Hello, good evening and welcome.

Welcome to Teacakes of Eternal Life, the blog for people who like semi-regular updates of Biblical interpretation. As I'm sure you've already worked out, the title is based on Jesus's description of himself as the "bread of life"; if Christians are going to grow in their knowledge of Jesus, they're going to need a steady diet of this bread. How do we do that? By reading God's Word to us, in the form of the Bible.

Problem with that is, the Bible's rather big. If you're going to try to take it all in at once (just as if you were going to try to eat an entire cow), it's going to be difficult and unpleasant, both for you and for those around you. (Not to mention for the cow.)

So how do we get round this? Well, one of the best ways is by breaking the Bible down into smaller chunks, which both make it easier to manage and ensure our dependence on God. If we set ourselves up with a regular intake of the Bible, we put ourselves onto a path of learning more of God's character, his actions and his promises — and, in turn, that means we get a better handle on what he wants us to do in our lives.

I don't mind admitting that I have been monumentally awful at doing this over the past few years, and this blog is for my own benefit as much as for anyone else's. My aim is to write short, readable chunks of analysis for specific Biblical passages, dealing with no more than one chapter at a time. Getting into a habit of reading, thinking about and (hopefully) understanding the Bible in this way should pay dividends for me, and if I can build up an archive of my thoughts here, it will serve as a good resource for the future.

What's more, it should be good for discussion. I've deliberately set up commenting to be as easy as possible here (anonymous comments are both allowed and unmoderated), so if you have anything to say about the conclusions I come to, please let me know. The idea is to try to get my own thinking straight on the issues that are brought up, and there's no greater potential pool of resource to tap for this than the Internet.

So, in conclusion - thanks for coming, and I hope you enjoy the blog as it grows!