Meditating On Scripture

I taught from Joshua 1:8 this past Sunday night and received quite a few emails and myspace messages asking me how to pick a verse each day or a verse each week to meditate on. Before I answer this question, I have to say how encouraged I am at the number of people who requested help in this area!

If you missed the message on Sunday night (March 5), I'd highly recommend going to the Frontline site and listening to it on streaming audio. You can either go to the top of my myspace page and click on "FRONTLINE" or you can click here: http://www.frontline.to/. Click on "Joshua Project 4" under "Recent Series" on the main screen. (If you are reading this after March 2006, just go to the media archives from the main page.)

Frontline doesn't currently have a "verse of the day" that you can subscribe to but I've discovered several sites that can help you to do so. You can subscribe to have a verse each day emailed to you. I'm only showing two of the sites I found. If you want to look at other sites you can google "scripture verse of the day." The sites I found are below:
www.christnotes.org
http://www.votd.org/ (votd stands for "verse of the day")

I don't necessarily advocate any additional information on these sites. I can only recommend the email subscription as a source for Bible verses. Subscribing to one of these sites or a site you find during your own search will help connect you to the Bible every day.

I's also suggest that you read the verse sent each day and save the one that connects with you the most each week. Then meditate on the chosen verse as I described biblical meditation on Sunday and continue your reflection on the chosen verse until another verse connects with you. This process will serve you well in engaging you with the text at a very personal and impacting level.

If you don't already, I hope you decide to pursue this or some form of regular reflection on biblical text. Remember, "All Scripture is God-breathed and useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work." (2 Timothy 3:16)

Carpe Deum! (seize God!)
Todd Phillips