10 Minutes

I want to issue a challenge. One that I am sure to fail at more times than I will ever care to admit. But that is why it is called a challenge.

First I have a few questions...


How much time do you actually spend on Facebook everyday?

How much time did you spend on Pinterest today?

Not to forget, Buzzfeed, Twitter, Instagram and my personal favorite: Netflix.

Think about it for a moment. Think about all the time we spend wasting time.


I know we have busy lives. I have one. We have days where we go, go, go and we feel that we never have a minute to spare.

The days when that line at Starbucks is just way too long because we have so much to do! (First world problems much?)

We all have busy lives.


Yet somehow we usually make time for social media. I know you do it. At least I do. :)

With all the busy-ness and noise, we let God take the back seat. Yes, we do. You know we do.


So I am issuing a challenge.

Spend 10 minutes reading the Bible each day. Just ten minutes. Try to make it a daily habit.

That's it. It's simple.

We all have ten minutes. Let's spend those ten minutes in the Bible.


I said simple. I didn't say easy. Making any kind of good habit is usually hard, but it's totally worth it.
Here's a little bit of advice to help you get started. In most cases, it helps when setting goals to have a specific time to do something. For me, that is going to be the morning. I always have coffee in the morning, so now I am going to try to wake up a little bit earlier to have coffee with Jesus, in His Book.

And for the days when I wake up late, I can always spend ten minutes reading the Bible before I fall asleep.


I hope you choose to take this challenge. I promise the Lord will blow you away with what He has to say to you when you open His Book and listen. It's well worth the time. What better way to spend ten minutes?

Be not Afraid.
~Emily

Does It Matter?

A few weeks ago, in anticipation of the upcoming school year, I was doing research about the best ways to study and learn.

What I found overwhelmingly (using a search engine and Netflix) is that we remember what matters to us personally.

And it made so much sense.


There are things I remember so well, defining moments in my life that I will never forget. I remember exact words that were once said that changed my life.

I remember them because they matter to me, personally.


So a few months into this project, I wanted to go back to the purpose.

Why the Bible Freaks?


The answer is very simple. Because we want the Bible to matter to us personally. The Bible is not just words to read and then forget about. It is not just words on a page.

But if  we're not paying attention, we can let it be. We can read the Bible and totally let it pass us by. We can read the Bible everyday and never really "get" it.

The Bible has a message for you and me and it needs to matter to each one of us personally.


My greatest fear with this project is that you will just read our reflections and posts, without letting it affect you and without engaging the Bible in a real way.

My greatest prayer for this project is just the opposite: that it will help you to see how the Bible applies to you personally.

This project calls me to search, to pray, to deepen my faith, and to dive into Scripture. It invites me to take a look and see what God is doing in my life and to see what messages He has for me. That's what I want it to do for you.


I find myself in the Bible more often than I would like to admit. I find myself in the Prodigal Son, and I find myself in the Woman at the Well. I see myself in them and I see my mess, but more importantly I see God's love. I see a love so great it gave everything for me...and then He wrote it down.

I don't want the Bible to be just words on a page, not for me or for you. I want it to become alive in your life. I want your life and mine to be a reflection of the living Word.

Because these words were not just meant to be written or read; they were meant to be lived!


So live it. Start right now. Take some time to think about if the Bible does matter to you personally. If so, why? If not, why not? And do you want it to? Because it can.

The Bible is God speaking to us. The God of the universe is talking to us! He's been waiting for all eternity for you to take the time to listen, and if you're anything like me, you spend more time on Facebook than reading the Bible.

Take the time now. Pick up your Bible and find yourself in the greatest love story ever told. Listen to the God of the universe tell you just how much He cares, and let it matter.

Let it matter to you. Personally.



Be not Afraid.
~Emily

The Skit Guys

Some weeks are utterly crazy during the summer. Those weeks you do not have a chance to breathe... or write a proper post for your blog! Well, this is one of those weeks. But other weeks when we have all the free time in the world we get to internet browse!

Today I have for you some wonderful picks of Biblical browsing to aid your faith.

Today we are talking about Youtube and the Bible, two of Sarah's favorite things.

A few years ago, I found these guys called The Skit Guys on Youtube. They talk about God and the Bible, and they seem to be pretty awesome! Although I cannot vouch for all of their stuff, what I have seen is really good.

I hope you enjoy and I hope this is one of those weeks for you when you have tons of time to peruse the internet. :) I'll get there one of these weeks.

You are so loved.
~Emily

If the YouTube videos in this post don't work for you, just go on over to YouTube and explore The Skit Guys. :)

Word of God!

It might have seemed like a typical slumber party. It was about 2 a.m. Some of us were trying to sleep.  Others of us were giggling like only teenage girls can.

Only we weren't talking about typical teenage girl things. I was trying, desperately trying, to explain the Song of Songs.

Except I was failing. Kind of miserably.

Flipping through the Bible, we had happened to come across this little gem of a book and suddenly we found ourselves very confused.

Which is not at all surprising if you have ever actually read the Song of Songs.

Exhibit A:

Your teeth are like a flock of ewes to be shorn, that come up from the washing, all of them big with twins, none of them barren.

Song of Songs 4:2

Wait, what? 

 

Thus the reason I was trapped trying to explain it and not even knowing just how or what to explain.

What I did know was that there had to be more to all of this Bible stuff. I knew there had to be more to it.

Why had I never opened the Bible and really tried to understand it?

That night was a turning point for us. We all realized that there was a lot to the Bible that we did not know and we needed to find out.

We needed to immerse ourselves in the Word. We needed to delve deeper into Scripture.

That was when we decided to do something about it. That was when the Bible Freaks were born.

The Bible Freaks is all about sharing a love of Scripture. I want to share a love of Scripture because I think we are so familiar with it we fail to even notice it. I think we might be desensitized to how amazing the Bible actually is. I know I have been. I have a Bible, I always have, I can read it whenever I want.

But just take a step back and think about it for a second.

Scripture is the WORD OF GOD.

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His WORD! Sometimes we forget that this is kind of a big deal. Scripture is God speaking to us, right here and right now. Not just to the Church in general but to us, as individuals. That means we have to respond as individuals. We have to take advantage of this incredible gift that God has given us.We have to listen to what He wants to tell us.

Imagine if you had the opportunity to have a one on one conversation with Jesus. To have Him tell you what to do and how to live and what He wants for you.

It would be weird. It would be crazy. It would be awesome and you would want everyone else to have that same experience. You would not be able to contain your excitement and your joy and you would just have to share it with everyone!

We believe that is exactly what the Bible is. The Bible is God's love letter to the world, His instruction manual for how to navigate through life, and the story of just how far He was willing to go to save us from ourselves.

It is God's Word, and we cannot wait to discover it with you!

We are still new to studying the Bible. We have a long way to go and we are far from experts. Nothing we say should be taken as absolute truth or infallible interpretation. We are just girls who love God's Word and want to share it with the world. We hope that, in spite of the fact that we don't know all the answers and can't promise to be right all the time, this blog will be a source of inspiration for you as you grow in your relationship with God.

That's why we're doing this. We want to get to know who He is, and we are so excited you want to join us!


Know that you are loved.
~Emily