Scripture Memory 2012: Verse 2

From our first verse, it looks like we have about 35 people participating. How awesome! I pray that we won't lose a single person as we go through this year. In fact, I pray we'll keep growing. If you know people that would still like to join, remind them that it's not too late since officially the goal is posting 21 out of 24 times.

A wonderful "problem" of having so many people participate is that we have quite a few duplicate names. From now on, let's post our first name, last initial, and where we live. That will help us keep people straight and hopefully help us get to know each other more easily in this little online community. So with that in mind, here's my verse for this time around:

Megan L. from San Marcos: If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not keep a tight rein on his tongue, he deceives himself and his religion is worthless. James 1:26 NIV

I really enjoyed reading through your selected Bible verses last time. It was neat to read what some of you wrote about why you picked your verse. I'm excited to read round two, so have at it!

Scripture Memory 2012: Verse 1

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I'm so excited to start this memory verse challenge, and I hope you are too!

It’s time to choose your first memory verse (out of 24) for 2012! If you haven’t done so already, please read the instructions from the post on December 19th. It will tell you everything you need to know.

Just a quick refresher: sometime today, post the Scripture passage you have chosen by leaving a comment below. Be sure your comment includes the following details:

First name, verse, reference, and version.

To get things started, here is my first Scripture entry of 2012:

Megan: Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of Life set me free from the law of sin and death. Romans 8:1-2 NIV

Since I have a 4 day-old newborn, I made it easy on myself this time around and used a verse I did from last year. Please feel free to take it easy whenever you need to as well. Use a verse you already know or find a very simple, short verse. This helps make the challenge not feel overwhelming. Remember what Beth said in her instructions: "it's a marathon, not a sprint!" Another time you might want to have more of a challenge and memorize a multi-verse passage. It's completely up to you!

Be sure to handwrite the verse in your spiral notebook of index cards to help engrave it on your mind. You might want to write your contact information on the inside cover in case you leave it somewhere and God causes someone gracious to find it.

If you are the kind of person who likes to underline, highlight, or otherwise mark in your Bible, I thought it was neat last year to underline and date each verse as I memorized it. Now it's fun when I'm reading the Bible to come across verses I memorized last year. I stop and make sure I can still say them so that they stay in my long-term memory.

And one last encouragement from Beth: "Through the power of the Holy Spirit, we can do this! Remember, KEEP IT SIMPLE AND MEANINGFUL!"