![]() ![]() He says, “Learning to love God’s Word is not just possible it’s doable. Pickowicz does not only want us to learn practical tips for efficient Bible study he also wants us to love and hunger for it. There are many other books about Bible study, but How to Eat Your Bible distinguishes itself with its emphasis on loving God’s Word. They are: “Starving for the Word,” “Beginning with Prayer,” “Read: What Does It Say?,” “Study: What Does it Mean?,” “Use: How Do I Apply it?,” and “Eat Up!.” Pickowicz concludes the book with his unique seven Year Bible reading plan. The book has only six chapters, each expounding a crucial step in Bible study. It’s a book about how to not just read but truly feast on Scripture.” He says, “if you’re a Christian, yet you’re struggling to read and understand your Bible, this book was written for you. He wrote this book for believers who are frustrated or overwhelmed with Bible study like he was. But in God’s providence, he stumbled upon John MacArthur’s Bible reading plan, and through practice, he discovered it was possible to learn and even enjoy God’s Word. Before becoming a pastor and student of the Word, he also struggled to read his Bible. Nate Pickowicz is the pastor of Harvest Bible Church in Gilmanton, Iron Works, New Hampshire. So to remedy this, Nate Pickowicz wrote, How to Eat Your Bible: A Simple Approach to Learning and Loving the Word of God to help us “cultivate an appetite for a lifelong study of God’s Word.” Whether it is because they do not know how to approach the Bible, find it boring, or do not have time, many Christians rarely read their Bibles. I got discouraged and eventually stopped reading my Bible for almost a year.Īlas, this kind of experience with God’s Word is not unique to me. And unsurprisingly, I could not make it past Leviticus. I figured I would read the Bible from start to finish like any other book. But, in my excitement, I did not plan my reading. I rushed to Lifeway to purchase a Bible and dug in it right away. Oh, I remember the bliss of that day and how I hungered for God’s Word for the first time. I never even read one entire Bible book until my mid-twenties, when God saved me. I grew up in a Christian home, went to church every Sunday, took catechism classes but never read the Bible.
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