I Have a New Journaling Bible — How Should I Mark It Up?

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John Piper, Unknown, 163859, Pastor, Ask, Theology, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

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🗓️ 30 December 2019

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Journaling Bibles can be a great way to go deeper in God’s word, but many feel paralyzed, not knowing what to write (or not).

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0:00.0	We bid farewell to the 20 teens with a question from Kevin still a teen, an 18-year-old listener
0:09.3	who has a brand new Bible and a great question for you.
0:13.0	Hello Pastor John, my parents just bought me a new ESV journaling Bible interleaved edition
0:17.7	for Christmas.
0:18.7	It has a full blank page between each Bible page, which sounds a lot like Jonathan Edwards
0:23.6	Blank Bible.
0:24.6	I'm truly delighted to have it and to begin using it and I'm hoping it helps me reflect
0:29.2	more on God's word and to be more consistent about spending time with him.
0:32.8	The hang up is this, I've never written in my Bible before, so having blank pages for
0:38.1	notes is brand new territory for me.
0:41.0	What should I write down should it be a place to document my current discoveries, would
0:45.5	it be useful to look back on how God was working in my life a spiritual diary of sorts?
0:50.6	Should I date my entries, stuff like that?
0:52.5	How would you go about doing this Pastor John?
0:54.9	Kevin, you are about to embark on something astonishing.
1:00.8	It could absolutely change your life in very profound ways.
1:06.2	The word of God is sharper than any two-edged sword.
1:10.8	It pierces to the division of soul and spirit bone and marrow.
1:15.2	It searches out your heart, the hidden things you don't even know are there.
1:20.2	It's full of liberating, sanctifying power, nothing else will be as transforming in your
1:28.4	life as the word of God pursued in regular discipline, focus, prayerful ways through
1:34.5	this process of writing down what you see in God's words.
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