This year marks my fourth consecutive year reading through the Bible. I picked ESV Story of Redemption Bible which uses a daily reading plan to read through the entire Bible in 365 days. If you have never read the Bible in its entirety before I highly recommend purchasing this version. It has a reading plan in the back (which is what I used) and it is full of easy to understand commentary. I am going to be using this Bible again in 2020 but following a different plan. My first time reading the bible I started with Matthew and read to Revelation and then read Genesis through Malachi. I have also used The Bible Project Reading Plan and Reading God's Story: A Daily Chronological Bible Here is a quick review of what I have learned from reading the Bible in 2019! What I Learned From Reading the Bible I had great plans to type this post up over the year as I learned things but that didn't happen, there is always next year :). With that being said, what is below is … [Read more...]
3 Ways We Glorify God On The Car Ride To School
Between elementary school and preschool drop off last year I started to wonder if I could be making better use of my time in the car with the kids. A few months into the school year we began to implement these 3 things on the 15 minute car ride to the elementary school: singing, catechism, and prayer. With all 4 kids in the car it has become the perfect way to start the day for all us. SING We love singing together as a family and singing about God to glorify God is the best way to start our drive to school. Here are a few of our favorite albums that I highly recommend: Seeds Family Worship: Seeds has many albums that will help your entire family memorize scripture through song! This is a great resource!Sovereign Grace Music: Another great resource to speak God's Word into your family via song. We like the albums Walking in the Wise, The Ology, and To Be Like Jesus.Shai Linne: The album Jesus Kid is our current favorite. The song Gotta Know The Books helped our 6 and 4 year … [Read more...]
Bible Verses for Grief & Prayers to Pray for Those Grieving
Over the weekend Josh and I attended the memorial service of a young man whose parents greatly helped shape our first years of marriage. There aren't words that can express my sadness and heartbreak for this family. Life doesn't make sense sometimes. I am so thankful for the hope the bible offers when it says one day grief will be completely eliminated. No more death, sin, disease, or pain. All of our suffering will no longer be present. If you have not acknowledged your need for a savior, repented, and placed your hope and trust in Jesus, then your grief will just be beginning after you die. You will either pay for your sins or Christ will. If you have never come before the Lord who created the heavens and the earth and begged forgiveness today would be a great day to put your trust and hope in the one who takes away sin. Below I listed several bible verses on grief and prayers to pray for those who are grieving. I hope that these encourage you and offer … [Read more...]
Does God Speak To People As Clearly Today As He Did In Biblical Times?
My husband and I are currently facilitating a discipleship class at our church. We have taken this class before almost two years ago. One of the questions in the homework material caused me to we write a super long response and I decided to turn it into a blog post. Does God speak to people as clearly today as he did in biblical times? My answer to this question was basically the same as the first time we took this class but this time I was able to expand on my answer more throughly. When I look at the Old Testament I see that God only spoke to a select few. The majority of people in scripture weren't hearing God's voice or able to be in direct contact with him. He spoke to Adam and Eve in the garden, warned Noah about the flood, called Abraham to be the father of a nation, and gave Moses the Ten Commandments. These are just several of the examples of who God spoke with directly. God reached out first and desired a relationship with his chosen people. I have personally never … [Read more...]
3 Tips For Reading The Bible In 2019
I received a copy of this book from Crossway to review. All opinions are my own. The Bible is an epic story that tells us how God made the world and why we are here. He tells us that his son Jesus died on the cross for our sins and was raised from the dead and for this reason we can live with him in heaven forever. God is always good, all the time and his written Word is truthful and worthy of our complete confidence. Here are 3 tips that I hope will encourage you to start a Bible reading plan on of your own. I am also sharing this to keep myself accountable in 2019! And remember, it is never too late to start reading :). Don't Stress, Just Read Don't stress so much about what plan you are reading just make sure you are reading. It can be easy to get hung up on finding the perfect reading plan but really at the end of the day what is most important isn't what plan you used to read your Bible but that you actually read it. It might be easier to start in the Gospel's or maybe … [Read more...]
What I Learned from Reading the Bible
This year marks my third year reading through the Bible and I picked Reading God's Story: A Daily Chronological Bible which uses a six day a week reading plan to read through the entire Bible in 365 days. Two years ago I started in the Matthew and read to Revelation and then made my way to Genesis through Malachi. I didn't follow a reading plan but read at my own pace. And last year I read from Genesis to Revelation and used The Bible Project Reading Plan. Without further delay here is a brief synopsis of what I have learned from reading the Bible in 2018! Read The Bible To Know God I have discovered that reading the Bible is different each year. To date, this year has been the hardest for me to get into the Bible. I still kept up with my reading plan, and was even able to read ahead, but boy, this year has been tough. There were several times this year when I just wanted to cry because of how challenging it was for me to dig into the Bible. And I think I felt that way … [Read more...]
