the chronological read has truly been rewarding … if nothing but to understand that the table of contents in most Bibles does not represent truly the sequence of how things occurred …
I’ve been considering chronological Bible reading. The hesitation comes from how much of it is conjecture, and man’s interpretation some dates we know, some we do not, and some are hotly debated.
@@michaelclark2458 the ESV Chronological Bible is very good with that. It includes charts and things like that and whenever the dating is not sure it makes it clear. I'm enjoying it!
I agree with your wife about reading and listening to the Bible at the same time. This has been very beneficial to me. I’m not sure how it came up in conversation, but I suggested it to an older gentleman at my church a couple of weeks ago. Last Sunday he up to me excited to tell me how much he loved reading and listening at the same time.
I have the ESV Readers' edition on Kindle. It has no verses or footnotes, and so I can listen to Kindle read it at 4X speed while I read along with it. Having two senses (eyes and ears) engaged simultaneously helps me stay focused. That I can read it at 4X also helps me to read large sections of Scripture to better get a "bird's eye view" of the bigger picture.
About taking notes during the sermon, my favorite thing to do is listen in church without taking notes and then listen to the sermon online that afternoon and take notes.
Wonderful. I think I may start encouraging my parishoners to do this. Keller, in his book on preaching, said there are times when note-taking can actually be detrimental at times (we're too busy trying to recall what the pastor just said, rather than worshipping in the moment at the greatness of God in Christ as it is being preached).
2:01 Use the Margins/Highlight 4:14 Notebooks 4:50 Memorizing 5:22 Switch Translations 6:30 Learn Greek/Hebrew 7:55 Different Language Translations 8:43 Write Out the Scriptures 9:37 Chronological Bible 10:40 Listening to the Bible 11:24 Sermon Notes 12:50 Family Devotions 14:07 Reading the Bible Out Loud
I started reading the Bible in Spanish and have been learning about new words in English that I just glossed over in the past. Reading in a different language helps a lot!
Sometimes it will read in a different tense than in English. The Spanish/English readings can show one where decisions were made in interpretations and perhaps where either Spanish and/or English might be deficient in directly translating a thought exactly.
Yeah, I come from a bilingual community (Gaelic & English) and whenever we were wrestling with a verse it was always worth checking it in Gaelic as it's a superb translation and, since Gaelic is often more expressive than English (more words for the same concept) it often shed light on the text.
YouVersion has been a great help for me. I’m able to listen to Scripture in English, Spanish, and German. Each year since 2016 I read/study the entire Bible using various plans. I always go back and use a printed version of Scripture. I do enjoy reading aloud the Scripture especially in light of Revelation 1:3
The Geneva Bible is really interesting, especially with the translation notes. 100% recommend. I homeschool my kids so I am using that as an opportunity to learn biblical Greek.
Thank you for this excellent list of ideas. I have a very good friend who is a baby Christian, and I’d like to start reading a gospel out loud with him, maybe a paragraph at a time, stop and discuss. Similar to what you described with family devotions. You’ve been vert encouraging with your videos, thanks again.
Although I'm not Reformed or Calvinist, I thoroughly enjoy your videos, Matthew. I just throw out the bad and keep the good! 😉 Your discipline and faithfulness are an encouragement in my walk of faith. Thanks! And, God's blessings!
It caught my attention when you mentioned about taking notes during your Revelation sermons. I thought it might encourage you to know that my husband and I get together with our pastor and his wife once a week to study Revelation. To prepare each week we read the passage and then listen to your sermon (or David’s) on that passage, take notes, and then we get together and talk about it. Your online sermons have been a real blessing to us. We are in chapter 20 currently, so this has been a long time endeavour. Blessings from Alberta, Canada
Another idea, in case no one has mentioned it, is to read out loud and record scriptures with your own voice. This has really helped me to focus on the word of God. Then you can listen to it later as you go about your day.
Great ideas, thanks. I’m doing a chronological reading for the first time this year. Rather than buy a new bible I downloaded a read through the Bible in a year chronologically pdf file. It’s cheaper and works with all my translations.
I often think if I had my grandparents thoughts on their life long devotions, sermons and personal Bible studies. Wish I had been diligent when my child was young and started writing early.
This was so timely. It was what I’ve been praying about. I got every translation and study Bible possible over the last two months. But I haven’t had a plan aside from reading the daily Charles Stanley. Life principles in the NASB95, but I’m trying to find ways to keep reading and figuring out which translation to start with. I’m glad this popped up as I prayed the day before for guidance.
Man, alive, how I'd love to learn Hebrew and Greek. As much as I love to learn things in general, this never really even occurred to me in all these decades. I think I assumed it was totally inaccessible/over my head. It probably is. But I should have at least tried. It would have to be something in person, though. My eyes are burned out from so many years of screen staring. It's really starting to scare me. The thought of not being able to read anymore in general, but especially God's Word, fills me with terror. I'm not anywhere near that yet, but... it's dawning on me that it may become a very real possibility in the not so distant future. Hopefully Jesus will return or take me Home before then!
Thank you so much, Pastor Matt! Great ideas! I am sharing this with my Bible study group. We are already doing some of these and it is really wonderful.
One more suggestion on note taking in your Bible. Look for and write down the attributes of God you observe in a passage. God loves to reveal himself to us in scripture and I find that listing his attributes never gets old, and I never run out of things to observe about Him.
I'm the same way with reading the Bible through at least once a year. My second time through this year was a csb chronological Bible. I love the NT chronologically. After the gospels, Acts is basically the backbone of the whole NT. You read about the establishment of a church, then read the letters to them.
I'd give anything to have a family of my own so we could do family devotions. And also homeschooling. The idea that people have families and choose not to do one or both of these is mind boggling to me. What's even the point of having a family if you're not going to pour into them that way? I just don't get it. Give your kids to me! I'll do it!
Hi Matt. I enjoy your channel. Keep up the good work! A few times in this good presentation you mentioned the folks God has called you to shepherd as "my people." As a graduate of both Dallas and Trinity Evangelical Divinity, I have heard this descriptor from many pastors. I get why it is used as a shorthand of sorts for the august responsibility of being a pastor. I do think there are better ways to describe the sobering charge of a pastor without using two words that can come across as unbiblically authoritarian.
Family devotional our church uses is Old story new and long story short. If you don’t know where to start on family devotions that’s a great one. Just follow along. Much better than doing nothing at all.
during my chronological read, came to realize Josiah read to Judah from ‘The Book of the Law’ (although they wouldn’t listen) … after the captives returned … Ezra and Nehemiah read to them from ‘The Book of the Law’ (trying to build them up spiritually) …
Thank you for the reminder about reading in a different language! I understand spoken Spanish. I wish I had practiced speaking it growing up. But outside of reading maybe signs on the street or a few lines of newspaper/magazine articles that my father would have around, I've never read it. I've been toying with the idea of reading at least the New Testament. The OT would surely be the end of me! What I wish is that there existed a Spanish equivalent to the ESV. Otherwise my brain will be confused with not just two languages, but two translations. But I don't think that exists. The Reina-Valera is over my skill level. The NVI, which is equivalent to the English NIV, might be my best bet.
I’m learning Spanish now! RV is most similar to the ESV. Same publisher. It has been rewarding to listen to Ligonier Ministries in Spanish, particularly Sugel Michelon. God bless.
@@brian791 Hm, I hope not. Then I'm in trouble. Oh, I didn't know Ligonier has Spanish messages! That will help prime my brain, as I am used to hearing conversational, everyday Spanish, not biblical content. Will have to check it out, thanks.
@@brian791 Oh, cool, he has a message on the history of the Bible in Spanish! I look forward to watching that after I'm done with work stuff. Thanks again.
You have shared a lot of very good information and guidance in your video. I have saved it to view and view it again. But I think you have lost the ball in the weeds. Much of what say is very good for reading for Bible study. In and out of notes and charts and quotes are 16:02 good for digging into the Word with the purpose of academic study. But it is confusing for simple devotional reading. There are times in the day I want to sit down with or without a devotional pamphlet and just read to let the Word speak to my heart. I might want to underline a couple of verses for an indepht study or chasing through one of my study Bibles, of which I have several. Having so much information at hand gets in the way of just listening to the Word. And yes, straight reading out loud of the Word from straight simple text only Bible with a minimum of "extras " is best. I don't need to be chasing squirrels. Here I am referencing the delightful movie "Up." How many times does Doug the talking dog lose his thoughts to the humans when a squirrel pops into the conversation and Doug loses his thoughts. To me, it is the numerous study helps in found in study Bibles and other annotated sources become the squirrels that can make quiet time devotional reading disrupt the Lord speaking to my heart. Those study helps can make Bible reading work and confusing work. I am at that stage in my Bible reading. And it is why I have been searching for a path to make it alive again. I think I have found the path. (FYI, I am 74 years old and soon to crest that three-quarter century mark of life. I am a theological conservative, confessional Lutheran (LCMS) layman who has helped with pulpit fill situations.) To help with my devotional reading, I am moving to an EHV text Bible, one column, minimal helps to help chase away the squirrels. Yes, I will be able to underline, highlight, and make notes and thoughts in the margins for follow-up and future indepth study, I need that straight Word speaking to me (large print helps, too). This differential is what is missing in this video. I will be viewing and no doubt saving many of your videos. For your comments on family devotionals, I would suggest the use of your denominational Catechism to teach the Word. For us Lutherans, we have the Small Catechism (with explanations, even for the youngest of baby Christians). I personally believe that when believing parents-to-be read out loud and pray out over the baby in the womb, we are teaching the faith to that child. It is written that faith comes by hearing the Word. Thank for what are teaching us in your videos. May the Lord continue to bless your work. Amen.
Any tips for somebody that does not like to take notes due to spelling and penmanship. I don’t mind putting myself out here, but I wasn’t a fan of school. I passed by the skin of my teeth. I do enjoy listening to the Bible . That is how I start off every morning at work. I am more an audible learner than reading. Saying that I enjoy listening to a lot of sermons when I’m at work too.
Yeah, initiial language courses online is a fantastic way to fail, or worse, put yourself permanently in the, "Know enough to be dangerous," category. If you can't take/audit a course, at least ask someone who does know the languages if they'll tutor. Most of us need the excuse to review our foundations. Also, Wifey and I are doing Chronological Reading this year. I do recommend it as an option. And yes, as Reformed, family devotions should be the norm. As they have been throughout our heritage.
The Lord impressed on your heart that you should be in the word everyday sounds a little charismatic brother. Remember God doesnt speak outside of His word anymore, Did you have a verse that God illumined to read the bible everyday?
“This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.” Joshua 1:8
Oh my! I’m sad that you don’t know that God uses the Holy Spirit to guide us or “impress upon our hearts” to seek Him. John 16:12-14. John 14:26. Let’s not go to the extreme of severe legalism.
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"We're the Everhard family. We're Presbyterian. We do family devotions." Pure gold.
I switched to NLT it's been good
the chronological read has truly been rewarding … if nothing but to understand that the table of contents in most Bibles does not represent truly the sequence of how things occurred …
I’ve been considering chronological Bible reading. The hesitation comes from how much of it is conjecture, and man’s interpretation some dates we know, some we do not, and some are hotly debated.
@@michaelclark2458 the ESV Chronological Bible is very good with that. It includes charts and things like that and whenever the dating is not sure it makes it clear. I'm enjoying it!
I've been following you for several weeks. God has blessed you with amazing gifts to teach and preach. Thank you so much for your ministry!
I agree with your wife about reading and listening to the Bible at the same time. This has been very beneficial to me. I’m not sure how it came up in conversation, but I suggested it to an older gentleman at my church a couple of weeks ago. Last Sunday he up to me excited to tell me how much he loved reading and listening at the same time.
I think listening to a Bible narration like the one provided by the ESV app has been tremendously helpful.
I have the ESV Readers' edition on Kindle. It has no verses or footnotes, and so I can listen to Kindle read it at 4X speed while I read along with it. Having two senses (eyes and ears) engaged simultaneously helps me stay focused. That I can read it at 4X also helps me to read large sections of Scripture to better get a "bird's eye view" of the bigger picture.
About taking notes during the sermon, my favorite thing to do is listen in church without taking notes and then listen to the sermon online that afternoon and take notes.
Wonderful. I think I may start encouraging my parishoners to do this. Keller, in his book on preaching, said there are times when note-taking can actually be detrimental at times (we're too busy trying to recall what the pastor just said, rather than worshipping in the moment at the greatness of God in Christ as it is being preached).
2:01 Use the Margins/Highlight
4:14 Notebooks
4:50 Memorizing
5:22 Switch Translations
6:30 Learn Greek/Hebrew
7:55 Different Language Translations
8:43 Write Out the Scriptures
9:37 Chronological Bible
10:40 Listening to the Bible
11:24 Sermon Notes
12:50 Family Devotions
14:07 Reading the Bible Out Loud
I started reading the Bible in Spanish and have been learning about new words in English that I just glossed over in the past. Reading in a different language helps a lot!
Sometimes it will read in a different tense than in English. The Spanish/English readings can show one where decisions were made in interpretations and perhaps where either Spanish and/or English might be deficient in directly translating a thought exactly.
Yeah, I come from a bilingual community (Gaelic & English) and whenever we were wrestling with a verse it was always worth checking it in Gaelic as it's a superb translation and, since Gaelic is often more expressive than English (more words for the same concept) it often shed light on the text.
YouVersion has been a great help for me. I’m able to listen to Scripture in English, Spanish, and German. Each year since 2016 I read/study the entire Bible using various plans. I always go back and use a printed version of Scripture. I do enjoy reading aloud the Scripture especially in light of Revelation 1:3
The Geneva Bible is really interesting, especially with the translation notes. 100% recommend. I homeschool my kids so I am using that as an opportunity to learn biblical Greek.
Thank you for this excellent list of ideas. I have a very good friend who is a baby Christian, and I’d like to start reading a gospel out loud with him, maybe a paragraph at a time, stop and discuss. Similar to what you described with family devotions. You’ve been vert encouraging with your videos, thanks again.
Although I'm not Reformed or Calvinist, I thoroughly enjoy your videos, Matthew. I just throw out the bad and keep the good! 😉
Your discipline and faithfulness are an encouragement in my walk of faith.
Thanks! And, God's blessings!
Yes, I love to write Scripture, listen and read, and read it aloud to myself. And all the notebooks.
It caught my attention when you mentioned about taking notes during your Revelation sermons. I thought it might encourage you to know that my husband and I get together with our pastor and his wife once a week to study Revelation. To prepare each week we read the passage and then listen to your sermon (or David’s) on that passage, take notes, and then we get together and talk about it. Your online sermons have been a real blessing to us. We are in chapter 20 currently, so this has been a long time endeavour. Blessings from Alberta, Canada
I find reading while listening, or reading out loud is very helpful and beneficial.
Writing scripture is so underrated!
Another idea, in case no one has mentioned it, is to read out loud and record scriptures with your own voice. This has really helped me to focus on the word of God. Then you can listen to it later as you go about your day.
Great ideas, thanks.
I’m doing a chronological reading for the first time this year. Rather than buy a new bible I downloaded a read through the Bible in a year chronologically pdf file. It’s cheaper and works with all my translations.
Thank you, Bro Matthew for investing your valuable time to share your ideas with our YT community
Thanks Pastor Matthew, gained several new ideas.
I often think if I had my grandparents thoughts on their life long devotions, sermons and personal Bible studies. Wish I had been diligent when my child was young and started writing early.
This was so timely. It was what I’ve been praying about. I got every translation and study Bible possible over the last two months. But I haven’t had a plan aside from reading the daily Charles Stanley. Life principles in the NASB95, but I’m trying to find ways to keep reading and figuring out which translation to start with. I’m glad this popped up as I prayed the day before for guidance.
Man, alive, how I'd love to learn Hebrew and Greek. As much as I love to learn things in general, this never really even occurred to me in all these decades. I think I assumed it was totally inaccessible/over my head. It probably is. But I should have at least tried. It would have to be something in person, though. My eyes are burned out from so many years of screen staring. It's really starting to scare me. The thought of not being able to read anymore in general, but especially God's Word, fills me with terror. I'm not anywhere near that yet, but... it's dawning on me that it may become a very real possibility in the not so distant future. Hopefully Jesus will return or take me Home before then!
thank you. all great ideas, i will start to apply some today.
Thank you so much, Pastor Matt! Great ideas! I am sharing this with my Bible study group. We are already doing some of these and it is really wonderful.
I’ve been watching your channel for quite awhile but never noticed the resources you have under links. Thank you so much!
Thank you for the great video, Pastor Matthew!
why can't i find a pastor like you anywhere near me?
They are hard to find.
Amen to that!
Thank you again. Do you have any videos on methods for taking sermon notes?
Love the Geneva Bible. I have the Revised Geneva Bible, and the original print with the notes. Fascinating translation.
One more suggestion on note taking in your Bible. Look for and write down the attributes of God you observe in a passage. God loves to reveal himself to us in scripture and I find that listing his attributes never gets old, and I never run out of things to observe about Him.
Amen!
I'm the same way with reading the Bible through at least once a year. My second time through this year was a csb chronological Bible. I love the NT chronologically. After the gospels, Acts is basically the backbone of the whole NT. You read about the establishment of a church, then read the letters to them.
Thank you for what you do here! Do you have any advice for men that came to faith later in life and whose kids are already in the double digits?
I'd give anything to have a family of my own so we could do family devotions. And also homeschooling. The idea that people have families and choose not to do one or both of these is mind boggling to me. What's even the point of having a family if you're not going to pour into them that way? I just don't get it. Give your kids to me! I'll do it!
❤You must have a big heart for kids. Maybe you should be involved in your church’s children’s ministry.
Hi Matt. I enjoy your channel. Keep up the good work! A few times in this good presentation you mentioned the folks God has called you to shepherd as "my people." As a graduate of both Dallas and Trinity Evangelical Divinity, I have heard this descriptor from many pastors. I get why it is used as a shorthand of sorts for the august responsibility of being a pastor. I do think there are better ways to describe the sobering charge of a pastor without using two words that can come across as unbiblically authoritarian.
Family devotional our church uses is Old story new and long story short. If you don’t know where to start on family devotions that’s a great one. Just follow along. Much better than doing nothing at all.
Wondering if you'll do a video on Steven Lawson when more info is publicly available, and how we should respond?
during my chronological read, came to realize Josiah read to Judah from ‘The Book of the Law’ (although they wouldn’t listen) … after the captives returned … Ezra and Nehemiah read to them from ‘The Book of the Law’ (trying to build them up spiritually) …
Thank you for the reminder about reading in a different language! I understand spoken Spanish. I wish I had practiced speaking it growing up. But outside of reading maybe signs on the street or a few lines of newspaper/magazine articles that my father would have around, I've never read it. I've been toying with the idea of reading at least the New Testament. The OT would surely be the end of me! What I wish is that there existed a Spanish equivalent to the ESV. Otherwise my brain will be confused with not just two languages, but two translations. But I don't think that exists. The Reina-Valera is over my skill level. The NVI, which is equivalent to the English NIV, might be my best bet.
I’m learning Spanish now! RV is most similar to the ESV. Same publisher. It has been rewarding to listen to Ligonier Ministries in Spanish, particularly Sugel Michelon. God bless.
@@brian791 Hm, I hope not. Then I'm in trouble. Oh, I didn't know Ligonier has Spanish messages! That will help prime my brain, as I am used to hearing conversational, everyday Spanish, not biblical content. Will have to check it out, thanks.
@@brian791 Oh, cool, he has a message on the history of the Bible in Spanish! I look forward to watching that after I'm done with work stuff. Thanks again.
You have shared a lot of very good information and guidance in your video. I have saved it to view and view it again. But I think you have lost the ball in the weeds. Much of what say is very good for reading for Bible study. In and out of notes and charts and quotes are 16:02 good for digging into the Word with the purpose of academic study. But it is confusing for simple devotional reading. There are times in the day I want to sit down with or without a devotional pamphlet and just read to let the Word speak to my heart. I might want to underline a couple of verses for an indepht study or chasing through one of my study Bibles, of which I have several. Having so much information at hand gets in the way of just listening to the Word. And yes, straight reading out loud of the Word from straight simple text only Bible with a minimum of "extras " is best. I don't need to be chasing squirrels. Here I am referencing the delightful movie "Up." How many times does Doug the talking dog lose his thoughts to the humans when a squirrel pops into the conversation and Doug loses his thoughts. To me, it is the numerous study helps in found in study Bibles and other annotated sources become the squirrels that can make quiet time devotional reading disrupt the Lord speaking to my heart. Those study helps can make Bible reading work and confusing work. I am at that stage in my Bible reading. And it is why I have been searching for a path to make it alive again. I think I have found the path. (FYI, I am 74 years old and soon to crest that three-quarter century mark of life. I am a theological conservative, confessional Lutheran (LCMS) layman who has helped with pulpit fill situations.) To help with my devotional reading, I am moving to an EHV text Bible, one column, minimal helps to help chase away the squirrels. Yes, I will be able to underline, highlight, and make notes and thoughts in the margins for follow-up and future indepth study, I need that straight Word speaking to me (large print helps, too). This differential is what is missing in this video. I will be viewing and no doubt saving many of your videos. For your comments on family devotionals, I would suggest the use of your denominational Catechism to teach the Word. For us Lutherans, we have the Small Catechism (with explanations, even for the youngest of baby Christians). I personally believe that when believing parents-to-be read out loud and pray out over the baby in the womb, we are teaching the faith to that child. It is written that faith comes by hearing the Word. Thank for what are teaching us in your videos. May the Lord continue to bless your work. Amen.
Any tips for somebody that does not like to take notes due to spelling and penmanship. I don’t mind putting myself out here, but I wasn’t a fan of school. I passed by the skin of my teeth.
I do enjoy listening to the Bible . That is how I start off every morning at work. I am more an audible learner than reading. Saying that I enjoy listening to a lot of sermons when I’m at work too.
Please link the Spanish -English parallel Bible.
Nay i aak for the pdf file?
Yeah, initiial language courses online is a fantastic way to fail, or worse, put yourself permanently in the, "Know enough to be dangerous," category. If you can't take/audit a course, at least ask someone who does know the languages if they'll tutor. Most of us need the excuse to review our foundations.
Also, Wifey and I are doing Chronological Reading this year. I do recommend it as an option.
And yes, as Reformed, family devotions should be the norm. As they have been throughout our heritage.
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That little girl at the table has a BIG hand! Must be a heavy Bible...?
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The Lord impressed on your heart that you should be in the word everyday sounds a little charismatic brother. Remember God doesnt speak outside of His word anymore, Did you have a verse that God illumined to read the bible everyday?
“This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.”
Joshua 1:8
God “impressing” on our heart is nowhere near “God spoke to me.” God is always prompting us BY impressing on our hearts.
@coryscook91 What chapter is this information you are speaking about from ?
Oh my! I’m sad that you don’t know that God uses the Holy Spirit to guide us or “impress upon our hearts” to seek Him. John 16:12-14. John 14:26. Let’s not go to the extreme of severe legalism.
You would hate the puritans 😅
TRUTH or TRUTHY? in the beginning, baby god was not breast-fed, so humanity was drowned like so many unloved kittens.
Take your gibberish elsewhere.
13:10 The hands on that little girl - AI did her wrong!