Week 5

This week we will continue our journey down the Roman Road.  I hope that the verses from last week as well as the verses this week remind you of the wonderful grace extended to us when we were so undeserving.  And having experienced this grace, I urge you to share it with all you meet this week.  In our Tuesday morning Bible study, we are studying the life of David and how he was chosen by God as king for the sake of the children of Israel.  Just as God chose David, God has chosen us and anointed us in our present generation.  There are those we come into contact with every day that need the love and mercy of Jesus Christ.  We are chosen by God and placed here in this generation, in this place, at this time, to reach these lost ones.  Let us take these verses to heart as we place them in our memory, and let's apply them in our daily activities to share Christ with someone.  What would be better this week than to see someone accept Jesus as their Savior.

Romans 5:8
But God demonstrates his own love for us in this:  While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 10:9-10
That is you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.  For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved.

Week 4

Last week our verses focused on the love of God shown to us in the sacrifice of Jesus Christ.  Now that we know this great love that has been "lavished on us", what do we do with this information?  Do we sit and marvel at the goodness of God and praise Him for His love?  Yes, we should be filled with gratitude and praise as well as humbled by the extravagant love of the Father.  But, we were not shown love to simply know love.  We were shown love in order to share love.  And what better way do we have to share love than to lead someone to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.  So for the next two weeks, we will take a familiar walk down the Roman Road.  Many of us already know these verses, but let's look at them anew and seize opportunities to share Christ with those around us.  May God give each of us the privilege of sharing His Word and His love this week!

Romans 3:23
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Week 3

This week we will visit the best known verse in the Bible.  John 3:16 is probably the first verse we all learned in Sunday School when we were little girls.  It is the first verse that we try to teach our children because we realize that the truth of the gospel is completely revealed in this one little verse.  That is the reason we will focus on it this week.  In his book, 100 Bible Verses Everyone Should Know by Heart, Robert Morgan says, "When you've memorized Genesis 1:1; John 1:1,1:14,and 3:16, you have the entire Bible in the palm of your hand.  These verses are the four corners of God's Word."  The truth of the Word is communicated clearly in these four verses of scripture.  They tell of the eternal nature of God, the divinity and humanity of Jesus, and the deep love of the Father.  Now we not only hold them in the palm of our hands, we have them hidden deeply in our heart.

Along with John 3:16, this week we will also learn 1John 3:1 and 1 John 3:16.  These two verse follow along with the theme of the love of God.  It has often been said that John 3:16 is "for God so loved the world" and 1John 3:16 is "since God so loved the world".  Remember this as we place these verses in our hearts this week.

John 3:16 (NIV)
 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

1John 3:1 (NIV)
How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

1John 3:16 (NIV)
This is how we know what love is:  Jesus Christ laid down his life for us.  And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

Week 2

I hope each of you  had a wonderful week last week.  If you have been a student of the Word you probably were very familiar with the two verses we memorized, if not I hope you loved thinking about the majesty and the creativity of our eternal God.  These are wonderful verses to get us started and remind us of what a wonderful Creator we serve.  Also, these are great verses to teach to our children.  Children these days need to know the truth of creation and have it engraved upon their hearts before they are exposed to the theory of evolution which is being taught earlier and earlier in our schools.

This week I want us to continue with John 1.  Verses 3-5 are a natural continuation of  verses 1 and 2. As you learn these new verses, remember to connect them with the previous two to give context and meaning.  The next verse is found a little later in the passage, but really connects to these verses. It seems very natural to memorize these together.  I know there is more content this week and it is more of a challenge, but let's work hard and commit to learning these verses together.

May God show Himself faithful as we seek Him.

John 1:3-5 (NIV)
Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.  In him was life, and that life was the light of men.  The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.

John 1:14 (NIV)
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us.  We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.

John 1:3-5 (NKJV)
All thing were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.  In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.  And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

John 1:14(NKJV)
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

Welcome!

Recently our church was challenged by our pastor to make some important connections in 2011.  The first priority was to connect to God on a deeper level.  Upon receiving this challenge, the Lord really began to work in me about connecting to Him through scripture memory.  After all, what better way to know God than to implant His Word into my heart and life.  To bury His "seeds of truth" within me so that I can develop a heart and mind more like Him each day.  So, I purchased the book, 100 Bible Verses Everyone Should Know by Heart by Robert J. Morgan and committed to learning these verses over the next year.  But, it is always easier and more fun to learn with friends.  So, I decided to begin a blog.  Each week two passages of Scripture will be posted to be memorized during the week.  As we work on planting these truths in our minds, comments of encouragement and advice can be posted to help on the journey.

I am so excited to see what God is going to do this year in me and in all of us who commit to learning His Word.  Let's encourage each other and see what wonderful things God has in store for 2011!

Week 1

Genesis 1:1   " In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth"

John 1:1-2    "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  He was with God in the beginning."