Berita NECF Newletters

Digging Deep for Gems

Digging Deep for Gems

  • Have you ever started the year making a resolution to read the Bible from cover to cover but got bogged down in Leviticus or Numbers?
  • Do you feel frustrated trying to get past a surface-level understanding of the Bible, to see how it ties in to world history, philosophy, and contemporary scientific worldview?
  • Have you ever found it difficult to explain Biblical concepts and worldviews to skeptical friends?
  • Have you ever wanted a daily Bible study practice that goes deep and really expands your horizons in order to know God better?

If yes, then go for PROJECT TIMOTHY.

Reading the Bible alone can be a confusing experience. In fact, God never meant the Bible to be read in solitude, according to Project Timothy (PT), a programme that offers the opportunity to dig deep into God's Word in a small, tightly-knit community.

Designed by Malaysian-born but New-York based apologist-scholar Rev. Dr Ron Choong, PT takes its participants systematically through the Bible in six semesters of five sessions each to cover the entire Bible over three years.

It does not matter which particular part of the Bible participants enter in at, for God intended His children to have all of His Word shape their thinking through a daily routine of reading and meditation.

The programme is a deliberately slow, focused and close reading of the Bible, and is more about an approach than simply learning a particular body of knowledge. It emphasises methodology, that is, learning how to read and understand the Bible and hear it as God's Word.

The final goal is to help each participant develop a biblical worldview by which to understand and draw on the resources of the Bible in a responsible and coherent fashion. Lectures prepared by Rev. Dr Choong will be delivered at special sessions to weave a web of knowledge around the different fields of inquiry - such as archaelogy, history, the sciences and geography - with which the Bible engages.

PT is a programme of the Academy for Christian Thought of which Rev. Dr Choong is the Executive Director. To know more about PT and how you can participate in this course, visit www.actministry.com

Rev. Dr Choong was originally trained in English law (LLB Hons) and the natural sciences (BA). He turned to philosophy, archaeology, science and theology in preparation for a ministry in apologetics and evangelism.

An ordained minister with the Presbyterian Church, he has served in the New York area with an international summer ministry for 15 years. He holds a doctorate in philosophy of science and theology on the implications of the imago Dei (image of God) and has three master's degrees in history, philosophy and theology.

Log on to www.actministry.org to know more.



[ Back ] [ Print Friendly ]