Guidelines January to April 2010

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Guidelines is a unique Bible reading resource that offers four months of in-depth study written by leading scholars. Contributors are drawn from around the world, as well as the UK, and represent a stimulating and thought-provoking breadth of Christian tradition.

Instead of the usual dated daily readings, Guidelines provides weekly units, broken into at least six sections, plus an introduction giving context for the passage and a final section of points for thought and prayer.

On any day you can read as many or as few sections as you wish, to fit in with work or home routine. As well as a copy of Guidelines, you will need a Bible. Each contributor also suggests books for further study.

Published every four months (in January, May and September), commissioned by Canon Dr Jeremy Duff and edited by Lisa Cherrett.

Contributors in this issue:

Janet Fletcher is Team Vicar in the Walton Team, Liverpool, and Hon. Chaplain at Liverpool Cathedral. She is involved in Spiritual Direction within the Diocese, and leads courses in prayer and spirituality. Her book Pathway to God: Following the Way in Prayer was published by SPCK in 2006. In this issue Janet will be discussing prayer in busy lives.

Mike Butterworth has served with CMS in India as a college teacher, pastor and course writer to The Association for Theological Education by Extension. He had been involved in ministry training, back in Britain, since 1980. He is priest-in-charge of Broughton Community Church, Aylesbury. Mike will be writing about deceit in God's service in this issue.

Jeremy Duff is Director of Lifelong Learning in Liverpool Diocese and Canon at Liverpool Cathedral, as well as being the Commissioning Editor of Guidelines. His latest book, Meeting Jesus: Human Responses to a Yearning God, was published by SPCK in 2006. Jeremey will be writing on Luke 3-6 in this issue.

Ruth Hassall works for CPAS as a Leadership Development Adviser, heading up the Growing Leaders programme. She has written two books for BRF: Ready to Lead, a pratical guide to leadership for 14-18s, and Growing Young Leaders, a practical guide to mentoring teens. In this issue Ruth writes about the challenge of leadership.

Grace Emmerson was for many years involved in Old Testament teaching in the University of Birmingham and the Open Theological College. One of her main interests is the teaching of Hebrew. She is the author of Nahum to Malachi in BRF's People's Bible Commentary series, and this is what she will be discussing in this issue.

John Proctor works for the United Reformed Church, teaching the New Testament to students in Cambridge and beyond. Before that he was a parish minister in Glasgow. John has written The Peopl's Bible Commentary: Matthew (BRF, 2001), and Grove booklets on the Gospels and Acts. In this issue he writes of the death of Jesus in John's Gospel.

Andrew Goddard is Tutor in Christian Ethics at Trinity College, Bristol, where he is helping develop a Centre for Bible and Society. He also edits Anvil, the Anglican evangelical journal for theology and mission, and serves on the leadership team of Fulcrum. Andrew will be writing on the Bible and politics in this issue.

Walter Moberly is an Anglican priest and professor of theology and biblical interpretation at Durham University. Married to Jenny, he is the ever-chauffeuring father of Jon-Paul (15) and Rachel (9). He cherishes the countryside, patronises the pubs and follows the football in north-east England. Walter will be discussing the Old Testament in this issue.

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Endorsements

This regular reading of the Bible anchors my spiritual life. The Bible Reading Fellowship has consistently enabled me to hear God's word and I would not be without their help. I am deeply grateful to their editors and writers over many years.
Very Rev Professor Iain Torrance, President of Princeton Theological Seminary

I find Guidelines a very useful resource for my personal devotions. The combination of an academic consideration of the text with practical comments on issues of faith and discipleship provides me me with helpful encouragement, stimulation and challenge at the start of the day.
Revd Dr Christopher Blake, Principal, Cliff College, Derbyshire

Author info

Guidelines is commissioned by Revd Dr Jeremy Duff, writer, teacher, and a vicar in the South Widnes Team, and edited by Lisa Cherrett, Managing Editor of Bible reading notes at BRF.

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Reviews

I was introduced to the Bible Reading Fellowship by the late Ian Thomson about 40 years ago. Since then, I have read Guidelines daily. This regular reading of the Bible anchors my spiritual life. The Bible Reading Fellowship has consistently enabled me to hear God's word and I would not be without their help. I am deeply grateful to their editors and writers over many years.

Reviewed by Very Rev Professor Iain Torrance, President of Princeton Theological Seminary and a former Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland

From other Guidelines readers

'Always food for thought'

'I have read daily from Guidelines for many years and have always found it helpful and often thought-provoking.'

'I enjoy Guidelines very much.'

'Many excellent contributions'

'I have really appreciated each day and have found much to think about.'

'All your commentators are good, and I appreciate the daily notes very much.'

Book details

• ISBN: 9781841015507
• Published: 20 November 2009
• Status:
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 160