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A month in Philemon
For 2016, I’m setting myself a slightly different Bible study challenge – this is my personal devotions I’m talking about. I’ve selected 12 short Bible books and I’m going to study one a month. My aim with each one is to memorise it (at least for the month, we’ll see how recall goes!), read it through every day, write it out several times and study it slowly. These are not sermons, not yet anyway. This is just personal study. For 2015 I did a few things, including a Bible in the year and some longer books. For this year, I want to get deep into shorter texts. It’s a different discipline, you know. I’m discovering that, even a week or so in. Reading and re-reading countless times really makes a difference. I’m finding questions I want answers to that I would never have thought to ask. It’s not a long time each day – just 20 minutes or so. But it’s fruitful and stimulating. I encourage you to give it a try.
And this month I am mostly studying… Philemon.