Saturday, June 2, 2007

How do you read a book?

When I was a pastoral apprentice under Pastor David Sunday, he taught me a most effective strategy of reading a book. While reading write down Five Questions about the material you are reading. Write down five challenges pertaining to what you have read. Write down five encouragements you gained from the reading.
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Anonymous said...

That's a good idea. I'm all about reading tips...any strategy that helps you read more actively is worth trying. I like to mark in books (if I own them), underlining and highlighting and writing my reactions and thoughts (if I don't own the book, post-it notes work). Also, pre-reading really does help: look ahead at the subtitles/topic sentences of the section before you read it (and look through the book before you read it), so you know what's coming--so your mind can be more engaged.

June 3, 2007 at 7:39 PM

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Sunday School Highlights

This past Sunday we continued our journey through the book of Deuteronomy. We began to explore the first section of the book's summary statement 'God chooses His people, His people must choose Him.' Therefore, we studied the first aspect of how God chose the Israelites as His special people. It wasn't because of their righteousness but out of His love for them. Remember what kind of people they were? They were insignificant to the world, they were slaves turned vagabonds wondering in the desert. They were small and stiff-necked. All more the reason for God to turn from them, but no. He embraced them with love and showered them with grace. Just think of our own salvation. Each one of us has a past, has a history, has string of issues that follow us each day. That past tells us that we are like the Israelites, undeserving of the Lord's grace and love. Just take some time and meditate upon these verses, Eph. 1:3-4. What comes to your mind?