Learning to Study the Word of God
The great miracle is that the Bible, despite all of its variety and complexity, reveals a single, unifying, underlying, and overarching story.
The great miracle is that the Bible, despite all of its variety and complexity, reveals a single, unifying, underlying, and overarching story.
Memorization quick-loads our short term memory. Re-memberization is of another order. It slow-loads our long term memory.
Meditation, in the biblical vision, means to fill one’s consciousness with the Word of God; to relish and even devour it with deep delight.
The notion of sacred space and secular space is an absurdity to the Bible. No place is too sacred and no place too profane to warrant the witness of the Word of God.
The Word of God is perfect, trustworthy, right, radiant, pure, and firm. It refreshes, makes wise, grants joy, gives light, endures forever and brings righteousness.
God has revealed his thoughts and ways, his mind and heart, his intentions, purposes and will to us through his revealed Word.
Our lives consist not in the big decisions and banner events dotting our calendars but in the little things we consistently do day after day after day.
Christmas belongs to Jesus, and all Jesus wants for Christmas is for us, you and me, to belong to him.