{"id":5114,"date":"2015-01-02T00:00:46","date_gmt":"2015-01-02T06:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=5114"},"modified":"2015-01-01T12:34:42","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T18:34:42","slug":"dont-just-read-your-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=5114","title":{"rendered":"DON&#8217;T JUST READ YOUR BIBLE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Many have begun new Bible reading programs where the goal is to get through all of it. \u00a0It is a great idea and one I&#8217;ve done in various ways for many years. \u00a0In fact, I sometimes read large sections of Scripture at a very fast rate: one minute or so per chapter. \u00a0I do this to keep the basic flow before me.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>On the other side of the spectrum is slowing way down to consider all that is in a phrase or verse. \u00a0I do this on a regular basis. \u00a0In fact, many of my memorized verses are first meditation verses. \u00a0Ps. 119:83 is a recent example. \u00a0If you look that verse up please know it is not a typo. \u00a0There are some wonderful things to ponder in that verse.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>So make sure that there is time for plenty of Bible mediation in your Bible reading!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many have begun new Bible reading programs where the goal is to get through all of it. \u00a0It is a great idea and one I&#8217;ve done in various ways for many years. \u00a0In fact, I sometimes read large sections of Scripture at a very fast rate: one minute or so per chapter. \u00a0I do this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible","category-bible-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5114"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5117,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5114\/revisions\/5117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}