Put some bible in your brain!

There are certain bits of bible which need to be embedded in a Christian’s brain. Need to be. No, this isn’t a requirement before God can save you. But it’s extremely useful to be able to quote various verses and passages which remind us of God’s love and grace and goodness, of Jesus’s teachings and commands, of the thinking behind God’s acts and our beliefs, and of promises, encouragements, and expectations. We need to put some verses into our memories. So here’s how we get started. Lots of Christians insist there are particular verses every one of us ought have memorized, like the Lord’s Prayer , or “the Lord’s my shepherd,” John 3.16 , or Romans 6.23 , or Romans 10.9 . (People tend to refer to verses by their addresses. That’s sorta annoying for those of us who mix addresses up. I’m one of them, by the way.) No, I’m not going to go through the entire list of Christians’ favorite memory verses right now. I’ll bring one or another up from time to time. If you’ve been