Week 1: Quiet Time ... discipline in my spiritual life Devotions, Quiet Times, Personal Bible Study. Is is really necessary? "God is not interested in your quiet time or devotions or personal Bible study … His interest is YOU." 10 Tips for a Great Quiet Time "Spending time in the Word is important … but how that happens and for how long on any given day? I’m just not sure that is quite as big a deal to God as it seems to be to us sometimes." Memorize, Meditate, and Meander: Storing Up ... [Read More]
Chocolate, Paradise, and Every Spiritual Blessing
{Welcome my friend and mentor - though she may not have realized that last one! - Kathy Howard. One of the biggest blessings of starting Scripture Dig has been getting to know Kathy. To wrap up our first week of Starting Well, she is sharing about a great Bible study she is going to begin next week on her blog. If you are looking for a place to start in Bible study this year, THIS would be perfect!!} Chocolate surrounded me. Left, right, ahead, and behind. Everywhere I turned, chocolate ... [Read More]
Tools of the Trade: Resource Recommendations
Honestly, this is hard to do. I have so many favorites resources. But I'm going to narrow it down to just a few suggestions in several categories. Bibles: I love my New Living Translation Life Application Study Bible for devotional reading. I use the English Standard Version for most of my writing and study. {Which you can get free for Kindle or Kindle apps!} My favorite study Bible is the Hebrew-Greek Key Word Study Bible. Devotions: Jesus Calling Streams in the Desert Study Tools ... [Read More]
Memorize, Meditate, and Meander: Storing Up God’s Word
Stockpiling. When I was growing up in a small town in Oklahoma, I can remember a few people who "stockpilers." They collected water and canned food along with batteries and flashlights and stored it all in their fallout shelters where they'd be safe in case of a nuclear attack. My daughter has never had a nuclear attack drill in her school and knows little, if anything, about the Cold War. Today stockpiling is mostly a term used in reference to couponing. But maybe it's time we did some ... [Read More]
10 Tips for a Great Quiet Time
{FYI ... you may also want to check out 10 (more) tips for a great quiet time.} A great quiet time. We all want one. We all know we need one. The problem is ... we live in this fallen, broken, messy, busy world. Carving out the time is hard enough. But figuring out what to do when we have it ... that's an even bigger challenge. Bible in 90 Days, Bible in a Year, the latest study by Priscilla Shirer or Kay Arthur, classic devotions like My Utmost for His Highest or Streams in ... [Read More]
Devotions, Quiet Time, Personal Bible Study. Is It Really Necessary?
Many of us began the New Year with a renewed desire to spend time growing in the Lord. The problem is ... we don't always know what that means or how to do it. So we do what we heard all the super spiritual people do and commit to reading the whole Bible in a year and taking notes about all we learn along the way. We choose a one-year reading plan and jump from Genesis to Psalms to Proverbs and finally to Matthew ... and within a few a few days our enthusiasm wanes and our exhaustion ... [Read More]
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