Author: Mountain Veteran Ministries

Most men who struggle with the Bible aren't struggling because it's too hard. They're struggling because nobody told them how to read it. Hermeneutics is a ten-dollar word for a straightforward idea: every text has rules for how it works. Once you know the basic ones, the Bible opens up in ways...

A lot of men have heard some version of this: "The Bible was put together by powerful men at a church council who decided what got in and what stayed out — and a lot was left out." It makes for a great conspiracy theory. The actual history is more interesting — and more reassuring — than the...