Scripture Memory for All of Life on this edition of Truth and Love.

I'm Dale Johnson, and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified

Biblical Counselors, where we seek to provide biblical solutions to the problems that people

face.

Today on the podcast, I'm delighted to have with me, Brian Gaines.

He's the pastor of counseling and discipleship at Grace Community Church in Glenrose, Texas,

and he's a director there of Grace biblical counseling.

Brian and his wife, Laura, have been members of ACBC for nearly 20 years and just recently celebrated their 25th

wedding anniversary. The Lord's really blessed them with four wonderful children and the oldest

of which just entered into the supervision phase of ACBC. Certification is past summer,

Brian raising them up, right, brother. And he's a regular speaker and contributor to the

cbcd.org. That's the Center for Biblical

counseling and discipleship here in North Texas. And he's taught several breakout sessions at our

annual conferences in recent years. And Brian and I have a special relationship. He was the associate

pastor at Grace community there in Glenrose when Summer and I were members at that church

for about four years. And so, brother, love you and appreciate you and looking forward to our time

together today. And likewise. As we talk about this issue of scripture memory, sometimes that

sounds rigid and old hat for people and crusty idea. But really the idea that the Lord is giving us to

dwell richly on the word. I want you to talk about how we emphasize the authority and sufficiency

by the way in which we capture the word of God in our hearts. So talk about this connection

and how we internalize the word

and how that impacts our daily lives. Yeah, I think maybe the big picture is as we consider our

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