Fresh from The Word 2024 - Print

Fresh from The Word 2024: Daily Bible Studies from Around the World

Edited by David Painting

Publishing: 17 Aug 2023
Publisher: SPCK Publishing
384pp, Soft cover
ISBN: 9780281089888

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Fresh from The Word 2024 helps us to build the discipline of Bible reading into our lives so we are grounded in God's word and our faith may deepen and develop. By offering accessible and engaging material, it aids our understanding of the Bible and helps us understand it from different Christian perspectives.

Bringing together theologians, scholars, creative writers, church leaders and activists from around the world, Fresh from The Word 2024 offers notes, prayers and further thought suggestions for every day of the year.

• What will the world will be like in a year’s time?
• What changes will we have seen, what global events will be fresh in our thoughts?
• What highs and lows will we have encountered, what surprises will we have had that bring unexpected joy?
• And in the midst of all those things, how will we make sense of it all?

That’s where Fresh from The Word comes in!

This edition tells the whole story of the Bible, so we have a framework in which to better understand each part.

In addition, readings through 1 Chronicles culminate with Solomon building the Temple, and those in Mark and Luke show us how the Master Builder came and lived amongst us. We see how God began to build his church, looking at leaders in the New Testament, and how Paul encouraged one of those leaders as we read his letters to Timothy.

And when the building gets broken, we study how to be reconciled, with Nehemiah offering a worked example of how God uses his people to rebuild. Finally, the Song of Solomon reveals the aim of it all – intimate, loving relationship with God.

About the editor David Painting

A pastor at heart, David has served in pastoral roles ranging from those in small rural settings to large urban churches in the UK. He is currently pioneering and co-leading a House Church. Having led the YWAM Relief and Development Discipleship Training school (DTS), he continues to serve YWAM, teaching on DTS’s and is the author books to support Christian teaching and preaching.

Prior to this, he was a YWAM missionary serving Romania shortly after the revolution and working in rural settings across the country. David and his wife Janet have ministered in the Balkans, Northern Europe, North and South America, South East Asia, the Middle East and Africa.