thank you, I pray that in my heart I will (and we all) will truly fulfill those words. I've thought often lately about Jesus' quoting of the Old Testament, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, strength, and mind -- fourfold and four different ways to love God, and yet only one for our neighbor. That is not in any way to minimize the love we are to have for our neighbor(s). No. But there's a passion and a devotion to loving God that we are all to aspire to and to grow in. And if we do, we most certainly will also love our neighbor along the way!
PeterP, I reset part of Luke 1:67-80, which is Zacharias' prophesy. I've been going through Isaiah chapter by chapter (by going through, I mean more old-fashioned reading than I mean LSN reviews for memorization). As I do each chapter then I listen to a summary on youtube prepare by a particular Bible teacher. Here is his summary and teaching on Isaiah 32. https://youtu.be/Q1bR6OyshII?si=E6a6ucBPNYjVYY0K I reset the verses because I was struck recently by the correlation between some passages of OT prophecy and Zecharias' prophecy when his tongue was loosed. It made me want to repeat them all over again, so I reset them :)
I'm doing fine, thank you for asking :) Late tomorrow I'll create a "progress report" for Luke. (I said earlier that I'd do that every three months). I'm working on a variety of other areas in the scriptures too, and listening to Bible teachings about those verses. I feel blessed.
I'm doing fine, thank you for asking :) Late tomorrow I'll create a "progress report" for Luke. (I said earlier that I'd do that every three months). I'm working on a variety of other areas in the scriptures too, and listening to Bible teachings about those verses. I feel blessed.
I understand. Well, it's simply a good thing to keep repeating God's Word and to humble ourselves and listen to Him, allow Him to speak to us through His word and change us. If that is what we are doing here, it's a very good thing.
If you have some insights from the first 3 chapters of 1 Peter which you would like to share, I would like very much to hear them, and I'm sure others would feel the same :)
I want to emphasize here that I'm not aiming for perfect recitation of Luke; I just don't want anyone to misunderstand. I'm aiming rather for as thorough a knowledge of this gospel as I can attain, through a lot of scheduled repetition. If I make mistakes on a couple of verses and they go backwards, I don't worry about it; I'm concerned more with the overall grasping of Luke, rather than one verse. That being said, it's only the method I myself am using; I have great respect for people like you Moviegoer, or FinalAsgard, who have set recitation as their goal. I just feel it's important to be transparent in this :)
Hello Moviegoer! Nice to hear from you. Ephesians 5; I added that as a kind of "medicine", needing to meditate on some of the truths contained there :) As to Luke, I'm still working on it and have a long way to go :) The set I most recently added was The Rich Man and Lazarus, Luke 16:19-31. I haven't even begun Luke 17-24 yet (with a few exceptions). I promised to give a full report of the progress every three months and that will come on 5 November. But I've been blessed greatly working on Luke and as I've said before .. it will certainly take years to finish .. if I don't die before then, or if the Lord doesn't return before then. ---- How are things going for you with 1 Peter?
Hello Moviegoer! Nice to hear from you. Ephesians 5; I added that as a kind of "medicine", needing to meditate on some of the truths contained there :) As to Luke, I'm still working on it and have a long way to go :) The set I most recently added was The Rich Man and Lazarus, Luke 16:19-31. I haven't even begun Luke 17-24 yet (with a few exceptions). I promised to give a full report of the progress every three months and that will come on 5 November. But I've been blessed greatly working on Luke and as I've said before .. it will certainly take years to finish .. if I don't die before then, or if the Lord doesn't return before then. ---- How are things going for you with 1 Peter?
I want to emphasize here that I'm not aiming for perfect recitation of Luke; I just don't want anyone to misunderstand. I'm aiming rather for as thorough a knowledge of this gospel as I can attain, through a lot of scheduled repetition. If I make mistakes on a couple of verses and they go backwards, I don't worry about it; I'm concerned more with the overall grasping of Luke, rather than one verse. That being said, it's only the method I myself am using; I have great respect for people like you Moviegoer, or FinalAsgard, who have set recitation as their goal. I just feel it's important to be transparent in this :)
First, I applaud your efforts on Luke without aiming for perfect recitation. While my work on Mark was with a desire for perfect recitation, I am still not there. I am not sure I will ever get there. It is a monumental task, and by way of encouragement, I have benefited much much more from a more thorough knowledge, emphasis, and focus on Mark than recitation can give. I Peter is radically different. I feel like letters are easier to get right in terms of recitation, but they are much more compressed in terms of depth. So, I am progressing ok (1st three chapters done), I don't feel like I get it yet. It's coming.
Always good to hear from you Joosep. Thanks for your faithfulness to the work!
If you have some insights from the first 3 chapters of 1 Peter which you would like to share, I would like very much to hear them, and I'm sure others would feel the same :)
Well done! I'm sure, that as you're repeating these verses which the Lord has led you to add, that you are increasing in your knowledge of Him and of His ways.
jcosimi, Congratulations on reaching that goal! your persistence in working diligently on this site will bear fruit, I truly believe! (and most likely has already borne fruit)