This past week’s Tweets…

by Jim on 18 May 2012

  • When Church Planters Want to Drink Sweet Tea from a Garbage Can (missionaries do strange things) http://t.co/SzyxG8SX #
  • Good read just 99¢ on the Kindle – "Feed My Sheep: A Passionate Plea for Preaching" –Get it while it's on sale!– http://t.co/VZxk47BF #
  • A mitad de nuestro tiempo en Canadá; ¡disfrutando tiempo con la familia! Halfway done our time in Canada; enjoying time with family! #
  • What are the Top 10 Most Read Books in the World (past 50yrs)? Visit the link to find out… http://t.co/XxuBk567 #
  • Long-awaited post from our coworker Tina – Part Two: Quirkiness of living in Mexico! http://t.co/vSCGmCIB #
  • Some things are just cheaper in Canada. Just sayin'. #
  • The Gospel is NOT – "A neat club to belong to" #
  • Jim's Journal – "A good deed" — http://t.co/mAdciDAU #
  • Crazy day in Canada, but we survived. Good to see Shari's brother and his family. Sure ready for some rest now! #
  • From our coworker Tina: quirkiness of living in Mexico http://t.co/xgSHfX6n #

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30 Verses in Spanish – Review!

by Jim on 14 May 2012

So we’ve come to the end of our 30 Spanish verses.  We didn’t do it in 30 days – there was a break in the middle.  But that’s all right.

Here’s an introduction to the project – A New "30 days" Project! (Want to join me?), explaining why I did it the way I did.

Every verse is listed in order below.  There’s an added feature – if you hover over the title, you should see an excerpt from the post.  And if you are on the blog, you’ll be able to hover over the verse and see it too.

I got most of them memorized, but I’m not satisfied yet, so I’m going to keep working on them until I really have them down.

However, I’ve found it very useful already.  It helped with my Spanish.  It taught me a lot about these verses.  And yes, I’ve already used my knowledge of the verses in real life, and I’ve been able to quote parts of them when the situation called for it. :)

As I said when I started, I found that 30 verses wasn’t very many.  There are so many very familiar verses that were left out.  Although I chose carefully, I could just as easily have chosen a whole different set.

If you would like to memorize these verses in Spanish, here are the pdf sheets to make cue cards with RV60 on one side and NBLH on the other:  Set 1, set 2, and set 3.

  1. How could Jesus be Begotten?! (John 3:16)
  2. The First and the Great (Deuteronomy 6:5)
  3. Ancient and Compact! (1Corinthians 15:3)
  4. Time in the Tomb (1Corinthians 15:4)
  5. Is Cephas really Peter? (1Corinthians 15:5)
  6. Rejected by His Own (John 1:11)
  7. A counter-cultural goal (John 1:12)
  8. John’s Surprising Theme (John 1:13)
  9. Everyone’s Problem (God’s Solution) (Romans 3:23)
  10. The Bible’s Least Known Most Important Passage (Romans 4:4)
  11. I’ve Got It – But It’s Not Mine! (Romans 4:5)
  12. Better just to admit it… (1John 1:9)
  13. What is "this"? (Ephesians 2:8)
  14. Boast, no. Praise, yes. (Ephesians 2:9)
  15. The Focus of History (Luke 24:46)
  16. This is the Gospel (Luke 24:47)
  17. Anywhere (Matthew 28:18)
  18. It’s hard to GO (Matthew 28:19)
  19. A Commanding Presence (Matthew 28:20)
  20. The Nature of the Scriptures (2Timothy 3:16)
  21. Every Good Work (2Timothy 3:17)
  22. We’ve been deceived (Jeremiah 17:9)
  23. How to Worship 101 (Romans 12:1)
  24. Want to Know the Will of God? (Romans 12:2)
  25. Incomplete = More Complete? (2Corinthians 12:9)
  26. Are You Pulling and Pushing? (Hebrews 10:24)
  27. So why do we meet together? Hebrews 10:25
  28. God has struck us down? (Hosea 6:1)
  29. Who can stand before Him? (Hosea 6:2)
  30. The Grand Finale (Hosea 6:3)

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Build the Church * Change the Nation * Reach the World

11 May 2012 Mexico

This is an old post card from our mission talking about the need in Mexico.  It’s old, but it still applies (at least until CAM changes its name!) – so here it is! Here are some more opportunities in Mexico. Share


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This past week’s Tweets…

11 May 2012 Twitter

Through security and ready to fly. Things going well so far. # Sad, especially in light of further evidence that girls are being "weeded out"…‘Create the family you want: Boy or Girl’… # ¡Feliz Día de las Madres! ¡Gracias a todas las mamás maravillosas! Happy Mother's Day! Thanks to all the amazing Moms! # Still [...]


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