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- The Berean Method: How to Receive Teaching and Test It Testing Teachers · Part 1 The believers in Berea were commended for double-checking an apostle, and their example gives every believer the pattern for testing teaching against Scripture.
- Scripture Interprets Scripture: The Third Skill of Discernment The Skills of Discernment · Part 3 How to let the Bible's clear passages guide your reading of the difficult ones, and why this skill only works after context and genre.
- Reading by Genre: The Second Skill of Discernment The Skills of Discernment · Part 2 Why you have to read a psalm differently than a proverb, and how missing a passage's genre is one of the most common ways careful readers still get misled.
- Reading in Context: The First Skill of Discernment The Skills of Discernment · Part 1 Why the most important discernment skill is also the most basic: learning to read a passage in its own context before deciding what it means.