Just added the final verse of Proverbs 16 this morning. I can see they will be tricky to master, because I'm finding it difficult to remember how each verse starts! Looking forward to Matthew 24, starting tomorrow. It's a long book though. I've decided my target is to do v1-31.
Who else is trying Proverbs 16 in May? I reckon it might be tricky to memorise, because each one looks like a sentence on its own, so there will not be such an obvious flow from one verse to the next as there is in other passages.
How have you got on with Matthew 5? I enjoyed finding lots of familiar teaching and learning it in context. And I never noticed the last verse before now: 'be perfect as your heavenly father is perfect'. That mirrors the phrase that comes so often in Leviticus and Deuteronomy: 'be holy as I am holy.'
The key word in the sermon this morning was 'wait' (v4). It is not for us to know times or seasons, but we should wait for the Holy Spirit and trust God.
Yes, Matthew 5 looks a challenge - more than one month's work for me! I have split it into two verse sets to make it easier to revise later, because I don't often have the time to revise 48 verses at one sitting.
Thanks to you all. The 1000th verse was Psalm 42:1 - seems quite appropriate. Now for the next thousand, ha ha! Does anyone know how many verses you need for level 7?
Thanks to you all. The 1000th verse was Psalm 42:1 - seems quite appropriate. Now for the next thousand, ha ha! Does anyone know how many verses you need for level 7?
At first when you said Xicama that it´s going to take 85 years to learn the whole Bible (unless I speed up significantly!), it sounded rather daunting, an impossible goal that´s far beyond what any of us can ever hope to achieve. And this morning I woke up and realised that this is great news - for the rest of my entire life I can every day continue to learn and discover new things verse by verse in the Bible! It will never run dry! :-)