If you're trying to build a habit of reading the Bible, Nancy DeMas Walgamoos says, you need more than willpower.

We can't do it on our own.

We can't keep his law on our own.

We can't know his word on our own.

We need his help.

We need his grace.

We need his spirit to instruct us in what God's word means and to enable us to obey. This is the Reviver Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamut, author of Holiness, The Heart God Purifies.

For June 25th, 2025, I'm Danegresh.

Here's Nancy continuing in a series called Revide Me According to Your Word. She's speaking to a studio audience.

Some of you perhaps are familiar with the research that George Barna does on religion in America.

And one of the things he's been talking about for a number of years, which echoes a great

concern on my heart, is this whole issue of biblical illiteracy.

People who call themselves Christians, consider themselves Christ followers, but who don't

know God's word.

And I don't know that there's been any time within my lifetime that biblical literacy has

been at such a low as it is today. And in a report not too long ago that Barna gave, he talked about

how biblical literacy, this is a result of research he did, biblical literacy is neither a current reality nor a goal in the United States.

He said Bible reading has become the religious equivalent of soundbite journalism.

When people read from the Bible, they typically open it, read a brief passage without much regard for the context,

and consider the primary thought or feeling that the passage provided. If they're comfortable with it, they accept it.

Otherwise, they deem it interesting but irrelevant to their life and move on. There is shockingly

little growth evidence in people's understanding of the fundamental themes

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