tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17816797560305640712024-03-18T23:36:19.796-05:00Contestants Accountability ForumSophiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06493482262554150002noreply@blogger.comBlogger128125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781679756030564071.post-2199842905602795962013-05-13T15:44:00.000-05:002013-05-13T15:44:23.612-05:00WordSowers Scripture Tellers School
I would like to let you know about the WordSower Scripture Tellers School. www.wordsower.org
The dates for the school are July 9-26th and it will be held in Winterset, IA. I have wanted to participate in this training for about 2 years (since I first heard about it) but it is usually held in Oregon. The cost for this opportunity is $500 plus travel costs (which includes meals, housing, and Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781679756030564071.post-61877923948293367612013-01-12T21:34:00.002-06:002013-01-12T21:34:53.406-06:00Thoughts on 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
"Rejoice always, praying without ceasing, in everything gives thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you." ~ 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
Wow. Those are some challenging commands to follow. Does it really mean to rejoice always? To pray without ceasing? To give thanks in everything? These were (and still are) some of my initial thoughts about Hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04645192577507750841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781679756030564071.post-80109569184371593752012-12-23T13:19:00.001-06:002013-01-10T18:43:23.080-06:00Bringing the Word to ChadThis has to be one of the most beautiful things ever.
http://www.pioneers.org/multiply/chad.aspxAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01159500469049458579noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781679756030564071.post-58421260408149857312012-11-10T17:19:00.001-06:002012-11-10T20:31:58.900-06:00Be Thou My VisionAs we national contestants prepare these last few days, may the words of this song be our prayer:
Be Thou my Vision, O Lord of my heart;
Naught be all else to me, save that Thou art-
Thou my best thought, by day or by night,
Waking or sleeping, Thy presence my light.
Be Thou my Wisdom, and Thou my true Word;
I ever with Thee and Thou with me, Lord;
Thou my great Father, Hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04645192577507750841noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781679756030564071.post-46823952649139837262012-10-13T21:32:00.000-05:002012-10-13T21:46:16.056-05:00We've been hearing the Word a lot recently...For all of you participating in the National Bible Bee this year, I'm sure that you agree that you've been hearing the Word a lot. We've all been studying it for hours on end. We've been memorizing it and getting into our minds constantly. What a great opportunity this has been! To think that we are able spend hours at a time just absorbing the very Word of God.
So yes, we've Hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04645192577507750841noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781679756030564071.post-6935016559657831322012-07-24T20:20:00.002-05:002012-07-24T22:41:54.175-05:00When the going gets tough....Summer is a busy season! Every week holds its own excitements, trials, and obstacles to overcome. The biggest obstacle for me to overcome each week is finding time to do everything! And sometimes it can get a little overwhelming. I start doing things with less energy and enthusiasm. I skim through the Sword Study, run through my verses quickly; to check it off the list. I start Hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04645192577507750841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781679756030564071.post-46204505192199693292012-07-03T14:00:00.002-05:002012-10-31T00:18:04.011-05:00Greetings and Advice from a Bible Bee Alumni :)As I look on this year of BB I am excited yet somewhat sad. This is my first year of not officially participating the Bible Bee. :( But... I know that all the verses I learned over the past three years and all the books we studied (Genesis, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, Matthew, Acts, Romans, Colossians, 1 Peter, 2 Peter) will remain forever. And all the study habits we all learned Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3USA41.8780025 -93.09770238.6444335 -98.151412999999991 45.111571500000004 -88.043991tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781679756030564071.post-55530565252968265842012-06-05T20:13:00.002-05:002012-06-05T20:13:41.636-05:00A New Beginning...
Well, another year of Bible Bee studying has started. What an exciting time! As I start to plan out my summer schedule, I'm realizing that this summer is going to be packed full with many activities and learning experiences. I'm eager to dig in to all that God has put in my path. But I need to remember to keep the main thing the main thing. No matter what I Hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04645192577507750841noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781679756030564071.post-27532056749947467842012-05-03T05:30:00.000-05:002012-05-03T06:17:21.361-05:00Faithfulness In Those Little Things.
I've been thinking a lot about faithfulness. About being faithful in the little things. You know, the little things we do everyday; school work, chores, practicing music, and the list goes on. Many times we overlook these things. We skim over them as unimportant.
We can get excited about doing the "big" things; the things that "hold significance." As young people, we can'tHannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04645192577507750841noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781679756030564071.post-66503231351169222722012-04-15T23:05:00.000-05:002012-04-15T23:05:39.650-05:00I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can"‘One word. All you’ve been saying is quite right, I shouldn’t wonder. I’m a chap who always liked to know the worst and then put the best face I can on it. So I won’t deny any of what you said. But there’s one thing more to be said, even so. Suppose we have only dreamed, or made up, all those things–trees and grass and sun and moon and stars and Aslan himself. Suppose we have. Then all I Abigailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00929773624624628429noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781679756030564071.post-89344970028630136912012-04-05T19:03:00.001-05:002012-04-05T19:03:43.144-05:00God's Perfect Plan"For I know the thoughts that I have towards you," says the Lord, "thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope." ~Jeremiah 29:11
This verse has been of great encouragement to me lately. I've been thinking and making some decisions about what I will be doing this summer and next fall concerning school and other opportunities. I sometimes get overwhelmed with Hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04645192577507750841noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781679756030564071.post-14817463419192648402012-04-02T06:24:00.000-05:002012-04-02T06:24:04.439-05:00Are you present?A few weeks ago, I read 2 Corinthians. I love reading the Epistles; the men who wrote them knew exactly what Christians from every time need to hear (I guess that is one of the advantages of having the Holy Spirit tell you what to write!). Those men were the pillars of the Church. Christ is the foundation, and they were the pillars built upon Him that provide structure for the rest of the Abigailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00929773624624628429noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781679756030564071.post-25099840182831130862012-03-26T18:43:00.000-05:002012-03-26T18:43:16.139-05:00A Work In Progress
Philippians 1:6: “being
confident in this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will
complete it until the day of Jesus Christ”
“Come
quickly and look at what I found!”
I
Hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04645192577507750841noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781679756030564071.post-81378265031417258232012-03-19T13:00:00.000-05:002012-03-19T13:00:48.811-05:00The beauty of holinessAnd the answer is....Psalm 96:9!
Oh, worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness!
Tremble before Him, all the earth.
(If you want to know how to solve it, scroll to the bottom of this post)
One of God’s most defining attributes is that He is holy. "Holy" according to Webster’s 1828 dictionary means "Hallowed; consecrated or set apart for consecrated use." God is set apart from creation.Abigailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00929773624624628429noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781679756030564071.post-84065189826166559942012-03-12T22:55:00.001-05:002012-03-13T12:37:53.450-05:00A mystery...This post is a little different from the usual Bible studies posted on here. But the concept behind it–something hidden–is repeated throughout the Bible. The Bible is full of mysteries–some revealed, some yet to be made known. There is the mystery of the kingdom of God (Mark 4:11), the mystery of the wisdom of God (1 Corinthians 2:7), the mystery of the resurrection (1 Corinthians 15:51), and Abigailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00929773624624628429noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781679756030564071.post-29692442376539750612012-03-05T19:57:00.000-06:002012-03-05T19:57:42.873-06:00The key to happiness is.........right here!My family learned a lesson in thankfulness yesterday. There are some things we never think twice about and have very little appreciation for them...well, until they’re missing.
Since my older sister is home for spring break, we decided to hop in the car and drive to a nearby park to take a walk by the river. It was a beautiful spring day–60 degrees, sunny, breezy–you couldn’t ask for Abigailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00929773624624628429noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781679756030564071.post-75788234838906870582012-02-27T21:21:00.000-06:002012-02-27T21:21:55.185-06:00His name is holyA few hours ago, I was sitting in a room with a group of other highschoolers. For the most part, the conversation was light-hearted and friendly. But at the same time, it wasn’t. The conversation was peppered with expressions that took the Lord’s name in vain. Whenever this happens, I start to get really upset–God’s name is holy; we shouldn’t use it flippantly! On the other hand, how are my Abigailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00929773624624628429noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781679756030564071.post-43471142577191532012-02-20T22:40:00.000-06:002012-02-20T22:40:40.143-06:00You can't collect $200 without first passing Go "You shall have no other gods before Me.
"You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations Abigailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00929773624624628429noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781679756030564071.post-75400432256876700452012-02-13T21:40:00.000-06:002012-02-13T21:40:45.779-06:00God's in His heaven, All's right with the worldOne of the greatest gifts God has given believers is peace. "Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid" (John 14:27). While the rest of the world worries about the future, we’re told, "Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things" (Matthew 6:34). While the world Abigailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00929773624624628429noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781679756030564071.post-80839850986127846922012-02-06T22:00:00.000-06:002012-02-06T22:00:00.973-06:00Why I'm not memorizing the BibleYes, you read that correctly. I’m not being sarcastic–it is possible for Bible memory to be a stumbling block for Christians.
Bible Bee opened my eyes and taught me something about myself: I was capable of memorizing huge portions of Scripture. Before 2009, I struggled getting through my one verse a week for school. After the 2009 National Bible Bee, I began memorizing verses, chapters, Abigailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00929773624624628429noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781679756030564071.post-66619492364891258272012-01-30T10:54:00.000-06:002012-01-30T10:54:34.198-06:00God, all nature sings Thy glory!We sang this hymn in church yesterday--I hope it will help you worship the Creator as it did for us!
“God, all nature sings Thy glory, and Thy works proclaim Thy might; Ordered vastness in the heavens, ordered course of day and night; Beauty in the changing seasons, beauty in the storming sea; All the changing moods of nature praise the changeless Trinity.
“Clearer still we see Thy hand inAbigailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00929773624624628429noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781679756030564071.post-49308417393340335952012-01-23T16:57:00.000-06:002012-01-23T16:57:58.003-06:00Whether the weatherIn my sunny home state, we are enjoying almost record-setting temperatures for January. It’s 76 degrees outside, and the sun is throwing long shadows off the Spanish moss on the oak trees. We just got home after visiting family on the other side of the country, and we’re still recovering from the dazzling brightness of sun on snow (and, for me, a cold). Both are so pretty–graceful shadows Abigailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00929773624624628429noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781679756030564071.post-36061608516826088142012-01-16T17:34:00.000-06:002012-01-16T17:34:03.325-06:00Happiness is...People are always looking for happiness--where did they lose it?
Augustine said this about happiness in his book Confessions:
O Lord, far be it from the heart of your servant who confesses to you, far be it from me to think that whatever joy I feel makes me truly happy. For there is a joy that is not given to those who do not love you, but only to those who love you for your own sake. You Abigailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00929773624624628429noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781679756030564071.post-12398602606705251462012-01-09T10:38:00.000-06:002012-01-09T10:38:46.889-06:00Are you broke?Recently, my sister was reading the forum board at a Christian college. Someone posted the question, "Why don’t we talk about sin in chapel?" Someone else posted back, "We do, but now we call ‘sin’ ‘brokenness.’ The word was changed back in 1979–you can check the chapel records."
Quick background information: This college always talks about the effects of sin (AIDS, poverty, racism, etc.) Abigailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00929773624624628429noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781679756030564071.post-46379082755546754142012-01-02T13:27:00.000-06:002012-01-02T13:27:41.936-06:00A new yearHappy New Year! Looking back, it’s hard to believe a whole year has passed since we last said that. It seems like 2011 just started yesterday. Thinking back to everything that’s happened this last year, it almost feels like several years have elapsed instead of just one.
Towards the end of 2011, my family knew that 2012 was going to be a challenging year full of changes and decisions and Abigailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00929773624624628429noreply@blogger.com0