I am a visual learner.  I need to READ things to learn.  Hands-on learning, for me, conjures images of grease-covered hands tinkering with engines.  No thanks. 

However, for those of you who learn better aurally, I have lately been using this site to engage with scripture in a way that is new and refreshing.  The Daily Audio Bible lets you cover the whole bible in a year through their daily Podcast.  I am finding the daily readings very refreshing as I can engage with scripture in a way that is totally different to how I normally "read" the bible.

These guys are also breaking new ground in terms of the way in which they are forming an online  community around the daily reading of the scriptures, worship and prayer.  Sort-of like a virtual prayer room.  Awesome!

This is what they say about themselves:

Daily interaction with the Scriptures is the heart of all we do.  A deep and abiding friendship with Jesus informed by the rich texture of the Bible is the reason the Daily Audio Bible exists.  We believe that it is fundamental to every believer's healthy spiritual life that we be people seeking the counsel of the Bible every single day, that we be people who walk with God intimately and conversationally and that we live in community with one another.

Check them out - dive into the daily audio bible and let me know how it goes for you.

 

Peace out.

photo credit: JustinLowery.com

This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. - Joshua 1:8

There is true value and riches in meditation. From a Christian perspective, meditation on the Word of God is a powerful practice in our daily lives. The word "meditate" comes from the same root as our word "medicine" - Meditation is a way to literally think ourselves to health. When we meditate on the scriptures we ponder on them, savoring them, ruminating and musing over every word, every jot and title, allowing them to speak to us, wash over us, transform us.

For the word of God [is] living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart - Hebrews 4:12

....be transformed by the renewing of your mind.... - Romans 12:2

The scriptures have the power to penetrate deep into our hearts and in that deep place they "discern", they critique, our thoughts, ideas and concepts - aligning them with revealed truth and quickening these internal conversations of ours.  From this place of inner health and healing there arises a gushing of life that bursts forth and manifests itself as a business idea, or a new ministry concept - a manifestation of a coming Kingdom being reflected from a deep well of treasure within. Recommended reading:

• Biblical Meditation
• Eat This Book: A Conversation in the Art of Spiritual Reading