Spiritual Toolbox: 18 Tips to Memorize Scripture

 
So, whether you want to memorize one verse or an entire book, try these strategies to help you remember more. 
1. Read it repeatedly. Did you know you can memorize Scripture during your morning devotion? Instead of zipping through your reading for the day, pause and camp on one verse for a long time. You won’t regret [...]

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Spiritual Toolbox: How to Invite Someone to Church

How to Invite Someone to Come to Church or to a Church Event with You
Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters… Isaiah 55:1
 
Remember to get as many people as possible to pray for the person, neighborhood, or area you want to evangelize. The more people involved and the more time spent in [...]

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Spiritual Toolbox: How to Prepare a Testimony Part 2

How to Prepare a Testimony II

Do you Fear Giving a Testimony?
We are called to take the spiritual initiative and be productive. Does God need to stir you up? Are you spiritually lazy or apathetic? Do your Christian activities line up to His revealed truth, or are they based on your plans and agenda? Has [...]

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Spiritual Toolbox: How to Discuss the Trinity

Theological Mathematics
"The mathematics of the Trinity doesn’t make sense.  How can three be one? But that’s the trouble with trying to understand the triune God by mathematics–He can’t be reduced to a formula." –unknown
Little Minds Trying to Understand a Big God
"The first thing the doctrine of the Trinity says to us is that there [...]

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Spiritual Toolbox: How to Prepare a Testimony I (Week-long series)

How to Prepare a Testimony I
By Dr. Richard J. Krejcir
 
To be an effective witness of our Lord, we need to have a well-prepared testimony!
We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ. [...]

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Spiritual Toolbox – Book Background Bible Study Method

How to Study the Bible: Method Eight – The Book Background Method of Bible Study ~ Chart: HTML / PDF
 
Tools 
Bible dictionary and/or bible encyclopedia
Bible handbook
Bible atlas
Various tools that allow you to experience in your time the environment of the Biblical cultures
 
8.2 – Steps 
Step 1 – Choose the subject or book of the Bible
Step 2 – [...]

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Spiritual Toolbox: Word Study Method of Bible Study

Method Seven – The Word Study Method of Bible Study ~ Chart: HTML / PDF
 
Tools
Bible and several alternate translations
Exhaustive concordance
Bible dictionary or encyclopedia
Set of word studies
English dictionary
 
Hints
·         Remember that often a single word in the original language may be replaced by many different words, or even phrases, when translated into English.
·         An exhaustive concordance such [...]

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Spiritual Toolbox: Topical Bible Study

Method Six – The Topical Method of Bible Study ~ Chart: HTML / PDF
 
Previously you encountered the Thematic Method of Bible study in which you studied a narrow theme of the Bible in simple detail asking prepared questions of verses from a chosen list. With the topical study you will study a topic of the [...]

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Spiritual Toolbox: How to Study the Bible – Biographical Method (Long)

Method Five – The Biographical Method of Bible Study ~ Chart: HTML / PDF
 
Tools
Bible
Exhaustive and/or biographical concordance
Topical Bible
Bible dictionary or encyclopedia
 
Hints
Remember that the person will often be referred to by means other than his/her proper name in many passages
 
Steps
Step 1 – Choose an individual from the Bible for your study. See the list below for [...]

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Spiritual Toolbox: Thematic Method of Bible Study

~ Chart: HTML / PDF

In the thematic method of Bible study you will approach a theme within the Bible and perform a basic study of it. It is shorter than the Topical Method of Bible study, which comes later in these notes, and is much less exhaustive in its scope. In a topical study you [...]

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