Cool chick Camy Tang over at Camy's Loft is giving away a complete set of my Bible study series. She is also running an interview she did with me that covers everything from what it's like to write a Bible study to my fave coffee drink. Here is a short excerpt:

The whole concept of everyday folks studying the Bible daily developed after the invention of the printing press. For most of the church's history, individuals did not have readable copies of God's word (nor were most people literate). So the idea that we have to have our Bible reading at a set time daily sometimes becomes a point of legalism, something to strike off the "to do" list rather than meditating "day and night," as the psalmist wrote. On the other hand, in an oral culture, which was the world at the time both Testaments were written, people had long sections memorized--something we've lost. When Jonah got stuck in the belly of the big fish, he prayed phrases from Psalms that he had hidden in his heart. Today what we have gained in resources, we have lost in memorization. So we need to make it a priority to have regular intake of God's word to compensate for what we don't have committed to memory. But it should come with caveat lector: Handle with care!