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Memorizing the Bible is a key spiritual discipline. “Thy word have I hid in my heart, that I might not sin against Thee,” is a passage that I have memorized from childhood. Memorizing and meditating on the word of God is commended in the Bible and important for our well being. Tips: Set aside a fixed time and place to memorize. When reciting, your aim is to be able to say the verse as smoothly and as accurately as if you were reading it off of a page to a group of people. If you have to hem and haw or pause for a long time and think, then it’s not solid enough in your brain. Keep reciting and practicing. For reviewing, take 30-60 seconds here and there without diverting from regular life, and insert recitation into the short passive moments, like in the bathroom, driving, etc. Put a screenshot of the verse on your phone lock screen. Try the Bible Memory App Journal on the passage you are memorizing. My personal process: Initial memorization with verse memorizor tool I made. Add to anki Review in anki. Family process: When we memorize with kids, it is all oral since half our kids can’t read yet. ...

How to Play: Minecraft: Heroes of the Village Game Objective Work together to defend the village from advancing Illagers by exploring the world, gathering blocks, fighting mobs, and constructing three buildings before the Illagers reach the village. Setup Instructions Game Components Wooden Blocks: 25 blocks (6 wood, 6 sand, 6 stone, 3 redstone, 4 darkness) World Tiles: 32 tiles (18 world tiles, player, pet, starting, and “Illagers Path” tiles) Mob Tokens: 12 tokens used when fighting mobs Dice: One black Fight die and one white Illagers die Cards: 16 cards (4 inventory cards, 6 player character cards, 6 special ability cards) Color Bases: 4 for players, plus building and Illagers bases Pouch: For drawing blocks Setup Steps Choose your player and pet tiles. (Two sets. Make sure the set that goes in the base and the set that attaches to the crafting board match.) Wolf: When fighting mobs, add +1 to the roll. Cat: When collecting blocks, Block, you’re protected from the first Darkness Block you draw. If you draw a second Darkness Block in the same turn, that one applies normally. Fox: When collecting blocks, keep one additional block of any material that doesn’t match the tile’s Collecting symbol, except for Redstone. Panda: When fighting mobs, you are protected from the first illager symbol you roll on the Fight die; any subsequent such symbol does take effect. Horse: When exploring the world, you may lay out two World Tiles instead of one, adding the blocks from both tiles into the pouch. Llama: You gain one extra Inventory slot, which can be used for any material—including Redstone. Setup the board. Place the plus-sign starting tile. Attach the Illager path. Place the Illager figure on spot 9 or 11. Divide the world tiles into three stacks of six (block side up) Insert one of each block (wood, sand, stone, darkness) into the pouch. Take three building cards from the nine available (based on desired difficulty); return the rest to the box. Place the three Darkness blocks on spaces 5, 6, and 7 of the Illagers Path. Game Play Turn Structure Each player performs 2 actions per turn: ...

Link to rules for the kids

Intro The church we are attending in Estonia, Grace Bible Church, uses the Second London Baptist Confession as their statement of faith. I really appreciate a church using a historic confession. It keeps you grounded in the historic faith and connects you to a line of believers. In general, I think it is a bad idea for a church to draft their own statement of faith. It tends to be idiosyncratic and too narrow (both in failing to address things that it should and addressing things that it shouldn’t). ...

This is a quick tool for helping you memorize Bible Verses or really any text. I use this as part of the process for memorizing verses, catechism, poems, or any text I want to remember before I put them in Anki. Anki is great for memorizing things that you already have a handle on. You don’t want to use it to learn a verse from scratch. This tool helps to gradually learn the text by removing parts until you can type the whole thing. It’s a quick and dirty solution, but gets the job done. ...

Why How to get the keyboard on a mac and iphone. TODO: add a screenshot of the keyboard

Preface I appreciate the focus on learning to read and write. Seeems to have a rigorous approach to learning the language at a deeper level. In general, this is a good thing. Language learning has been reduced to a lowest common denominator. The focus is not on learning the language in order to read, but learning the language enough to read a technical commentary. Pastors should have a deep understanding of their field. They should know their bibles, from the languages through to NT and OT issues, and up to theology and applied studies. The fundamentals of the languages are really important. ...

Linking Toc In My Docs This is a Hugo site. The nice thing about that for me is that all of my blog pages are written in markdown files. It makes it really portable and easily searchable. If I want to change something programatically, I can grep throught it all and do a find and replace in vim. Since it’s markdown, I can add any html that I need if I want to get fancy. ...

What These are my guides for anything Greek related. I’ll throw resources in here and try to keep it somewhat organized as I go. As always, use the Greek tag to find all the posts. Grammars I occasionally work through different Greek grammars. I used Black’s in seminary. I taught through Mounce’s at one point. Schwandt’s Grammar Notes It’s been a while and my greek is getting rusty, so I am working through Schwandt’s An Introduction To Biblical Greek A Grammar. I picked this one because I already had it in Logos, and I appreciate most things by Lexham Press. ...

What These are all of my study guides for my Latin studies. I’ve used a number of sources: Wheelock’s Latin Learn to Read Latin Lingua Latina Goals Throw together my own personal notes, charts, and anki decks. Non Goals Create a systematic set of notes. Map to a particular grammar. No attempt at comprehensiveness. Use the Latin tag to find all related notes.