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! :-)
I only manage to clear the backlog every couple of months. Like Xicama, I'm adding one new verse per day, and averaging about 30-35 verses of revision. So often a chapter has to wait until I have time to revise it all. And my rate of completing verses is well less than one per day, so the backlog is always growing...
Thank you all for the encouragement. I've established a daily routine now - start one new verse each day with the early morning cup of tea. The long list of review verses has to wait till later in the day, and I hardly ever clear the backlog completely.
Thank you all for the encouragement. I've established a daily routine now - start one new verse each day with the early morning cup of tea. The long list of review verses has to wait till later in the day, and I hardly ever clear the backlog completely.
Yes, I'm learning Joshua 1 too, one verse per day. I love the way God repeats "be strong and courageous" three times - obviously he knew that Joshua, and we too, would have trouble getting it, if he just said it once!
Congratulations! Yes, you are so right about the site. It got me to be more dedicated to the Word, though I have still a long way to go regarding consistency.