Bible Verses

College years

I was just working on a "well known" Bible verse, Philippians 4:8, "Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is a good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things" and it brought back quite a few memories.  Through my college years someone had posted this verse on a bathroom stall and I thought I would memorize it.  Well even though I reviewed it daily I couldn't seem to recall which word came first.  I do have to say that repeating it daily it did become a bit more a part of my thought process. 

The "Hide 'Em in Your Heart" Kids

When our children grew old enough to start learning verses we got a copy of Steve Greens' Hide 'Em in Your Heart.  Putting the song to music and working along side my kids, I learned the verse in the NIV version.  We whistled our way through this verse during our Awana sessions on Wednesday evenings.  That was a great time for me to learn verses because as I taught my kids verses I found myself reviewing old verses and that I had learned as a child and meditating on them and knowing them

A CD "Not just for kids"

better than ever before. They became real to me, they became wise words of wisdom to be practiced in every day life.  Raising children seems to have a way of waking us up to reality no matter how much wisdom we had or thought we had before.
Now that my children are grown enough to work on memory verses on their own, I now have started my own memory program. I have started using a computer program, memverse.com. http://www.memverse.com.  It began at the New Year 2013 when I made a commitment to memorize the book of James in a year.

Great Study, if you are looking for one.

  I was starting the James Study from the Lifeway Bible Study done by Beth Moore.  She actually challenged us to learn it in five months but I extended it to a year.  This computer program actually challenges us to learn all the references too.  So to help I added a few verses I already knew rather well in order to help my boggled mind remember references.  When every verse starts with James things get confusing. Philippians 4:8 was one of those familiar verses but then the challenge came when I decided to use my good old faithful translation, New American Standard Bible Instead of New International Version that I used with my children.  Now that I have told all you this, I will have to stick to it.  I am working on Chapter five but have yet to claim chapter 4 is completely memorized.
 http://www.stevegreenministries.org/music/hidem_in_your_heart_vol1.php
 http://www.lifeway.com/n/Product-Family/James:-Mercy-Triumphs?intcmp=BethMoore-MTX-Text-James-20130627