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 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.
Don’t rush through saying your verses. Renewing your verses is its own reward, because when you renew, you think.
When you’re learning Bible verses by heart, how you say them makes a big difference. But there’s no one “best” way. Different kinds of recitation strengthen different kinds of memories.
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.