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Ancient Jewish Wisdom Doesn’t really have much to do with I.Q. or being “smart” Has everything to do with “orientation towards God” Being “Wise” is less about “being” wise and more about “getting” wise Gaining in Wisdom is merging right-thinking with right-action It’s about making Godly Choices and learning to apply God’s truths to life’s […]

God’s gift requires a response Paul wrote a letter to the group of believers who lived in Rome during the first century.  He spent the first half of that letter explaining that humanity was separated from God by their sin. He presented the details demonstrating that there was no way to bridge the gap between a sinful […]

Thanks for the Suggestion! A big “Thank You” to Christopher Cummings @chriscummings01 for this week’s verse suggestion.  I’m more than happy to receive suggestions for verses you’d like to memorize and then work them into the production schedule.  Feel free to connect with me and send suggestions via Twitter, Facebook or even through the comments […]

The Problem of Suffering I find the Book of Job a very difficult book to read.  It’s one of the ancient pieces of Wisdom Literature in the Bible so it’s structure can be a bit difficult to navigate. What makes maters worse is that much of what is written in Job is actually WRONG and […]

Paul Draws Attention to the Unseen World When Paul wrote his letter to the Ephesians he covered a lot of ground. He explains God’s Eternal Plan at work in the world and the mystery of God’s extension of the Gospel to the non-Jew. He talks about Unity in Christ He challenges us to be Spirit-Led and […]

Friend of God Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.  You are my friends if you do what I command.  I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business.  Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from […]

Can you imagine dining with Jesus and having him look at you and say:  “Go and learn what this means”? I think I would have scrambled for any scrap of paper I could find in order to write down whatever he said next.  (I’m a “write it down” person otherwise I tend to forget.)  Well […]

Have you ever heard of the Sermon on the Mount? When Matthew wrote his Gospel he spent a great deal of time recounting what he heard Jesus teach.  One of these long discourses is found in Matthew chapters 5 through 7. In fact, if you have a Red-Letter Edition of the Bible you’ll notice there […]

This week – You Have A Gift, Use It – 1 Peter 4:10-11 The Apostle Peter wrote a letter that we call 1st Peter.  It appears he wrote the letter while in Rome near the end of his life.  Somewhere in the late 50’s to early 60’s A.D. He wrote to hurting people.  People who […]

 A Tree Is Known By Its Fruit A good tree can’t produce bad fruit, and a bad tree can’t produce good fruit.  A tree is identified by its fruit. Figs are never gathered from thornbushes, and grapes are not picked from bramble bushes. A good person produces good things from the treasury of a good […]

Draw Near To God – This is the Language of Friendship James, Jesus’ brother writes:  “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.” James 4:7-8 I think […]

I believe in Jesus.  Now what? Walk In Him As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving. Colossians 2:6-7 Living for Jesus is a Daily Activity Walking implies action Movement implies […]

This week – Walk As Children Of Light – Ephesians 5:8-10 I don’t know about you, but in my life I wonder things like:  “What does it look like to follow Jesus?” “How can I make living for Jesus practical?” The Apostle Paul used a metaphor in his letter to the Ephesians that helps describe […]

These verses come at the end of a section of the first Corinthian Letter where Paul explains that he is compelled by God to let people know the Good News about Jesus. He explains that: “I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some.” (vs. 22b) The Apostle Paul […]

Run With Endurance Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy […]

Whoever Has The Son Has Life The Bible memory verse this week is known as an “Assurance Verse.” This is the type of verse you draw strength from when you doubt your salvation. It’ll help you encourage others through their times of doubt too. Why memorize a verse like this? Inevitably, when a person says: […]

Never Waste Pain For we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, of the affliction we experienced in Asia. For we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself. Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us rely not on ourselves […]

My Power, My Strength, My Wealth!  Really? 3400 years ago Moses was about to hand over the leadership of a new generation of Israelites to Joshua and he made an empassioned restatement of the Law and God’s Covenenant with Israel. We call this book:  Deuteronomy In fact, if you have a chance one day, read […]

Be Prepared To Give An Answer The Bible Verse this week is from 1 Peter chapter 3, verses 15 and 16.  This chapter contains a very familiar section (verse 15) which tells people who follow Jesus Christ that they must be prepared to give an answer.  We must be prepared to share our story. But why would anyone ask […]

All Sripture is God-Breathed This is what the Apostle Paul explained to Timothy.  We call this letter “2 Timothy” and it is most likely Paul’s final letter. Paul is in a Roman Prison… Paul is giving a lot of advice to this Pastor he has mentored.  He is reinforcing what he has taught Timothy over […]

Does the Bible have any impact in our lives? Well it can but it takes exposure to what it says.  That’s one of the main reasons for this Podcast – so that each of us can take what the Bible says, focus on it, and commit it to memory for later recall.  This let’s God use […]

This week two big Thank You’s! Katie1982 – for a kind 5 star review in iTunes.  This is my first review ever and I can’t tell you how encouraging it was to receive it.  Heinrich (Henry) for letting me know that Episode 021 – Pray for Wisdom In Trials  gave him courage to ask for wisdom […]

Pray For Wisdom In Trials In Episode 019 – Pray About Everything my curiosity was really sparked by the whole idea of truly praying about everything.  I mean, I can be pretty selfish so I’m kind of assuming that praying for $50 Million isn’t exactly what Paul meant when he wrote this from his first century jail cell […]

Pray To Know God’s Will Is this a crazy thing to do?  Is this how I should pray? In Episode 019 – Pray About Everything, we memorized Philippians 4:6-7 and those two verses really made me think:  What should I pray for? Well I found an example from Paul in his letter to the Colossians. There was […]

Why didn’t I notice this verse before? Sometimes I get asked why I use different translations. One reason is that a verse that I’ve become too familiar with will JUMP OUT AT ME when I read it in a translation I’m not completely familiar with. That’s exactly what happened to me a couple of weeks […]

Continuing with the theme:  God Uses Weak People Episode 016 – Keep It Simple! –  Just Christ and Him Crucified…  (This is Foolishness to someone who is far from God) Episode 017 – Preaching Foolishness – God is pleased to save through the “foolishness” of what is preached. God just seems to delight in using […]

Preaching Foolishness God just seems to delight in using common people with a simple message to spread His story of how we can get to Him through belief in His Son, Jesus. Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom […]

Keep it Simple! The Apostle Paul was trying to explain why his preaching wasn’t eloquent. It was on purpose. 1 Corinthians 2:2-5 For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling. My message and my […]

Jesus was crucified, buried and then rose from the dead on the third day. But then what happened? He restored Peter and answered Thomas’ questions He made various appearances to more than 500 of his followers He said to wait for the Father to send the gift of the Holy Spirit He gave last minute […]

Lost and Found Luke recorded many things that Jesus spoke to his followers. Luke captured Christ’s true heart for people when he recorded what Jesus said to, of all people, a tax collecctor.  (You know him as Zacchaeus.) “For the Son of Man came to seek and save those who are lost.” Luke 19:10 Pure […]

If We Confess Our Sins If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out […]

Be Filled With the Holy Spirit Sounds a little weird doesn’t it? I think we understand that we want to follow Christ.  I think we can make sense of:  Jesus died for my sins and now I’m right before God. But what’s all this “Holy Spirit” stuff? Jesus said he would help us in a […]

The Secret of Being Content Paul wrote a letter to a churh in Philippi – they had sent him some money because he was in great need and also to support the Church in Jerusalem. Why? Paul was in Prison. Out of that prison situation, Paul tells the Philippian Church – “I learned the secret […]

Ever heard that “Gospel” means “Good News”? Paul used this phrase in a letter to a church he founded in Corinth. We call the letter 1 Corinthians and the phrase “Good News” is in chapter 15 verse 1.  Actually, it depends on the Bible Translation you’re using.  If you are using a New International Version […]

God planned to redeem the human race from the very beginning. Sometimes I really need to remind myself of this.  Not because someone has annoyed me – far from that!  I simply mean that life has a way of causing me to forget about the big picture – God’s Plan!  I get far too caught […]

You need to Read Psalm 37. That’s what my wife, Debbie, wrote on the back of a card she bought for me last week.  She knew I needed encouragement. I must have read the 40 verses in that Psalm 4 or 5 different times.  Debbie knows me too well, and when she feels the Lord has […]

Ever heard that Jesus said “I am the Good Shepard?”   Jesus referred to people who are sold out to Him as “sheep.”  I guess you could say that being “sold out” is the same as being a follower. But who provides our security? The Good Shepherd.  Notice how this weeks memory verses show that […]

A Big Thank You for listening to this PodCast.  I honestly can’t believe it.  There have been downloads of Memorize The Bible With Me in Canada, the UK, Australia, Phillipines, Singapore and throughout the US. I’m not trying to say there are thousands – far from it – more like 200.  I’m just saying that I’m completely surprised.  Honestly […]

In Christ, the new has come! Before we put our faith in Jesus we were separated from God.  We could never be good enough.  At least not on our own. Yet there is still this tendency in all of us that thinks we can somehow make enough personal improvements in our lives that we can […]

An eyewitness account of what Jesus said to Martha after her brother died. That’s the context for the memory verse this week – John 11:25-27. Jesus was very close to Lazarus and his two sisters:  Mary and Martha. Lazarus had died and when Jesus came, Martha met him and said, “… if you had been […]

It was easy to decide which set of verses I wanted to memorize this week. I was talking with someone I have only met a couple of times before.  Let’s just call her Jan since what she talked about was kind of personal. She loves Jesus and wants to reflect Him in her life.  But […]

This is the first episode where we memorize some scripture together! I wanted to start off with a set of verses that I came across in early December – Hebrews 13:5-6.  I really wasn’t having a very great weekend as I recall – work pressures.  Numbers for year end were coming due and I was […]

In this introductory podcast, Dan introduces himself and explains why he wants to memorize bible verses and how you can join him.