Guidelines May-August 2025

Guidelines is a unique Bible reading resource that offers four months of in-depth study, drawing on insights of current scholarship. Its intention is to enable all its readers to interpret and apply biblical text with confidence in today's world. Instead of dated daily readings, Guidelines provides weekly units, broken into six sections, plus an introduction and a final section of points for thought and prayer. Topics and contributors 1 Corinthians - Helen Miller Numbers: discipleship in the desert - Helen Paynter God and female imagery in the Old Testament - Johannes J. Knecht James: faith-works as God's new community - Tim Welch Acts 1-9 - Steve Walton Lamentations - Victoria Omotoso War and peace - Valerie Hobbs Hosea - Miriam Bier Hinksman Teachable moments: discipling on the way in Luke's gospel - George Wieland A disabled reading of the healing miracles - Tanya Marlow