Thanks to you all. I know just what you mean about 'unlearning'. It sure is tricky to review a whole chapter without slipping up on a verse you already completed once!
Thanks to you all. I know just what you mean about 'unlearning'. It sure is tricky to review a whole chapter without slipping up on a verse you already completed once!
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.