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WHAT IS

THE BIBLICAL WILD?

The Biblical Wild is an interactive bible study for individuals, small groups, neighborhoods, and congregations where we will journey into the wilds of Holy Scripture through daily readings of the Old Testament and Psalms and weekly video reflections presented by the Rt. Rev. Todd Ousley, former bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Eastern Michigan.

 

 

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DEVOTIONAL SCHEDULE:

The Biblical Wild involves a daily reading of scripture. In the first year, it covers all of the Old Testament and the Psalms. Click on the links below to download sample reading schedules.

FULL YEAR 1 CALENDAR

FULL YEAR 2 CALENDAR

 

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Week XXI: I Chronicles 7-24, Psalms 116-119


In this week's Biblical Wild, we begin our examination of the books of Chronicles, two significantly neglected books in Christian Bible study, teaching, and preaching.

Hanging out at the Hoyt Library in downtown Saginaw, Bishop Ousley discusses the need for us to seriously consider Chronicles rather than losing the details in the shuffle.

Questions to consider:

1. What does it mean for an imaginative telling of the past to be considered opera rather than history?

2. Does the base of your faith need more history than opera? Or more opera than history?

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Week XX: II Kings 16 - I Chronicles 6, Psalms 111-116


Again this week, we're hanging out at the Castle Museum in downtown Saginaw.

Last week, we did a bit of skimming the surface of I Kings and II Kings and this week we look to another interpretive lens: the tension between law (both judging and destroying) and gospel (both saving and forgiving).

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Questions to consider:

1. How did you experience God’s presence or absence?

2. How did this experience inform the direction of your life? Your congregation’s life?

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Week XIX: I Kings 22-II Kings 15, Psalms 105-110


This week and next week, we're hanging out at the Castle Museum in downtown Saginaw as we explore the history of Kings I and Kings II.

As we begin to think about these books, the Bishop invites you to consider the overall sweep of the narrative, revealing two perspectives in the final words of the Deuteronomic "History".

Questions to consider:

1 - In your life and in your reading of Holy Scripture, are you drawn more to the specific details of a particular person or story OR do you find the "grand sweep," the metanarrative, to be more compelling?

2 - Why do you think this is so and how does it matter?

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