Category: Religion

  • History of Christianity

    Continuing the theme of history-based studies, the latest youth group study I led was on the History of Christianity. There is an incredible amount of literature available online, and we only covered a small fraction of events from Early Christianity and investigating the major groups of denominations. We also had a look at how Christianity…

  • Islam

    I decided to do a series of studies for our church youth group on various religions and started with Islam as Muslims form the second largest religious group globally. The intent was to cover the fundamentals of the Islamic faith, common terms that people may have come across, a brief history, and Islam’s relation to…

  • History of the Bible

    I ran a different type of study with our church youth group today where we investigated the history of the Bible. It was a combination of a trivia-style and lecture-style presentation and I’ve uploaded the notes I used. It took a little while to put it together – most of the time was spent reading…

  • Parallel Bible

    My 85 year old grandma has been getting into reading various bible translations from her iPad. In order to improve her Hindi reading skills, she was looking for a side-by-side translation of a Malayalam bible and Hindi bible. While we could find Malayalam-English and Hindi-English versions, we couldn’t find a Malayalam-Hindi one that she could…