Reading the Bible

I think like most people, I find it hard sometimes to find time to read my Bible. It is not that I don’t want to read it or learn from its pages, I do and long for that knowledge, I just seem to get distracted. Growing up going to church, I always heard that it was imperative that you read your Bible. You must be in the Bible everyday in a quiet time or something to grow in Christ. I agree, we will love, serve, honor, ect. Christ more the more we know about him. So reading for me unconsciously and consciously at times has been a task to do. Something to check off of a list. If I can read through the Bible in a year, then I’ll be better for it. I’ve tried this method of study for some time. I do learn, but I feel like I forget it after a couple of days. I read the Bible but I’m not really learning that much. The word of God is not being that impressed upon my heart.

As I have been listening to different men of God, namely Paul Washer and John MacArthur I noticed that their method of study differs to what I’m used to. It is that of repetition. They a book of the Bible over and over again many times. I am going to try to adopt MacArthur’s recommended method of study. He recommends taking a small book or seven chapters of a book from the New Testament and reading it everyday for a month. While it may seem tedious after the tenth time by the thirtieth read you will have practically memorized it. I can’t say that I’ve ever done this before, but my roommate has done so with James and he knows that book inside and out. I think I’m  going to start with 1 John or Ephesians and then move onto John.

You can read more in detail about what MacArthur recommends or listen a short audio clip describing what I just laid out.

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The Rocks Cry Out – part 1

So I have had the name of my blog for many months now and I have yet to describe what it means or why I picked it. So here it goes. After initially settling on this name after a long road trip, I realized that this name can mean many things. Hopefully this will be a four part post.

The verse that this phrase comes out of is  Luke 19:37-40:

As he was drawing near – already on the way down the Mount of Olives – the whole multitude of his disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen, saying, “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!” And some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples.” He answered, “I tell you, if these were silent, the very stones would cry out.”

Now before I go into the meaning of this text in its context, I am going to take it from its context, Something that I usually can’t stand. I’ll get to the primary meaning later.

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Deception is terrifying

I didn’t realize how deception is terrifying until I understood that I had been deceived. First before I make my point I am going to do so by using creationism. That is not my point so don’t get lost in my example, particularly if you don’t agree with the example. It is merely to illustrate a greater reality. Here it goes.

Growing up, and into college I had an elementary view of evolution. On one hand I believed in God and on the other I usually took science as fact. I was enthralled with science. I loved it in class and always wanted to learn more, especially the way things work. I did not really have a stance on evolution and particularly took it as false because that is what most of the christian people I respected said. Though I always thought that there must be some sort of truth to it. In college I began to search out the matter for myself.

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