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Verse Mapping Steps for Deeper Scripture Study
Verse mapping has a slightly technical name for something quite simple. You take one verse, put it in the middle of a page, and give it a whole sitting, instead...
Verse Mapping Steps for Deeper Scripture Study
Verse mapping has a slightly technical name for something quite simple. You take one verse, put it in the middle of a page, and give it a whole sitting, instead...
Bible Journaling Supply Checklist for a Budget Start
Search for Bible journaling supplies and you will be shown a haul. Forty pens in a tin, a dedicated journaling Bible, a drawer of tape, and a set of stamps...
Bible Journaling Supply Checklist for a Budget Start
Search for Bible journaling supplies and you will be shown a haul. Forty pens in a tin, a dedicated journaling Bible, a drawer of tape, and a set of stamps...
A Christian Boundaries Guide for People Pleasers
People pleasing is difficult to address in a church, because so much of it looks like virtue. The person who never says no is usually the one everyone praises. Psalm...
A Christian Boundaries Guide for People Pleasers
People pleasing is difficult to address in a church, because so much of it looks like virtue. The person who never says no is usually the one everyone praises. Psalm...
Thanksgiving Devotional Ideas to Start Planning Now
Thanksgiving devotions are almost always improvised at the table, which is why they are so often a rushed sentence before the food goes cold. Galatians 6:9 says not to be...
Thanksgiving Devotional Ideas to Start Planning Now
Thanksgiving devotions are almost always improvised at the table, which is why they are so often a rushed sentence before the food goes cold. Galatians 6:9 says not to be...
Bookshelf Styling Ideas for Your Bible Study Books
A shelf of study books tends to look like a pile because it grows by accident. Nothing on it was chosen for how it looked. Proverbs 24:3 says that through...
Bookshelf Styling Ideas for Your Bible Study Books
A shelf of study books tends to look like a pile because it grows by accident. Nothing on it was chosen for how it looked. Proverbs 24:3 says that through...
How to Choose Scripture Art That Doesn't Feel Cheesy
Most scripture art fails for design reasons rather than spiritual ones. The verse is fine. The five fonts, the swirls and the sunset behind it are the problem. 1 Corinthians...
How to Choose Scripture Art That Doesn't Feel Cheesy
Most scripture art fails for design reasons rather than spiritual ones. The verse is fine. The five fonts, the swirls and the sunset behind it are the problem. 1 Corinthians...
Sunday Sermon Reflection Prompts to Use All Week
Most sermons are gone by Monday lunchtime. Not because they were poor, but because nothing was done with them between hearing and forgetting. Philippians 4:6 says that in nothing be...
Sunday Sermon Reflection Prompts to Use All Week
Most sermons are gone by Monday lunchtime. Not because they were poor, but because nothing was done with them between hearing and forgetting. Philippians 4:6 says that in nothing be...
End of Summer Reflection Questions for Your Journal
Summer ends without a ceremony. One week the evenings are long and the next the school run is back, and the whole stretch closes without anyone stopping to look at...
End of Summer Reflection Questions for Your Journal
Summer ends without a ceremony. One week the evenings are long and the next the school run is back, and the whole stretch closes without anyone stopping to look at...
A Weekly Bible Reading Checklist for Consistency
Consistency is easier to build by the week than by the day, because a week has slack in it and a day does not. This checklist assigns five readings and...
A Weekly Bible Reading Checklist for Consistency
Consistency is easier to build by the week than by the day, because a week has slack in it and a day does not. This checklist assigns five readings and...
A Monthly Faith Goals Checklist You Can Print
A month is the right length for a faith goal. Long enough to build something, short enough that you can see the end from the beginning. Proverbs 3:5 says to...
A Monthly Faith Goals Checklist You Can Print
A month is the right length for a faith goal. Long enough to build something, short enough that you can see the end from the beginning. Proverbs 3:5 says to...
Habit Tracker Ideas for Daily Bible Reading
Tracking Bible reading is different from tracking water or steps, because the thing you want to see is not only whether you read but whether it went anywhere. Proverbs 3:6...
Habit Tracker Ideas for Daily Bible Reading
Tracking Bible reading is different from tracking water or steps, because the thing you want to see is not only whether you read but whether it went anywhere. Proverbs 3:6...
Bible Verses for Anxious Nights and Racing Thoughts
Anxiety at night has a particular character. Everything is larger, nothing can be acted on, and the same three thoughts keep arriving in rotation. Psalm 121:2 is the one to...
Bible Verses for Anxious Nights and Racing Thoughts
Anxiety at night has a particular character. Everything is larger, nothing can be acted on, and the same three thoughts keep arriving in rotation. Psalm 121:2 is the one to...
5 Steps to Rebuild Trust After Church Hurt
Being hurt inside a church is a particular kind of injury, because the place that caused it is the place you were told to go for help. Psalm 55:22 says...
5 Steps to Rebuild Trust After Church Hurt
Being hurt inside a church is a particular kind of injury, because the place that caused it is the place you were told to go for help. Psalm 55:22 says...
5 Ways to Encourage a Friend This Week
Encouragement fails mostly for practical reasons. We mean to, we intend to, and then Thursday arrives and nothing was said. Psalm 107:1 gives thanks to the LORD, for he is...
5 Ways to Encourage a Friend This Week
Encouragement fails mostly for practical reasons. We mean to, we intend to, and then Thursday arrives and nothing was said. Psalm 107:1 gives thanks to the LORD, for he is...
5 Ways to Slow Down as the Season Changes
The change of season is one of the few moments when slowing down is actually possible, because the pattern of the week is being redrawn anyway. Lamentations 3:23 follows straight...
5 Ways to Slow Down as the Season Changes
The change of season is one of the few moments when slowing down is actually possible, because the pattern of the week is being redrawn anyway. Lamentations 3:23 follows straight...
5 Ways to Make Fall a Season of Spiritual Growth
Autumn is the second beginning of the year. School starts, the light changes, and there is a natural willingness to take something up that summer never had. Lamentations 3:22 says...
5 Ways to Make Fall a Season of Spiritual Growth
Autumn is the second beginning of the year. School starts, the light changes, and there is a natural willingness to take something up that summer never had. Lamentations 3:22 says...
5 Ways to Make Worship Part of Your Morning
Worship in the morning does not require a good voice, a quiet house, or forty minutes. It requires a decision made the night before about what the first part of...
5 Ways to Make Worship Part of Your Morning
Worship in the morning does not require a good voice, a quiet house, or forty minutes. It requires a decision made the night before about what the first part of...
5 Ways to Look for Beauty as a Spiritual Practice
Beauty is not decoration on the edge of the Christian life. It is one of the ways God has always been recognized, and it can be practiced rather than waited...
5 Ways to Look for Beauty as a Spiritual Practice
Beauty is not decoration on the edge of the Christian life. It is one of the ways God has always been recognized, and it can be practiced rather than waited...
5 Ways to Celebrate a Small Win With God
Most of us are quick to bring God the disasters and slow to bring him the good weeks. The wins get noted, briefly, and then we move to the next...
5 Ways to Celebrate a Small Win With God
Most of us are quick to bring God the disasters and slow to bring him the good weeks. The wins get noted, briefly, and then we move to the next...
5 Simple Ways to Praise God on a Regular Tuesday
Praise is easy to picture on a Sunday with a room full of people. It is harder to picture at two in the afternoon on a Tuesday, halfway through a...
5 Simple Ways to Praise God on a Regular Tuesday
Praise is easy to picture on a Sunday with a room full of people. It is harder to picture at two in the afternoon on a Tuesday, halfway through a...
5 Ways to Notice God's Goodness in an Ordinary Week
Most weeks are ordinary. Nothing dramatic arrives, nothing dramatic leaves, and by Friday you could not say what happened on Tuesday. Goodness is in those weeks too. It is just...
5 Ways to Notice God's Goodness in an Ordinary Week
Most weeks are ordinary. Nothing dramatic arrives, nothing dramatic leaves, and by Friday you could not say what happened on Tuesday. Goodness is in those weeks too. It is just...
Fall Scripture Memory Verses for the Whole Family
Family memory work runs on two things. Short verses and a fixed time. Eight verses follow, one for each week between the start of school and Thanksgiving. All of them...
Fall Scripture Memory Verses for the Whole Family
Family memory work runs on two things. Short verses and a fixed time. Eight verses follow, one for each week between the start of school and Thanksgiving. All of them...
Scripture About God's Faithfulness Worth Memorizing
Faithfulness is the attribute you need most at the exact moment you are least able to go looking for it. Which is the argument for having a few of these...
Scripture About God's Faithfulness Worth Memorizing
Faithfulness is the attribute you need most at the exact moment you are least able to go looking for it. Which is the argument for having a few of these...
A Scripture Memory Checklist for One Verse a Week
One verse a week is fifty two verses a year, which is more scripture than most of us memorize in a decade. The pace works because it is slow. Here...
A Scripture Memory Checklist for One Verse a Week
One verse a week is fifty two verses a year, which is more scripture than most of us memorize in a decade. The pace works because it is slow. Here...
5 Bible Study Goals to Set Before the Year Ends
There are enough weeks left in the year to finish something real. Not a whole Bible, but something you would be glad to have done. Galatians 6:9 says not to...
5 Bible Study Goals to Set Before the Year Ends
There are enough weeks left in the year to finish something real. Not a whole Bible, but something you would be glad to have done. Galatians 6:9 says not to...
Bible Study for Two | A Simple Method for Friends
Studying with one other person is the most underused form of Bible study there is. No lesson to prepare, no group to manage, no room to book. Matthew 6:33 says...
Bible Study for Two | A Simple Method for Friends
Studying with one other person is the most underused form of Bible study there is. No lesson to prepare, no group to manage, no room to book. Matthew 6:33 says...
Bible Reading Plans for Someone Who Never Finishes Them
If you have started three reading plans and finished none of them, the plans were probably wrong for you rather than the other way round. Most plans are built for...
Bible Reading Plans for Someone Who Never Finishes Them
If you have started three reading plans and finished none of them, the plans were probably wrong for you rather than the other way round. Most plans are built for...
A Bible Study Method for People Who Get Distracted
If your attention wanders four verses into a chapter, the answer is not to try harder. It is to use a method built for the mind you actually have. Psalm...
A Bible Study Method for People Who Get Distracted
If your attention wanders four verses into a chapter, the answer is not to try harder. It is to use a method built for the mind you actually have. Psalm...
How to Understand Old Testament Books That Feel Confusing
Most people who give up on reading the Bible through give up in the Old Testament, usually somewhere in the middle of the law or the prophets. The books are...
How to Understand Old Testament Books That Feel Confusing
Most people who give up on reading the Bible through give up in the Old Testament, usually somewhere in the middle of the law or the prophets. The books are...
How to Read Proverbs for Everyday Wisdom
Proverbs is the book people quote and rarely study. It reads like a list of sayings, and a list is hard to sit with for long. Five steps make it...
How to Read Proverbs for Everyday Wisdom
Proverbs is the book people quote and rarely study. It reads like a list of sayings, and a list is hard to sit with for long. Five steps make it...
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