congratulations on persisting with Hebrews and reaching chapter 7. I tried Hebrews several years ago, and got bogged down somewhere around chapters 7 and 8. I'm believing that you will do better :)
Thanks for asking. Back in late 2024 I started from John 18; I'm currently adding new verses from John 20:19-30. I'm also working on John 1, 2 and 14 (I'm doing a reset of John). When it appears in the feed that I've started learning something, it can be misleading, because some sets I made public, and I start them from my spreadsheet link and also before they are really due. I do that partially believing (and hoping) that it's an edifying thing to appear in the newsfeed.
I too find Psalm 27 very encouraging- not just v13&14, but also v4 “One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple.” And the gospel of John is a great project! I have just finished it - ie I now have all the chapters started here in LearnScripture. It’s taken several years, on and off, to add the whole gospel, and I’m sure it will take many more years (if ever!) to get it all ticked off as ‘completed’. But it’s a great blessing to study / memorise slowly. May God bless you in your own journey with John.
God bless you both with your 3-year project! I got to over 18 months, when I inadvertently missed a day. I was sad at the time, but with hindsight I’m glad that missing that one day freed me from the problem of an ever-growing review list!
I too am working through Hebrews now. I’ve reached the middle of chapter 5. But I know what you mean about the ‘logic’ of chapter 4. As I review it, I’m increasingly realising that I don’t have a very firm grasp of God’s offer to us to enter his eternal rest ‘today’, and to live in the reality of that rest.
No, I don’t review verses that have reached 100% - they’re in a category you could call ‘I know this verse now, more-or-less’. Reaching 100% on this site is not the same, for me, as word-perfect perfect recall. But when a chapter comes up for review, I do use ‘test-instead-of-read’ until there are just a few verses left, so I am reviewing the 100% verses in that case.
No, I don’t review verses that have reached 100% - they’re in a category you could call ‘I know this verse now, more-or-less’. Reaching 100% on this site is not the same, for me, as word-perfect perfect recall. But when a chapter comes up for review, I do use ‘test-instead-of-read’ until there are just a few verses left, so I am reviewing the 100% verses in that case.
thank you for sharing that. Recently I've begun using a spreadsheet to "memorize"some specific areas of the Bible. The spreadsheet determines when I will review the passage again. I expect I'll do it almost the same as you, moving on after the passage reaches 100 percent. Some of these verses are passages which I'm memorizing for the 2nd time, having done a big reset several months ago. I pray to be consistent with this, as some others are here.
Congratulations, PeterP! I checked it, since I couldn't quite remember; and as you know, it means that verse sets you have created publicly have been used by others at least 100 times, and also that those sets are still being used by others.
Thanks, Moviegoer, for sharing your method in such detail. It is encouraging and inspiring to see your commitment. I’ve just added Hebrews 1 and 2 too, but I’m content with the partial memorisation that I get from following the website’s built-in schedule. Until now, I’d never noticed how wonderful Hebrews 2:14-18 is as a summary of the eternal covenant that God has made with Jesus on our behalf.
Good morning, Joosep! I’m not sure yet. I added Hebrews 1 because I’d learnt several individual verses and I wanted to consolidate the context, and then Hebrews 2 seems to flow naturally on from that. Let’s see whether I might continue through the book.
Good morning, Joosep! I’m not sure yet. I added Hebrews 1 because I’d learnt several individual verses and I wanted to consolidate the context, and then Hebrews 2 seems to flow naturally on from that. Let’s see whether I might continue through the book.
Thank you for sharing that. I worked on Hebrews a few years ago, but got bogged down somewhere around chapter 7. At the moment I'm working on Zechariah, adding one verse per day and making it a priority to review and repeat them when they come due. Zechariah 1:1 is currently at about 70 percent, and the newest I added today was Zech 3:2. I started this on 20 December and also I'm listening to a sermon series on Zech. as I go along. I'm not aiming for recitation quality, but just using the Learn Scripture system, including the hints, to advance them as much as I can. I pray now that the Lord will bless your time spent in Hebrews!
Thank you for sharing how you choose a verse and represent it visually. That sounds very powerful and satisfying (although I myself am not a visual learner). And I checked out your ‘walk through John’ verses, and it is surprising how well you’ve captured the essence of the book in just one or two verses from each chapter. God bless you as you continue to spend time with him.
I looked up this Psalm. Two verses which got my attention were verses 3 and 4. If You, Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? But there is forgiveness with You, that You may be feared. (NKJV)
I'm posting a personal milestone here… I just added the last verse of John 9, which means that I’ve started learning the whole of John. (I’ve added chapters in a strange order!) Looking at the numbers, I see there are 878 verses in John, and I’ve so far completed 436 of them, which is almost exactly 50%. I wonder how many years it might take me to complete the whole book?