A very effective way of memorising scripture or other texts is to use symbols. Here is an example. JAMES 1:19 Be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger , for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. Method Identify primary key words : QUICK SLOW SLOW I imagine […]
See today, I appoint you over nations and over kingdoms, to pluck up and to pull down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant. This is one of the key verses in Jeremiah together with 31:3. Use a simple phrase PAP DO BAP See today I appoint you over nations and kingdoms […]
This passage possibly contains the key verses in this letter, emphasising how Jesus – ‘the grace of God has appeared’ and trains us how to both, keep clear of overwhelming desires that can become addictions and to live upright, self controlled godly lives. Perhaps learn it in two stages up to the word ‘waiting’ first. […]
Here is a list of 26 parables. There are other passages that could be described as parables in the gospels but this list are the essential 26. Note some parables recur in different gospels, e.g. the parable of the lost sheep is found in both Matthew and Luke and sometimes the emphasis is different. Here […]
“Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches, 24 but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things […]
If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 And if I give all my possessions to […]
O Lord my God, in you do I take refuge; save me from all my pursuers and deliver me,2 lest like a lion they tear my soul apart, rending it in pieces, with none to deliver. 3 O Lord my God, if I have done this, if there is wrong in my hands,4 if I have repaid my friend with evil or plundered my enemy without cause,5 let the enemy pursue my soul and […]
My heart overflows with a pleasing theme; I address my verses to the king; my tongue is like the pen of a ready scribe. 2 You are the most handsome of the sons of men; grace is poured upon your lips; therefore God has blessed you forever.3 Gird your sword on your thigh, O mighty one, in your splendor and majesty! 4 In your majesty ride out victoriously for the […]
I will be putting up a lot more up on this subject but here is one idea; it is useful to hang a chapter on a simple story line sentence or on a mnemonic. This acts as the scaffolding on which you then hang the paragraphs. An example from the sermon on the Mount Matthew […]
It is said that every invention or innovation is an amputation. We gain something only at the loss of something else. We see this throughout history no more so than with the industrial revolution. The invention of the internal combustion engine brought many benefits but also many losses – a relationship with your horse for […]