which Bible should I read?
- How do I read it for understanding and not just knowledge?
- How is my brain designed to take in information and retain it?
- How has God wired me to learn?
- What are the different levels of reading and which level am I at?
- What are the different styles of writing in the Bible and do I need to read them differently?
- How do I understand the parts and how they’re connected to the whole overarching story?
- How can I move from seeing the Bible as nasty tasting medicine or dry Weetbix and actually (metaphorically) taste honey as I read it?
This is what I wish someone would have taught me when I was young, so sit with me as I now teach you.
Love,
Darcie
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Books Mentioned:
- Living By the Book by Howard G. Hendricks and William D. Hendricks
- How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doreen
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