“Quiet Time” Is a Misnomer

The only quiet thing about my quiet time is that I can’t hear anyone or anything else…besides me.

I talk out loud, read out loud, pray out loud…shout, cry, sing, pound the desk, and ruffle pages as if in a Sunday School sword drill.

I don’t see a reason to hold back. God’s Word is alive, and we should engage it as such. We should engage God as a relationship person, not a lifeless book. Not irreverently, but not without emotion either.

Maybe I should start calling it my “morning devotions” since “quiet time” sounds like a misnomer.

What do you call your morning time in God’s Word?

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8 Bible Reading and Memory Plans [Weekend Resource]

Desire Spiritual Growth has two new pages: Bible Reading Plans and Bible Memory Plans under the Resources tab.

Both pages offer a buffet of Bible reading and memory plans, plus some “how-to” heavy artillery. Remember, our hope is not in the methods. But they are tools nonetheless. There’s value in having a plan to follow when reading the Bible. Maybe you want to methodically follow a beaten path by reading the Bible in a year. Or you want to plunge into a 90 day reading plan. Or maybe you’re like me and just want a plan so you can have something to meander back to once you’ve chased the rabbit trails.

Here’s a list for readers of all stripes.

Bible Reading Plans

1. Tabletalk’s Bible in a Year Plan
2. Entire Bible in 90 Days
3. Book-at-a-Time Bible Reading Plan
4. 5×5×5 Bible Reading Plan
5. Discipleship Journal Bible Reading Plan
6. Professor Grant Horner’s Bible Reading System
7. 6 Ways to Access the ESV Bible Reading Plans

How to Have a Quiet Time

1. Guide to the Quiet Time
2. 7 Minutes with God
3. How to Use Bible Study Methods [Confession From a Recovering Methods Addict]

Here’s everything you wanted to know about Bible memory, and then some.

Bible Memory Plan and Resources

1. Create Your Own Memory Cards
2. Fighter Verse Cards

How and Why to Memorize

1. An Approach to Extended Bible Memory
2. 18 Tricks To Memorize More Scripture
3. How John Piper Memorizes Scripture
4. Why Memorize Scripture?

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