A Mind Transformed by the Word

And do not be conformed to this world,
but be transformed by the renewing of your mind,
so that you may prove what the will of God is,
that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

Knowing the Scriptures and committing oneself to the Word of God is foundational to our knowledge and growth in Jesus Christ.  If we are to conform ourselves more to the Heavenly Man, Jesus, and die to this world, we must be fed by His Word.  Peter wrote:

“like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word,

so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation,” 1 Peter 2:2

We are to hunger for it as naturally as a baby craves its milk, and we are to be nourished by it, our spiritual food, even as we are nourished by our physical.  In the same way we become malnourished if we stop eating our physical food, so we do with our spiritual food.

This website offers a Bible memory plan on the key doctrines in the Scriptures.  There are ten sections: I)The Bible II)God III)Jesus Christ IV)The Holy Spirit V)Angels VI)Man and Sin VII)Salvation VIII)The Church IX)End Times X)The Gospel. The categories are generally recognized as providing an organized structure for the main areas of Scriptural revelation.

Here is a website that offers a really neat computer based tool for a Bible memory system.  You have to see it to believe it.  It is downloadable.  You can get a 30-day free trial.  Then it costs $20.  If you want to use your computer this would be well worth it.

Here is a website that will give step by step instructions on how to study inductively.  It is not as thorough as something like a Precept model, but it is a great place to start.

Make it Clear Now

This website offers 3 different techniques for Bible memorization for various learning styles.

Bible Study Software:

They do take donations.  Software can be downloaded.  They have maps, devotional books, commentaries, numerous various Bible translations, the Greek New Testament, Hebrew Old Testament, Septuagint, Bible Dictionaries and Bible Encyclopedias, maps and other resources.  All of this is free.  There are also materials for purchase such as the NIV and NASB Bibles and commentary sets as well as more current lexicons, commentaries and Word study materials.

MacSword – Free downloadable bible software specifially designed for the Mac user. (Mac OS X)

Top Ten Free Bible Study Software

If you want software that can be purchased, consider:

If you just want to use online resourses you can go to:

Scripture Meditation:

Many Christians today are uncomfortable with any sort of meditation because of its eastern mystic sound.  But the fact is that the Scriptures themselves command us to meditate on His Word.  It is also perhaps one of the most beneficial spiritual disciplines one can practice.  Also, Christian meditation is nothing like eastern mystic meditation.  Eastern meditation teaches that to meditate one must empty his/her mind of everything.  Christian meditation is exactly the opposite; we fill our minds with God and His Word.  The eastern practitioners are therefore subject to anything while the Christians are subject to only One.  Here are some websites that might help.

This website will help explain both what Christian meditation is and one method to help you learn how to do it.

A sermon on meditation in the Scriptures by Charles Spurgeon, perhaps one of the greatest Evangelical evangelists and preachers ever.  All of his books are still in print after 140 years.

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Revised 2009-11-11