WHAT IS THIS BLOG ALL ABOUT?

This is a project which I've started for my own benefit, but if it helps anybody else, that would be great. I'm a Bible teacher and writer with a completely disorganized mind. I'm never happy with what I preach, and as a result I find it hard to keep notes of anything I've said... even the good bits. I could also do with some added discipline to keep me going in serious regular study. So I'm going to record here some of the discoveries I've made in reading the Bible for myself.

I'll be doing it in a fairly structured way, so I hope it will build into a commentary on some of my favourite books of Scripture. It won't be a technical, scholarly commentary; the emphasis will be on understanding the author's meaning, the significance of passages in the light of the whole biblical revelation, and its devotional impact on living today; but I will be trying to ensure that it takes account of the best scholarship available and builds itself on reliable fact.

So I'll be grateful to anyone who challenges claims I make, or statements I advance, which they believe to be inaccurate. The Bible is important enough for us all to be concerned to get it right. E-mail me at johnallan@unforgettable.com if you have any comments to make.

I will also follow the example of Charles Spurgeon's great book The Treasury of David and supply preaching outlines on all the passages I deal with. Not only is this a useful discipline (and another way of wrestling with the text's meaning), it also gives me a fund of ready-to-use outlines if I ever need one in a hurry!

I hope you can use what will follow. But even if you don't, I will!