1. Deep cleaned the kitchen (haven't gotten to the oven yet, though), the girls' room, and the living room.
2. Helped Rachel write a unit study using The Door in the Wall. We're pretty excited about using this with Thomas! Pulled out a couple of art studies to go with it and made a file to keep all of the materials together.
3. Pulled out all the books for Carrie's geo unit study, Thomas' Door in the Wall unit, Anna's Beautiful Feet American history, and Abby's TruthQuest History. Re-arranged the bookshelves to fit all these together on two shelves.
4. Finally got around to making a couple of appointments for the kids. I hate making phone calls, so this usually stays on my daytimer to-do list for several weeks.
5. Started back my Bible study. I have to admit I've been off track for several months, what with the holidays, my Lenten Bible readings, and another book I've been reading. But the study that feeds my soul the most is one my husband and I developed a long time ago.
I first choose one verse. That's right ONE verse. I have a worksheet that works on the same premise as Five in a Row. On day one, I write the verse and figure out the context (CIE= Context Is Everything). For day two I find the parallel passages. My Hebrew-Greek Key Word Study Bible has the parallel passages marked, so that's pretty easy. The third day has a place to write down all the key words and meanings, which I get from either my Strong's Concordance or my Old/New Testament lexicon. The work for the fourth day is a background analysis using a Bible encyclopedia. Then I usually combine the 5th and 6th day and write an interpretation and application, using all my research. Then I think about how I would communicate this information to someone else.
6. Started reading B is for Betsy by Carolyn Haywood to Abby, which is great fun!
4 comments:
Joy, thanks so much for sharing the Bible study you developed. It looks wonderful. I have been off track a bit lately too. I was reading through one Psalm a day writing out who God is and how I should respond (I learned it from The 29/59 Plan book). I've been wondering how I would approach quiet time when I finished all the Psalms. LOL
Would you be willing to share the worksheet? Do you have a Bible Encyclopedia that you would recommend? How do you choose the verse to study?
Thanks again.
Julie,
I'll ask David about the worksheet - it will be on his computer at the office. I might be a couple of days before I get back to you - I'm very busy today and tomorrow.
I'll look at my ency. and see the title.
I don't have a system for figuring out the verse. Whatever I'm interested in or just wherever I happen to be reading or sometimes I work on a passage, a verse at a time. The key is only one verse per week, even though you might think that's not enough. If you pick a "meaty" verse (as opposed to: Jesus wept - well, maybe that's meaty, too, come to think of it), it's enough for the week.
Thanks, no hurry as I have plenty of Psalms left. :)
My encyclopedia is The New Manners and Customs of Bible Times. http://www.christianbook.com/Christian/Books/product?item_no=5965X&item_code=WW&netp_id=385850&event=ESRCN&view=covers (sorry, I don't know how to make a link in the com box.
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