Some Video Clips & Selected Readings to help Enrich Your Learning and Reflection. These are organized by week in function of the sermon series on Sundays.

Week 1 - What’s the Story of the Bible?

Monte preached on the global story of the Bible. Although it’s more of a library than one book, there is a story that goes throughout the whole Bible. What is it?

Presbyterian Questions. Presbyterian Answers [PDF]
Chapter 2. The Bible
Being Presbyterian in the Bible Belt [PDF]
Chapter 2. Is the Bible the Literal Word of God, or Just a Long, Boring Book?
Presbyterian Beliefs. A Brief Introduction [PDF]
Chapter 1. Revelation - How We Know of God.
Who's Afraid of Postmodernism. [PDF]
Chapter 3 Where Have All the Metanarratives Gone? Lyotard, Postmodernism, and the Christian Story

Week 2 - Why Isn’t There a Bible 2.0?

Monte preached on how the Bible was put together, by whom and why we don’t keep adding more books to it.

Some readings and videos to engage with how the Bible is a library and how it’s put together.

Readings on the putting-together of the Bible and why we don’t add more books to it today.

What's the Bible? From Presbyterian Questions. Presbyterian Answers [PDF]
This is a great into to the Bible - short, sweet, and funny.
How does the Bible help us Know of God? Presbyterian Beliefs. A Brief Introduction [PDF]
This talk about our understanding of revelation - how God allows Godself to be known.
Evangelicalism. The Path to a New Christianity. Dave P. Gushee
Chapter 3 “Hearing God’s Voice Beyond Scripture” [PDF]
This talks about including readings & learnings that are not in the Bible.
Being Presbyterian in a Dysvangelical America. A Guide to Reclaiming the Good News of God’s Grace. Ted. V. Jr., and Alex Thornburg.
Chapter 7. “Presbyterians are Reformed, and Always Reforming”After [PDF]
This talks about why as Presbyterian we don’t need to add books to the Bible, but rather be open to the Holy Spirit reforming our understanding of scripture. It uses slavery and racicm in the PCUSA as an example.

Week 3 - Should we read the bible literally?

Monte preached on our Presbyterian tradition of reading the Bible contextually more than literally.

Making Sense of the Bible. Rediscovering the Power of Scripture Today. By Adam Hamilton.
Chapter 17. Is the Bible Inerrant and Infallible? [PDF]
Chapter 18. A High View of Scripture? [PDF]
A good introduction to questions about inerrancy, and how we read the Bible as the Word of God - not dictated but communicated.
How to Read the Bible for All It’s Worth by Gordon D. Fee.
Chapter 1 The Need to Interpret. [PDF].
This is a classic text used in seminaries and still a great introduction to why you have to interpret the Bible no just take it at face value or literally.

Week 1 - What’s the Story of the Bible?

Week 2 - Why Isn’t There a Bible 2.0?

Other Helpful Readings