“Devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture” 1 Tim. 4:13

That verse talks about reading the Bible AND preaching, implying they’re two separate things we should work on. We’ve all heard people do a terrible job of reading the Bible aloud. It’s boring, ill-prepared and worse. It misses a huge opportunity to see God’s Word come alive.

Max McLean (nationally known Alliance Seminary alum) and Warren Bird have written a book-with-DVD titled Unleashing the Word. It’s designed to help your readers (and maybe you too) release the passion of the living Word. It’s story based, many taken from our district churches and from the Scripture reading team at Max’s current church, Redeemer Presbyterian in Manhattan.

Although the book is about reading Scripture aloud, I want to show you Max McLean quoting the Bible, because you’ll quickly see the power when the word is unleashed. See these two highly engaging examples from Mark:

Warren blogged about the book here, with links on how you can order it.

I highly recommend it.