Have you worked your way through the whole gospel? How have you found it? I just managed that, 6 months ago, although it took me several years to get there! I’ve really appreciated John’s attention to the detail of Jesus’ teaching, and the way that some characters, like Nicodemus, recur through the gospel. Now I find a section of John in my review queue most days. It will take a loooong time, if ever, before it’s all ‘fully learned’!
I’m finding it’s good to take it slowly, and to consider the book as a whole. The author circles round the same themes several times, so you find verses in one chapter that shadow or foreshadow a similar section in another chapter.
Good to see and may the Lord bless your study and memorisation. In my church we have a weekly Bible Study that is slowly going through Hebrews. We are just about to start Hebrews 3, but that has taken several weeks, to get that far.
I’m finding it’s good to take it slowly, and to consider the book as a whole. The author circles round the same themes several times, so you find verses in one chapter that shadow or foreshadow a similar section in another chapter.
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.