Today we start a discussion series on “stories of a reckless God,” where we become familiar with the Bible as a collection of stories of messy people interacting with an equally messy God.

Well, that was the plan anyway - today we woke up to 8 inches of snow and more falling steadily! So, we postponed the grand start of the group until NEXT Saturday…

We were supposed to meet at a local pizza place - Kiro’s Pizza, the best pizza in Belchertown! I will still go there - it has been a while since I talked with Alex, who owns the place, and his brother Hany. They have been looking forward to the discussion group being at their place so that they could participate in community - running a small pizza place in a small town takes a lot of work on their part, they work 16 hour days 7 days a week.

In the meantime, here are a couple of outlines that I wrote up for the discussion group:

Here is a one-page list of the contents of the Bible, listing the books and grouping them: Bible Contents

And here is a one-page summary of the themes and stories of the Bible, by book and time: Bible Stories

For those who are interested, I found the following book very helpful in putting together the above documents:

Halley’s Bible Handbook - 25th Edition

It is a wonderfully easy-to-read companion guide to the Bible, describing the historical setting of each book and providing a great look at what was going on AROUND the Bible stories!

Enjoy