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A good story will grab your attention, stir your emotions, and capture your imagination. The Bible is full of good stories.

Prophecy is not predicting the future but sometimes prophecies include predictions. Here are some tips to help you with them.

Here are some tips to help you work out the main point of a parable.

About one-third of the Bible is written as poetry and good Bible reading distinguishes poetry from prose.

It will help your Bible reading no end if you can appreciate figures of speech.

Should you take everything you read in the Bible literally? Of course not. Some bits are meant to be taken literally others clearly are not.

The Bible was written using the same common-sense logical rules we all use when we string words together to make sentences and paragraphs.

Whatever passage you are studying, make sure you know what every word meant when it was written, not just what it means today.

You wouldn’t do it with any other book, so why do it with the Bible? With any other book you wouldn’t think of starting in the middle....