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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
How to Study the Psalms Without Feeling Lost
The Psalms are easy to read and difficult to study. They are poetry, they jump between moods, and one hundred and fifty of them in a row will defeat almost...
How to Study the Psalms Without Feeling Lost
The Psalms are easy to read and difficult to study. They are poetry, they jump between moods, and one hundred and fifty of them in a row will defeat almost...
How to Study the Parables of Jesus
Parables feel simple until you try to study one, and then they turn slippery. They invite explanation and punish over explanation at the same time. Six steps keep you from...
How to Study the Parables of Jesus
Parables feel simple until you try to study one, and then they turn slippery. They invite explanation and punish over explanation at the same time. Six steps keep you from...
How to Study the Book of James in Five Sittings
James is short, practical and slightly uncomfortable, which makes it one of the best books to study when you want something you can finish. Five sittings will take you through...
How to Study the Book of James in Five Sittings
James is short, practical and slightly uncomfortable, which makes it one of the best books to study when you want something you can finish. Five sittings will take you through...
How to Organize Bible Study Notes You'll Actually Reread
Most of us have the notes. Several notebooks, a folder of printed studies, margins filled in over years. What almost nobody has is a way of finding anything in them....
How to Organize Bible Study Notes You'll Actually Reread
Most of us have the notes. Several notebooks, a folder of printed studies, margins filled in over years. What almost nobody has is a way of finding anything in them....
How to Choose What to Read Next in the Bible
Finishing a book of the Bible is a genuinely good feeling, and it is often followed by three weeks of not reading anything, because nobody decided what came next. The...
How to Choose What to Read Next in the Bible
Finishing a book of the Bible is a genuinely good feeling, and it is often followed by three weeks of not reading anything, because nobody decided what came next. The...
A Slower Way to Read: Lectio Divina for Beginners
Most of us read the Bible the way we read everything else: fast, scanning for the point, half an eye on the clock. Lectio divina, a Latin name that simply...
A Slower Way to Read: Lectio Divina for Beginners
Most of us read the Bible the way we read everything else: fast, scanning for the point, half an eye on the clock. Lectio divina, a Latin name that simply...
Bible Study Methods, Explained Simply
Bible study methods tend to arrive wrapped in language that makes them sound harder than they are. Inductive. Hermeneutic. Exegesis. The methods themselves are usually just a sensible order of...
Bible Study Methods, Explained Simply
Bible study methods tend to arrive wrapped in language that makes them sound harder than they are. Inductive. Hermeneutic. Exegesis. The methods themselves are usually just a sensible order of...
A Color-Free Bible Marking System
Bible marking can be helpful, but a complicated color key is not the only way to study actively. If you do not enjoy carrying several highlighters, or if color-coded pages...
A Color-Free Bible Marking System
Bible marking can be helpful, but a complicated color key is not the only way to study actively. If you do not enjoy carrying several highlighters, or if color-coded pages...
The Context Before Content Bible Study Checklist
A single Bible verse can feel clear when it is printed on a card or shared in a caption. But separated from its setting, even a familiar verse can be...
The Context Before Content Bible Study Checklist
A single Bible verse can feel clear when it is printed on a card or shared in a caption. But separated from its setting, even a familiar verse can be...
Read a Bible Passage Like a Detective
It is easy to read a familiar Bible passage so quickly that you see only what you already expect to see. Slowing down like a careful detective can help you...
Read a Bible Passage Like a Detective
It is easy to read a familiar Bible passage so quickly that you see only what you already expect to see. Slowing down like a careful detective can help you...
Bible Study Notes on 1 John 4:7-8 | God's Love
It is one thing to be told how to study a passage. It is another to see a study page already filled in, so you know what you are aiming...
Bible Study Notes on 1 John 4:7-8 | God's Love
It is one thing to be told how to study a passage. It is another to see a study page already filled in, so you know what you are aiming...
Sermon Notes Layout Ideas to Stay Focused During Church
Most of us have a notebook somewhere with pages of sermon notes we have never once reread. The words were good. The handwriting was fast. But there was no structure,...
Sermon Notes Layout Ideas to Stay Focused During Church
Most of us have a notebook somewhere with pages of sermon notes we have never once reread. The words were good. The handwriting was fast. But there was no structure,...
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