Keeping Your Verses After the Podcast
The Books by Heart podcast helps you learn stories, verse by verse, over several weeks. But how do you keep what you’ve learned after the podcast moves on?
The Books by Heart podcast helps you learn stories, verse by verse, over several weeks. But how do you keep what you’ve learned after the podcast moves on?
With Pentecost weeks away, you still have time to learn several Resurrection stories this Easter season.
I’ve launched a new podcast to help you memorize Scripture easily! To learn how it works, you can grab the first episode here, or read this slightly edited transcript.
My new ebook, Lent by Heart, offers the Passion Gospel stories as rhythmic poetry, and it’s free until Good Friday.
When I started a memory blog, I focused on techniques. Today, I’m much more interested in thinking. Ready for the secret of remembering what you read? It’s much simpler than I thought.
When you first learn verses by heart, it feels like you’ll never forget them. But if you don’t renew these verses every so often, they’ll slowly fade away. Here’s how to remember these verses for the rest of your life.
So what do you do with all these Bible verses you learn by heart? Unless your interest is purely academic, you probably want to get closer to God. Here’s an ancient, yet gentle, approach to praying through the Scriptures: lectio divina.
In Books by Heart, we learn a quirky old Bible translation. It can get a bit arcane. But it also offers some surprising hidden features.
If you want to learn the Bible by heart, focus on stories, not the chapter and verse. Stories are so much more easy, natural, and interesting.
Learning verses by heart only takes a little time each day, but you do need to take that time. Here’s a simple routine that will keep you on track.