I am trying endeavouring to memorize around 180 verses by January, in an effort to pass Grace Brethren Licensure review, which is quite rigorous I have been told. How will I get there? Read on to find out. If you want an anecdotal look back at my memorization history (such as it is) check out [...]
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In an effort to prepare for licensure with the Grace Brethren, I have been working on memorizing Scripture. I’ve always just kid of absorbed Scripture incidentally, which has given me a lot of the Word in my heart but without address. Heh. Kind of like how people were before the invention of chapter and verse, [...]
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Thanks to Team Pyro I read through an article on the coming collapse of evangelicalism. There is much truth there but also a lot of pessimism. I still hold out hope that the picture will not come to pass with that much failure. Two things from the article and where it intersects with myself. We [...]
I just happened to stumble on over to a blog I have not read in a few months, and lo and behold I found a treasure trove of good stuff. On the subject of Bible reading. First, I noted she referred to Bible reading plans. I am always up for new ideas in that area. [...]
I’ve been making some good headway on my paper over the weekend. It feels good… like I am actually going to get it done. The section I am working on right now deals with contextualization. There have been some very good things I have been reading about it. One of which I even got off [...]
Oh Lord, sustain my children’s hunger for your Word. Don’t let my own laziness or selfishness keep them from it. I am so proud each and every night they beg me to read them a story from the Bible. How easily that feeling is overwhelmed by the urgent, or by fatigue, or by petty distractions. [...]
I finally began to work on the articles I had collected for my big paper, and this quote stuck out at me as important. Does anyone have the foggiest idea what sort of power we so blithely invoke? Or, as I suspect, does no one believe a word of it? The churches are children playing [...]
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