About
The MIQRA Institute is a specialized study and resource ministry focused on the reverent and responsible reading, interpreting, and proclaiming of the Church’s sacred scriptures, the Bible. The Institute offers seminars, courses, publications, consultation, and other biblical support especially to people engaged in or aspiring to teaching and preaching ministries in the context of the church and its mission on the earth.
Our Mission
The MIQRA Institute exists to serve the church by training and supporting especially its leaders in their high calling of handling the Scriptures in such a way that God’s voice is heard clearly and completely. To this end, the Institute provides serious-level biblical studies and related resources for those who aspire to or are engaged in biblical teaching ministries.
In its unique location between the Church and the academy, MIQRA effectively serves both. Respecting the Church and its mission, the Institute offers in-depth biblical education and other biblical resources to present and prospective pastors and teachers, Christian educators, youth and children’s ministers, campus ministers, missionaries, and other serious-minded servants of the Lord. Respecting the academy, the Institute provides creditable courses, visiting lectureships, student referral, and intensive internships to seminaries, universities, and colleges and their students (prospective or enrolled). Although not formally accredited or independently degree-granting, MIQRA does offer courses that advance a student’s standing in conventional programs.
Our Message
The MIQRA Institute affirms that the Holy Scriptures as Old and New Testaments, received as sacred canon by the early Jewish and Christian communities of faith, are the fully inspired and wholly reliable revelation of the Triune God, in which writings the divine voice speaks a discernible message which those with the requisite competencies and virtues are able to read, study, and proclaim. Further, the Institute affirms:
- That these Scriptures are intrinsically worthy of reading and hearing and obeying, which activities define the worshiping community as the people of God;
- That these Scriptures are inherently relevant, breathing the always-fresh voice of the living God into the lives of those who humbly listen;
- That these Scriptures are inexhaustibly resourceful for salvation and service, defining what it means to know God and fitting those who do for every good work;
- That these Scriptures are intentionally proclamational, their authored meaning constituting a divine message intended to be propagated.
Our Ministry
The MIQRA Institute specializes in four ministries which advance its mission and message:
- Teaching/Lecturing - Local and distant, extended and modular, foundational and advanced, church and schools
- Preaching/Speaking - Churches, retreats, and conferences
- Writing/Publishing - The MIQRA quarterly journal, papers, manuals, notes, books, curricula, and bibliographies
- Consulting/Mentoring - In biblical reading, exegeting, and preaching/teaching
Specialty areas for all MIQRA ministries focus on biblical introduction and interpretation, biblical languages and exegesis, book expositions and biblical theology.