THE ART OF BIBLICAL MEMORY CLASS

Greetings and Salutations to all of you Word Hungry Believers. This first picture is on my first trip to Kenya...as I was honored to be able teach at a Youth With A Mission Discipleship Training School (DTS). The people (an eclectic gathering of believers) were hungry for the Word. NOTE: You should of seen the size of those Hippo Back Ribs.

Around 16 years ago...I had determined that I would NEVER teach the Word of God again. I was tired, burned out, disappointed, weary in well doing...and was determined to hide out at Smyrna Assembly on the back pew...incognito. God had other plans.

After licking my wounds for a season...the desire to teach the Word began to burn deep within me. I was graciously allowed to step back up to chalkboard (currently a dry erase board)...and teach THE TOPICAL MEMORY SYSTEM (Ruminator Style). The TMS is from the NAVIGATORS...and is a tool of Scripture memorization.

It is (1) TOPICAL because it is divided in to topics and sub-topics. (2)It is MEMORY because it helps you to store information with the ability to retrieve it in the absence of the original stimulus. (3) It is SYSTEM because it is an ordered, systematic, approach to the collection of the information to be memorized.

Our brain is a highly complex computer...that boggles my MIND. I can remember details of my early childhood...but at times cannot remember what I ate for lunch. Over the years...I have input multiple MEGABYTES of information into my computer (good, bad and ugly). The same storage chamber of information can be used to store in images of pornography...or Scriptures. It is how we utilize this amazing created mass of gyrus, convolutions, and grey matter. We are called to as believers...to RENEW OUR MINDS. We are not to be CONFORMED to the world...but be TRANSFORMED...metamorphised (Rom. 12:1,2) In Ephesians we are called on to be "renewed in the spirit of our mind."

SHAMELESS SELF PROMOTION TIME: Starting on Wednesday night, October 3rd, 2007...I will be teaching a class called THE ART OF BIBLICAL MEMORY (Scripture Memorization...Ruminator Style). It will be a revamp of the class that I taught 16 years ago. Here are some of the particulars:

WHO: You...whosoever...new believer...seasoned saint.
WHAT: The Art of Biblical Memory. A class to give you the tools to memorize and recall scriptures and the ability to study the surrounding context...and then begin to apply what you learn in practical application in this nitty gritty world.
WHEN: Wednesday nights...Starting October 3rd 2007...at 7:00 P.M...
extending through October, November, December
WHERE: Smyrna Assembly (S.A.) in Ruminator Central (aka Fellowship Hall)
WHY: Why not? An opportunity to renew your mind, change your stinkin'
thinkin'...begin to pray the Word versus you will....get to know some people
you don't know...Why not?
HOW: Determine to do it...and then do it. Turn off the T.V...get up off of the
couch...get in your car...drive to church...and DO IT.

"The grass withers...the flower fades...but the WORD OF OUR GOD...shall STAND FOREVER." (Isaiah 40:8)

"If you abide in ME...and My WORDS abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it shall be done for you." (John 15:7)

"This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it; for then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have success." (Joshua 1:8)

"For the WORD OF GOD is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart." (Hebrews 4:12)


"For you have been born again, not of SEED which is perishable but imperishable, that is, through the LIVING and ABIDING WORD OF GOD, for all flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers...and the flower falls of...but THE WORD OF THE LORD ABIDES FOREVER...and this is the WORD which was preached to you." (I Peter 1:24,25)

"How can a young man keep his way pure? By keeping it according to THY WORD. THY WORD have I hid in my heart...that I might not sin against Thee." (Psalm 119: 9,11)

"All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work."

If you are in the Nashville/Smyrna/Murfreesboro area...I look forward to seeing you in class.

Love and Wordy Kisses
Rodney "Chewing On The WORD of GOD...Like A Cow Chews On The Cud" Boyd
Keep Mooooooooooooving in the Spirit