Kynzie and I have made it to our first big milestone on our scripture memory journey! We’ve now memorized 25 verses together!!! Woo-hoo!!! It has taken time, but not that much. It’s taken effort, but it’s surprisingly not that overwhelming. It’s been hard, but not impossible. We may not make our goal of 66 by
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(Note: This is number three in my 3-part travel series chronicling our family trip to Washington, D.C. If you missed out on the previous posts, here’s Day One and Day Two.) This is the post I wasn’t sure I would have the courage to write. (At the entrance to a presidential exhibit at the Smithsonian
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Note: This post provides the backdrop for #28 in the list of 66 faith-filled Bible verses my granddaughter and I are memorizing together. We started at Genesis 1:1, and we’re working our way through the whole Bible, one verse from each book. And he did. Hosea married a cheater. Not the kind who didn’t
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As Kynzie (my granddaughter) and I approach the 29th verse on our quest to memorize one verse from each book of the Bible, we sense the momentum that has built along the way. By now, we’ve clearly heard and understood, verse by verse by verse, God’s plan and God’s heart for his people. He has
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(Note: In order to share all 66 verses I’m memorizing with my granddaughter this year, I’ll have to double up a time or two. This is a good time to combine two verses into one week, because these two principles go together like a hand in a spiritual glove. God’s requirements for man – and God’s
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Have you ever been homesick? I remember when I was first old enough to spend the night away from home. I packed a bag with my favorite jammies, tucked in my toothbrush and couldn’t wait for my mom to pull the car into the driveway at my friend’s house. It was all kinds of fun
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Nehemiah built that wall. Did that kinda make you laugh? I really hope so. Ok, sorry. Let’s get on to the story of Nehemiah. Let’s get serious here. No more jokes. I promise. Let’s review. Our last verse took us up to the point in Israel’s history when Cyrus, king of Persia had overthrown the
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Have you ever known someone who is simply beyond criticism? No one finds fault with that person because there’s just not any to find? These people aren’t perfect, of course, but for the very most part of their day, and inside the greatest percentage of their thoughts, these people exist in in a perpetual place
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How many times have you heard the 23rd Psalm? Besides The Lord’s Prayer, it is surely one of the most quoted, loved, and depended upon passages in the whole Bible. You might have even memorized the whole thing back in childhood Sunday school with all your first grade church friends. It’s comforting at funeral services.
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Dear Grandparent: This is #20 in a series of 66 Bible Faithbuilding Bible Verses to Memorize With Your Grandchildren. The thread that weaves itself through these verses, one from each book of the Bible, is designed to create a heart of strong faith in you and your grandchild as you commit them to memory together.
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Dear Grandparent: This is #21 in a series of 66 Bible Faith-building Bible Verses to Memorize With Your Grandchildren. The thread that weaves itself through these verses, one from each book of the Bible, is designed to create a heart of strong faith in you and your grandchild as you commit them to memory together.
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Dear Grandparent: This is #22 in a series of 66 Bible Faith-building Bible Verses to Memorize With Your Grandchildren. The thread that weaves itself through these verses, one from each book of the Bible, is designed to create a heart of strong faith in you and your grandchild as you commit them to memory together.
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Dear Grandparent: This is #23 in a series of 66 Bible Faith-building Bible Verses to Memorize With Your Grandchildren. The thread that weaves itself through these verses, one from each book of the Bible, is designed to create a heart of strong faith in you and your grandchild as you commit them to memory together.
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Dear Grandparent: This is a complete list of 66 faith-building Bible verses that I’m memorizing with my granddaughter. The whole idea was born out of my desire to leave behind the ultimate spiritual legacy inside the heart of my first grandchild and any who might follow after her. But don’t get the wrong idea. I was
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Dear Grandparent: This is #24 in a series of 66 Bible Faith-building Bible Verses to Memorize With Your Grandchildren. The thread that weaves itself through these verses, one from each book of the Bible, is designed to create a heart of strong faith in you and your grandchild as you commit them to memory together.
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Dear Grandparent: This is #25 in a series of 66 Bible Faith-building Bible Verses to Memorize With Your Grandchildren. The thread that weaves itself through these verses, one from each book of the Bible, is designed to create a heart of strong faith in you and your grandchild as you commit them to memory together.
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Dear Grandparent: This is #22 in a series of 66 Bible Faith-building Bible Verses to Memorize With Your Grandchildren. The thread that weaves itself through these verses, one from each book of the Bible, is designed to create a heart of strong faith in you and your grandchild as you commit them to memory together.
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Dear Grandparent: This is #23 in a series of 66 Bible Faith-building Bible Verses to Memorize With Your Grandchildren. The thread that weaves itself through these verses, one from each book of the Bible, is designed to create a heart of strong faith in you and your grandchild as you commit them to memory together.
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Dear Grandparent: This is a complete list of 66 faith-building Bible verses that I’m memorizing with my granddaughter. The whole idea was born out of my desire to leave behind the ultimate spiritual legacy inside the heart of my first grandchild and any who might follow after her. But don’t get the wrong idea. I was
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Dear Grandparent: This is #24 in a series of 66 Bible Faith-building Bible Verses to Memorize With Your Grandchildren. The thread that weaves itself through these verses, one from each book of the Bible, is designed to create a heart of strong faith in you and your grandchild as you commit them to memory together.
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