Holy Habit – Delight in His Word

Reading plans:

· https://replicate.org/resources/reading-plans

· 5 places – equal chapters daily starting in Genesis, Joshua, Job, Isaiah, and Matthew

Meditating on the Bible:

· Emphasize different words in the text. How does this affect the meaning?

· Rewrite the text in your own words

· Formulate a principle from the text. What does it teach?

· Think of an illustration of the text – What picture explains it?

· Look for an application of the text

· Ask how the text points to the Law or the Gospel

· Ask how the text points to something about Jesus

· Ask what question is answered or what problem is solved by the text

· Pray through the text

· Memorize the text

· Create an artistic expression of the text

· Ask the Philippians 4:8 questions of the text – What is true, honorable, just, pure, lovely, commendable, excellent, or praiseworthy about it?

· Joseph Hall Questions:

o What is it (define and/or describe what it is) you are meditating on?

o What are its divisions or parts?

o What causes it?

o What does it cause; that is, what are its fruits and effects?

o What is its place, location, or use?

o What are its qualities and attachments?

o What is contrary, contradictory, or different to it?

o What compares to it?

o What are its titles or names?

o What are the testimonies or examples of Scripture about it?

· Set and discover a minimum number of insights from the text

· Find a link or common thread between the paragraphs or chapters you read

· Ask how the texts speaks to your current issue or question

· Use meditation mapping (like a mind map)

Favorite Bible Intake Methods from the Staff:

· Erik Erby

o F260 Bible Plan on YouVersion Bible App

o Podcast – Unashamed with the Robertson Family

o Podcast – The Forgotten Jesus Podcast

· Jody Maxwell

o The Bible Recap – App

· Jim McReynolds

o Bibleref.com

o The Bible Project – YouTube

o Spoken Gospel - YouTube

· Katherine Paul

o Podcast - Call her Holy with Nicoletta Bradley and Laura Eldridge

o Podcast - Becoming Something by Jonothan Pokluda

o Listening to the Bible App

· Katie Olson

o Sermon from David Jeremiah and Charles Stanley

o Listening to the Bible App

· Linda Hambrick

o Sermons online

· Dana Southern

o Through the Word – App

· Landon Boehmisch

o The AC podcasts

o Bibleproject

o Anything Wesley Huff is in