Welcome back to the podcast and welcome back to talking about our Bible reading plan this year.

We started the new year looking at the spiritual battles we must overcome in our Bible reading.

That was APJ 2112, a wonderful episode with all sorts of great advice for how to read the Bible in a year.

Just one of many episodes

on Bible study principles from our 13-year history on the podcast, specifically in the epistles,

and how to break down a paragraph from the Bible to its individual statements, to its propositions,

to determine how those propositions relate to one another logically to follow the flow of a text.

For a sampling of other episodes, to help you read your Bible better, see the Aspester John book on pages 1 to 46,

the longest section in the book, that first section, all devoted to reading your Bible better.

As we find ourselves in the second half of January, we are in the

process of reading Genesis 37 to 50 together. 14 captivating chapters about the life of Joseph,

world famous stories, really. And as we read those chapters, we're trying to understand the

value of the Bible's narratives for our own lives. As we do,

here's the question from Nicholas, who lives in Ontario, Canada, who is I gather a pastor.

Hello, Pastor John. I thank you for your tireless work on this podcast. I'm currently listening

on Audible to your book, Reading the Bible Supernaturally. It has been such a wonderful

refresher on why to read the Bible

and how to focus my reading and study for personal devotion and sermon prep. My question is regarding

narratives. You make the point that your revolution in reading came when you discovered that the

Bible's authors were making arguments and that tracing those

arguments well was key to understanding the author and thus God's intention in the Word.

I see how this applies to the epistles of the New Testament and in your look at the book

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