July 16, 2025 • 46 mins
How do you get the most out of your personal Bible reading and study? From Revive Our Hearts, Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth returns for some biblical encouragement. More than two years ago, Nancy joined us to talk about the power of Bible journaling. Now, she's unveiling a Notetaking Bible that might help transform your personal study—don't miss Chris Fabry Live.
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S1 (00:05):
Welcome to the continuing conversation. We call Chris Fabry Live
because I'm Chris Fabry and we are live, except where
we're not. On the first live broadcast of 2023, two
and a half years ago, we had a conversation with
Revive Our Hearts, Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth about Bible journaling. And
the more we talked about that, the more excited I
got about the process that Nancy was talking about, because
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it does. One of the things that I'm hoping that
this program does for you every day, and that is
it slows you down. So here is a ministry leader,
something the ministry leader, a Bible teacher, a pastor, a professor.
We have a resource for you today that will help you.
But but not only those people, but also everyday ordinary
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believers like you and me who want to connect your
heart with God's heart and have him guide you every day.
Proverbs 16 nine A person's heart plans his way, but
the Lord determines his steps. So today, two and a
half years later, Nancy's back because her discussion that day
is now something you can hold in your hand, something
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you can use to do what I just described, and
you'll hear about it straight ahead. On Chris Fabry live
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Give us a call or go to the website where
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you'll also find out about Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, who is
founder and lead Bible teacher for Revive Our Hearts ministry,
dedicated to calling women to freedom, fullness and fruitfulness in Christ.
You hear her on two daily audio teachings revive our
hearts and seeking him. Her books have sold more than
4 million copies and are reaching the hearts of women
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around the world. Nancy and her husband, Robert live in
Michigan and are featured resource today. Just came out yesterday.
It is the CSB Christian Standard Bible, note taking Bible
CSB note taking Bible Revive our Hearts edition. And I've
got my copy and I call it the Purdy Bible
because it is it's got flowers on it and it's purdy.
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And Nancy, welcome back. How you doing today?
S2 (03:26):
I'm doing great, Chris. Thank you. And for those who
may not be into flowers, we have a couple of
other stunningly beautiful covers as well. So take your pick.
S1 (03:36):
Or handsome, you could call them handsome.
S2 (03:38):
Or handsome right. We got the purdy one and the
handsome one.
S1 (03:41):
Oh, I like the purdy one. Because one of the
things I was thinking about this is this is. I mean,
you could take it to church with you, but this
is more of an intimate Bible that you have in
the corner where you study each morning and you get
your cup of coffee and you just sit down there
with the word and a pen and your own heart and.
But correct me if I'm wrong. Is that the idea?
S2 (04:02):
Totally. It's if you're going to take it to church,
it's a little bit of a weightlifting addition. Um, but
to have it there in your home where you sit
and read your Bible and then to be able to
to record your journey with the Lord as you walk
through Scripture. This is something I discovered, um, back in, oh,
maybe 6 or 7 years ago, uh, with another edition
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of this note taking Bible. And it I'm looking at
the one that I went through for five years from
Genesis to Revelation. It's it's I don't want to say
it's shredded because it's well made, but it's it's well used.
And this became my just certainly among my very most
prized possessions. It's such a record of the Lord's dealings
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with my own heart and of my engaging with his word.
I like to say this sitting down and taking notes.
Journaling as I was reading through the Bible became my
happy place. Yes. Ask Robert. It's just been such a
sweet thing to me. And so I was so thrilled
when our friends at home and Bibles at LifeWay said,
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we'd like to do a Revive our Hearts edition, and
that gave me the opportunity to share some of what
I'd been learning about how to how to journal in
the Bible and how to pray it back to the Lord.
So we're so thrilled now that this is available, and
I just believe it's going to help a lot of people.
It's going to do what it's done for me, which
is just heighten our love for the Word of God,
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getting into it and getting it into us.
S1 (05:36):
And there's somebody listening today who says, Nancy, I would
love to experience what you're talking about, but I read
the Bible. I don't understand it. So I want you
to listen through today. I want you to hear Nancy's
heart and see if this doesn't give you not only hope,
but the idea of, yeah, God wants to meet with me.
He wants to meet me where, right where I am
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and what I'm going through, and use his word to
speak into your life. So put that as a placeholder.
If you go to Chris Fabriclive org, you'll see the
CSB note taking Bible, which it's really I would say
it's the Journal Bible, but it has room on this.
I'll tell you all about it as we go along here.
But but it struck me this morning, those who are
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passing away, handing the baton to us, and I thought
of your ministry and immediately thought of Elisabeth Elliot, because
she was one who passed the baton to you a
number of years ago. Another teacher I miss greatly as
Warren Wiersbe. I miss hearing his voice, hearing his heart.
And then on Monday of this week, Doctor John MacArthur
passed away. And to me, the hallmark of his radio
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programs and the books that he wrote, you know, the Bible,
that he had the study Bible, the hallmark for him
was the laser focus on the scriptures as the inerrant, unchanging,
life giving Word of God. So would you reflect on
that just a little bit here as we start?
S2 (06:59):
Yes, and I have used that John MacArthur Study Bible
for years and years, as have millions of others, and
found such practical wisdom and help because I've been reading
the Bible for over 60 years myself since I could
read many, many times. But I have questions all over
the place and things I'm going hmm, like what is
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meant by that? And why is that in there? And
so to have these who've gone before us and have
been serious students of God's Word provide that kind of
assistance is such a gift to the church. And I
didn't have the privilege of knowing doctor MacArthur well. But
I've been so grateful over the years for how pastoring
one church for over 55 years and how he didn't.
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It wasn't anything novel. It wasn't anything showy or any performance,
or it was just the faithful, steady teaching of the
Word of God. Verse by verse, chapter by chapter, book
by book, and letting the Scripture explain itself. And he
taught a lot of us how to do that. Um,
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so he's been a faithful servant of the Lord. I'm
just so thankful. And I'll tell you what else, Chris. Um,
you've seen, I'm sure have seen interviews that doctor MacArthur
did on secular news outlets or talk shows where he
would be challenged about, you know, whatever the contemporary issues
were and controversial issues. And there are places where it's
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it's just hard sometimes to defend the Christian worldview and faith.
But I remember hearing doctor MacArthur say over and over again, well,
the Bible says that. And he would just take us
to what the Bible says. And I heard, uh, yesterday
a clip on social media from a Jewish social media
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influencer who had interviewed McArthur a couple of times, and
he said how much he respected doctor McArthur because in
their live interviews, doctor McArthur would take him to the
New Testament and would show him how it relates to
the Old Testament. And this is this Jewish man influencer
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saying this about doctor McArthur. He said he tried, he
felt I needed he wanted to convert me to become
a Christian. And he said, I didn't take offence at
that because I knew that he cared about my soul.
So you know the Bible. It's it's the word of God.
What a wonder it is. So doctor McArthur would be
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the first to say Elizabeth Elliot Warren Wiersbe, they would say,
and I hope one day when I'm lying in the grave,
that those who are speaking about me will say the
same thing. It wasn't about him. It wasn't about her.
It was about Jesus and the gospel and the Word
of God. And that's I, you and I, Chris, are
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following in the steps of people like these who've gone
before us, and that's what we want to be as
faithful to the Word of God, because we know it's
not what we think. It's not what we say that
changes lives or that gives life. It's the Word of God.
God speaking through his word. He did back when it
was written thousands of years ago. He's still doing it today.
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And what a joy it is to help people hear
the voice of God in the Word of God.
S1 (10:25):
Yes. And that's what we want to do today. As
a matter of fact, in the, uh, opening the flyleaf
of the Bible where you present, if you give this
as a gift, the verse that's under that is Isaiah 40,
verse eight, the grass withers, the flowers fade, but the
word of our God remains forever. So that's why we
like to talk about it. And all this week we're
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doing some aspect of God's Word in each of the
programs that we're talking about. Um, and we're going to
do that tomorrow with study in Second Corinthians. But today
we have for you. Uh, Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, the CSB
note Taking Bible Revive our Hearts edition. We have a
a link to that at Chris Fabry Live as well.
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There's a True Woman conference coming up in October that
we'll tell you about, and a link to that as well.
Just go to Chris. Moore with Nancy straight ahead on
Moody Radio. From Revive Our Hearts, Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth is
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with us today. She's written a number of books, lies,
Women Believe and the Truth that Sets Them Free. Adorned.
Living out the beauty of the gospel together. Find out
more about her. and the new Bible that is out yesterday.
It just came out yesterday. The CSB note Taking Bible
Revive Our Hearts edition. And you mentioned the the weight
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of this part of the reason why it is so
heavy is, I think, is because this is not onion
skin that it's printed on, it's printed on paper that
you can write on that's not going to bleed through
to the next page. Or at least that's what I,
I don't know what this paper is. Do you know
what it is?
S2 (12:14):
No, that's that's that's beyond my pay grade. But you're
exactly right. It's easy to write in and on. And
also it has these two inch margins next to the
text on the left page and on the right page
that are lined with places for the reader to record, observations,
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to ask questions, to grapple with the text, to write prayers,
to write responses. I have I'm on in a second
version of this actually now myself. And this morning I
was in Psalm 119 and I, I wrote in the
margin here I have very small, tiny handwriting, but I
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can read it and I wrote, I just made a
list of the verbs in Psalm 119 that talk about
how we relate to God's Word, how the psalmist said
so to love God's Word, to study it, to hope
in it, to trust in it, to learn it, to
think about it, to walk in it, to meditate on it,
to delight in it, etc.. So I made a list there, probably,
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I don't know, 20 or 30 verbs here in the
margin that I was able to jot down as I
was reading through the Psalm this morning. And it just
it helps keep my mind from wandering like I'm embarrassed
to say that my mind wanders when I read God's Word. Like,
how can that be true? But it is true. And
so this helps me think about what I'm reading. It
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helps me deal with it. It helps. It puts a
mirror to my own heart of like, do I love
God's Word this way? Do I delight in God's Word
this way? Well, I want to. And then in Psalm 119,
there are plenty of prayers. O Lord, give me life
according to your word. Strengthen me through your word. Help
me understand your word. So this writing space gives me
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a place to interact with and engage with the holy, precious,
amazing Word of God.
S1 (14:12):
I like the Psalm you took us to Psalm 119,
and that's a long one. Let's be honest. That's it.
That's a commitment in the morning. Um, I've actually.
S2 (14:23):
Been listening to it while I'm following along, though, and
it's 17 minutes. And I said, between now and our
True Woman conference, where I'm going to be speaking on
Psalm 119 and don't worry, it won't be a five
hour message. But I've been listening to and following along
in my note taking Bible, Psalm 119 every morning. And
it's it's I mean, I've been familiar with it. I've
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read it many times and it is long. It takes
17 minutes to listen to it, but it's so precious,
so beautiful and so worth it.
S1 (14:54):
Whose voice do you hear? Who reads that?
S2 (14:57):
I don't know who it is.
S1 (14:58):
But.
S2 (14:59):
There's a CSB Bible app. I love I like the voice,
and it's, um. I mean, it's just beautifully read scripture.
It's just another way to take in the scripture, but
I'm I can listen to it and I can follow
along in the Bible here and then be making notes
in the margin as I'm doing it.
S1 (15:14):
Yeah. And that the ability to do that then ask questions.
Do you also underline specific words or highlight specific words
in the text?
S2 (15:24):
Oh yes. In fact, I can remember when I was
a kid, my dad telling me he would look at
my Bible and I'd underline so many things that I
loved and that I was thankful for or I was
engaging with, and he'd say, honey, maybe you should just
underline the parts that you don't want to emphasize because
it was so much. But and that was not a criticism. Um,
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but yes. And I some people like doing it with
color coded pencils and markers and Kay Arthur with preset ministry.
If people have taken her studies, they probably have some
markers like that. I just have my same cheap BIC pen.
Fine point and I, but I mark in different ways
if I want to see commands or prayers or um,
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if I want to emphasize I highlighted in different ways. Um,
but I'm just trying to get into the word and
get the word into me. That's what the goal is.
And when it gets into.
S1 (16:22):
Us, it's.
S2 (16:23):
I'm slowing.
S1 (16:24):
Down. You have to slow down. If you're listening to
something for 17 minutes, you slow down and you allow
that to just kind of wash over your heart and soul.
S2 (16:33):
Yes, yes. And I think sometimes we my dad again, I,
I don't know why he's been in heaven for 45
years or something like that, but he, he and my
mom did such a great job of instilling in us
a love for God's Word. And he used to say
to us, he encouraged us to learn speed reading because
he felt it was a helpful tool to have. But
he would say, there are two things you should not
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speed read love letters and the Bible. So, you know,
sometimes we do speed read the Bible, or sometimes we
hear it read in a service and we just kind
of tune out. We think, I know that I've heard
that I'm familiar with that. But no, having a pen
in hand, maybe listening to an audio version, but reading
the text and making notes forces me to slow down
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and think about what I'm reading. And listen, Chris, that
you know that meditating on God's Word comes with some
amazing promises in Scripture. In Psalm one. In Joshua one,
it's promised that if we will meditate on the Word
of God, that we will be successful in all we do.
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And I just wonder how much I'm going to kind
of go out on a limb here. How much of
our anxiety, our frustration, our fears, our battles with sin,
our mental health issues, our relational challenges? I wonder how
many of those things might look really different if we
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were soaking in the Word of God? I get a
cup of tea every morning and I have these like
fancy little tea bags that are really pretty, and they've
got special herbs and things in them. And I heat
up the.
S1 (18:13):
Tea.
S2 (18:14):
Party tea, and I put the tea bag in the
water and I let it steep. What's happening? What's in
that tea bag is making its way into the water.
And it's supposed to be, like, rejuvenating or whatever, but
it's steeping. It's. It's so that it becomes a part
of the water. And that's what I want the Word
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of God to do. To do in me. I want
it to steep in me. I want to steep in
the Word of God so that it's infiltrating every part,
every particle, every pore of my being. And if it
sounds like I'm passionate about that, it's because I am.
There is nothing like the Word of God to counsel
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our hearts, to encourage us when we're discouraged, to give
us hope, when we are in despair, to give us wisdom,
when we're making tough decisions and we don't know what
to do. To give us something worth living for when
we're bored. I mean, there just isn't a need in
our lives that somehow is not helped and blessed when
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we're steeping in the Word of God and letting it
settle into our hearts. So this journaling Bible, like it's
a it's a resource. It's a tool. Um, there's nothing special.
I mean, it's the only thing inspired about this Bible
is and it's the thing is the text. But anything
that helps me or helps others to get into it
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and get more out of it, I think is such
a blessing and a gift. And that's why we got
with our friends at LifeWay and said, let's make this
a resource that others. And one of the things we
put in this Bible, I don't want to jump ahead
of you here, but there are 150 prayers that are
scattered in the woven into the margins throughout the Bible.
And these are prayers that have come out of my
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own journaling through the Bible myself. They were originally handwritten
in my tiny, little illegible handwriting, and now they're printed
in the margins. And the reason for doing that was, um,
I wanted to model how you can take scripture, meditate
on it, and turn it into a prayer. So I
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my hope is that people will read those prayers and
they'll make them their own prayers, but then that they
will write their own fresh prayers from their own heart
as they meditate on the word. So sometimes those prayers start,
O Lord, and sometimes they start, yes, Lord. And sometimes
I start. Please, Lord. Um, but that was just my
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beginning of responding to what I was reading in the Scripture.
And so that's one of the features that I haven't
seen in another journaling or note taking Bible that I
think will be a blessing and an encouragement to those
who use this Revival Hearts edition.
S1 (21:07):
And that is that's one of the things I love
about this, is because the text is in the middle
of the, you know, the unfolded pages, it's in the middle.
So you have note taking on the left side and
the right side. And so the only thing you're going
to see in the margins that is printed in there
are some prayers like here. Psalm 119 130 says, the
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revelation of your words brings light and gives understanding to
the inexperienced. And Nancy's prayer is, O Lord, shine the
light of your word into my heart, bringing wisdom and understanding.
May all darkness be dispelled. Let there be no pretense,
no covering, no resistance, just the pure, radiant beauty of
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your presence and truth. Amen. So that is in. That
takes up a few of the lines over here, but
the rest of it is just you and God's Word.
There are. And I thought, you know, there's I've got
study Bibles. I have a really good study Bible over
here that I use as my kind of my daily
go to, but it has. And I asked the one
who was the general editor, I said, you know, the
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thing I don't like is when it breaks the text up,
let's say in Proverbs, you know, I'm going through a
proverb and it has the first ten verses here, and
then a note, and then it has the next one.
It's like, I like to see it all together. It's
just something about me. And he said, okay, I understand.
Sorry I couldn't do that for you, Chris. But I
look at this and it's like, other than where there's
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a manuscript variants where you need to have, you know,
in Mark chapter five or in Luke somewhere, it says,
you know, manuscripts use this word. Other than that, I
don't see any other commentary or, you know, cross-references, cross-reference.
You know, there's nothing there except the words and then
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the chapter and verses.
S2 (22:57):
Mhm. Yeah, I love that. And then it just it's
not cluttered. So it gives me the a clearer head
and mind when I'm praying through it, thinking through it.
And sometimes I'll write my own cross-references or because it
will remind me. As I was reading Psalm 119 this morning,
there were verses that reminded me of another psalm, Psalm 19,
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that talked in both of these Psalms how the Word
of God is worth more than great gold and silver.
And it's how. How it's as sweet as honey to
our taste. So that made me think of another psalm.
So I jotted a note there in the margin. And
so it lets you put your own references and thoughts
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and prayers. Now, nothing I write in the margin is inspired.
I just want to make that clear. And I in
many cases have in my original going journaling through the
whole Bible, which was a five year amazing journey. Um,
I many times I would write down, I have no
idea what this is talking about. Lord, help me understand
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what this means. Or I would ask questions who is
this about? What is this for? What is this saying?
So it's grappling with the text, then responding and through
surrender through saying, yes, Lord, through Lord, help me to
obey this. Lord. I agree with what you said or
jotting down sometimes even very personal things if if the
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Scripture is talking about forgiveness, is there somebody I need
to forgive?
S1 (24:31):
And okay, wait a minute, because I know this Bible
is something that you say and you know it's given
from one person to another as a gift. And then
it says, after you finish this, maybe there's somebody you
want to lovingly pass it along to, you know, somebody
in the family or, you know, a kind of a
legacy thing. So if you're totally honest about I want
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to forgive Robert because he said this to me, and
you don't want to you don't want.
S3 (24:55):
To put that on another piece of paper.
S2 (24:57):
Uh, so yes, that's one great possible use. And I've
heard some, especially some grandmothers and mothers with older children saying,
I would like to go through this note taking Bible,
make my own notes, um, that are there personal, but
they're not private. And then maybe some prayers for that
child or that grandchild, or that friend I've been discipling
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or mentoring that I would eventually like to pass it
on to them. So there's actually a presentation page at
the beginning, and this could be years down the road
where you leave this as a legacy gift. In fact,
a mom told me recently that her husband is doing
this for their daughters, so this would be a great
tool to use for that.
S1 (25:35):
Absolutely. The CSB note Taking Bible Revive Our Hearts edition
just came out yesterday. We have it linked at fabriclive.
We also have a link there to True Woman 25th October,
two through four in Indianapolis. More straight ahead. Nancy DeMoss
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Wolgemuth is with us today. You can tell how passionate
she is about God's Word and getting God's Word in
here inside us, meditating on it, letting it do its work.
Because you know what? Nobody can meditate on God's Word
for you. I mean, there are some great tools out there,
some great study Bibles that you can have, a great
books that are written about the Bible. But there is
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no one who can meditate on God's Word for you.
That's something only you can do for you. And I
think this CSB note taking Bible Revive our Hearts edition,
what I call the Nancy Purdy Bible is, is something
that's going to help you do that. Uh, and here's
the other idea that I have, Nancy. And it is
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is there somebody in your life of you write mainly
for women, but it also, you know, instead of the
flower on the on the cover, you have some that
are more, uh, generic, you know, masculine. So there could
be a man or a woman who's lost their spouse
or had a big loss in their life, a big change,
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a big change in seasons of their life. Giving a
Bible like this and saying and inscribing it to them
so that then they can read through the scriptures for
themselves in light of the loss in light of the struggle,
the difficulty, the whatever it is. God, would you meet
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me here where I am this morning? This is what
I'm going through that could change a heart forever.
S2 (27:41):
Yeah, there's no greater encouragement than God gives through his holy,
precious word, because it's his presence that is mediated to
us through His Word. That's where we encounter him. That's
where we meet him. That's where he meets with us.
So seasons of loss, seasons of trials. I'm also I've
been signing some of these Bibles over the last week
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or so since we first got Ahold of them, and
I've sent a few to, um, high school students are
just going into college. Just young adults, teenagers that I
know are interested in spiritual things, and I want to
encourage them to develop a love for God's Word. Not
a so-so casual relationship with it, but a real personal
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relationship with it. And I want them to get in
this habit, which has been such a joyful thing to
me for so many years. So I think there are
a lot of different seasons. Some people, you know, have
more time on their hands in this season than they
do in others. So you say, well, I've got I
was talking this morning, in fact, sent one of these
Bibles to a mom who's got four little children, one
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of whom has special needs and is in the hospital
right now. Well, that mom doesn't have a lot of
time on her hands, so she doesn't have to go
through the whole thing from Genesis to Revelation, as I
did over the course of time. She can open to
wherever she's reading. By that.
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Point.
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Philemon has actually some great encouraging words in it. And
it's a short passage, but in the Psalms or in
the Gospels or wherever, and find encouragement and hope and record, I,
I put the date where I'm reading. That's one of
the things I do in my note taking Bible so
I can go back and see, here's here's where I
was here. Here's the play. If I'm out of town,
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I put the the town I'm in where I'm staying or,
you know, on vacation or whatever. And just it becomes
a bit of a record of God's dealings with me.
You don't have to fill in all the lines. Some people,
you know, drawing or sketching or making maps or, um,
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you know, use be creative about how you use that
space in the margins. I'm I like words, I like
writing words. So mine doesn't have any pretty thing in it.
It's just words. But it's they're they're personal. They're precious
to me. They're, um, I, I started this the first
one I did in on January 1st of 2018, and
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I opened a Genesis one one. I didn't know what
I was going to write. I didn't I didn't know
what to do with all this space. And I kind
of was feeling my way. I'd never done anything like
this before. So here's just a paragraph of what I
wrote on. I wrote the date, chapter one of Genesis.
We stand at the beginning of a new year. God
is here because it says in the beginning, God. He
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has always been. He always will be. Apart from him,
all of life and earth is shapeless, meaningless, futile, empty
and dark. But in him is life and light. His
spirit hovers over this earth. He speaks light into the
darkness of our world. He creates. He orders. He separates.
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He defines. It is good what he declares happens. What
he ordains comes into being. There are no obstacles to
his power. Nothing can withstand his purposes. So that was
the first paragraph I wrote in the first time I
went through a journaling Bible, and it was about years
will look very different and somebody else's will look very different.
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So I was just highlighting words that stood out to
me and putting it together and meditating on it and
kind of trying to capture my thoughts and meditation as
I was reading the text. And that's what I proceeded
to do for the next 1289 chapters to great, great joy.
S1 (31:32):
700,000 words you wrote in that little script that you have.
700,000 words. And you're not saying that everybody will do
it that way.
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You did.
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No. And it doesn't have to be that way. You
might want to outline. You might sometimes you may just
want to. I think there's there's beauty and value sometimes
in just actually copying parts of the scripture. Write it
out by hand. And as you do, there's it's hitting
your brain and your heart in a little different way
than when you just read it. Or you may want
to paraphrase a paragraph or summarize a chapter. Um, in
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the in this Revival Hearts edition of the CSB note
taking Bible, the first 15 or so pages are just
some tips and guidelines and ideas for how people can
get started. Because when I was doing this myself, going
through the Bible those five years, I would post on
social media just little excerpts from what I was reading
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and writing. And the most common question was, how do
you do this? Like, can you give us some tips?
So we've captured those tips and there's nothing inspired about them.
It's just this is what was helpful to me that
I think may be helpful to others. And there are
actually some pictures of my first note taking Bible in there.
So you can get a sense of of how I
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did this on the page. But just some ideas to
get started on what you might write down and how
you might use a tool like this to be meaningful.
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I think as a perfectionist, I would want to write
in pencil, you know, because it's like I'm going to
say I'm going to put something down here or I'll
remember the Cubs score and I'll put it in there.
And I know you're a Cubs fan. It's like, I
don't want the Cubs score to go in the Bible here.
You know, that's what I'm thinking about today. But then
I think, you know, if that's what is going on
in your mind 50 years from now, you can look
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back and read. You know, that was a big deal
to me. You know, the baseball game or the the
what was going on with the kids or the things
that were happening in your life at the time. God
is interested in those in those seemingly insignificant things. That's
a part of who you are. And so I want
to when I come to something like this, uh, and
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I've been doing it, but not actually in a Bible
in a little bit different way, which is the same thing.
But in doing that, it's like, no, don't discount who
you are, that God delights in you. That's the other
thing I've been doing is looking for the word delight
in the scriptures and putting a little D beside the
verse and looking for the word fear. And when people
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were afraid, uh, and when it says fear the Lord
and what that does. And that's it's just amazing to
me how often those things come up. Fear and delight
come up.
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Yes, yes. And that's exactly what you're doing. Is meditating
on God's word, examining it, putting it under a microscope,
thinking about it. It's like, you know, a precious gem
or jewel, and you look at it from different angles
and you see different prisms and beauties about it. And
that's what we're doing. We're turning the Word of God
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over and over. You know, that word meditation I've heard
is something like a cow chewing its cud. It's it's
getting the nutrients. And I'm going to probably say this
wrong because I don't really know much about cows, but, um,
it's it's taking it into your being and not just
rushing past it. It's digesting it. It's savoring it. And
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that's where having a pen or pencil in hand. And
don't be afraid, you know, I'm looking at my note
taking Bible and I've scratched out some things that were
mistakes or that I didn't say the way I wanted
to say. Listen, nobody. The only book in the world,
in the history of the world that doesn't need editing
is God's Word. That's the only. There's the Psalm 119 says,
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I've seen, um, a limit to all perception, to all perfection,
but there is no limit to your word. Uh, so
there's there's his. It's perfect. That's all. That's perfect. And
what we write is not perfect. There are things in my.
I actually had a friend, a teenage girl, that I
paid over the course of five years to transcribe all
of my handwritten notes. So now they're all in Google Docs. And, um,
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I look back on some of that stuff and I'm going,
now that I've studied that passage again, I didn't get
it quite right. So it's it's not inspired. The Holy
Spirit has inspired the Word of God, but I'm trying
to understand it. I'm praying, Lord, give me understanding and
help this word to change me, to transform me from
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the inside out. And that's exactly what it does.
S1 (36:15):
And if that's your heart, if you want God to
do something, there's a surrender. There's a submission. You know, Lord,
I put myself under your word. Would you teach me here?
Instruct me. Help me to know what you want me
to know and how to respond to this. The response, then,
will come out of that as you engage the text
and you let God engage your heart. This is Chris
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Faber Live. We're talking with Nancy DeMoss, Wolgemuth today at
the Radio Backyard Fence. Yesterday, the CSB note taking Bible
Revive Our Hearts edition came out. We have it linked
at Chris. Chris Fabry live more straight ahead on Moody Radio.
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Yvonne says I've already read the Bible through each year
after hearing Nancy talking about reading it slowly and journaling.
I started doing that. Thank her for a new way
of reading God's Word. I think this is going to be, uh. Well,
Nancy was with us two and a half years ago,
and we talked about this. So many of you are
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already doing that. This is a tool. It's the CSB
note taking Bible. It's our featured resource, came out yesterday
to revive our hearts edition. And if you want Nancy
to sign your copy, you can go to True Woman 25.
It's going to be October 2 to 4 in Indianapolis.
The word behold the wonder with you and Danny and
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Mary Kassian and a host of Jackie Hill. Perry is
going to be there. Shane and Shane are going to
lead music, and there are pre-conferences. One that really gets
me is, uh, constructing a living faith in an age
of deconstruction. So there's a lot going on there. And
you say, I can't get to Indianapolis in October. Well,
you can live stream it. stream it. You can be
part of the live stream. You'll find out all about that@revive.com.
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We have a link to The True Woman 25 again
October 2nd through four in Indianapolis. Just go to chris.org
or go to the revive our website and you can
find out more about that. And uh, that's that's going
to be fun I see and DW is going to
speak and that's you right?
S3 (38:32):
Yes.
S2 (38:33):
Yes, it is for sure.
S3 (38:35):
All right.
S1 (38:35):
So, um, so a final lesson in this final segment, the, uh,
and what Yvonne said that because you've said to do this,
she started it and it's opening up a whole new world.
That's what you want to do, isn't it?
S2 (38:50):
I love that, yes. People take soaking in the word
and letting it change how they think, what their perspective is,
how they feel, how they respond. And each season of
life is different. So we need the Word of God
in each season. And if if it would be okay. Chris,
I would love to just read a short piece of verse,
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not Bible verse, but that is in the front of
these Bibles. Something I wrote as I was thinking through
this project. Is this the Pope called? Yes. Oh, could
I just ask you.
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How did you know that I was going to ask.
S4 (39:23):
You to read that.
S2 (39:24):
But I just, um. Because this is my heart, and
it's just titled the word. What a wonder it is.
It will light your way in the darkness. It will
calm your anxious heart, heal your wounds, warn you of danger,
protect and cleanse you from sin and make you wise.
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It will bring you joy. It is bread. It is water.
It is a counselor. It is life. It is satisfying.
It is sufficient. It is supreme. It is supernatural. It
will lead you to Christ, the living Word. And the
sight of him will change you forever.
S1 (40:04):
I love it.
S2 (40:05):
I just that's why we did this project. And that's
why with every breath I have, I'm trying to get
people into the word and get the word into them.
There just is nothing. Nothing, nothing like it.
S1 (40:18):
Speaking of Indiana, Joella is there? Hey, Joella. Go right ahead.
Why did you call today?
S4 (40:22):
Hey.
S5 (40:23):
Good morning or good afternoon? You were both speaking of it,
but just. I used to be so intimidated about writing
in my Bible. Um, in fear of I'm not writing
well enough or it's not making sense. But it's not.
It's my. It's my communication with God. It's. It's me
reading his word and him talking back to me and
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just providing the insight he wants me to hear. And,
you know, there's some that have eloquent speaking or can
write beautifully, but it doesn't matter. Do we care as
parents what our children draw pictures like? No, we we
We bask upon the fact that they did something beautiful.
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And that's what he does with us and us with him.
S2 (41:12):
That's beautiful. Joella.
S4 (41:13):
I'm so glad you said that.
S1 (41:15):
That's very encouraging, because unless you become like little children. Right?
That's what Jesus said, wasn't it?
S2 (41:22):
Yes. And all of our prayers. You think they they must,
in a way, sound like two year olds do to
parents when we pray to the Lord. There's so much
more that we don't know than we do know. And
we're fumbling and feeble and frail in how we pray.
But our father loves for us to come and tell
him our heart and express it to him, and see
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the growth and see us change. And, um, he's he's merciful,
he's kind. He I think our father loves it when
we're responding to him in every way possible, including writing
notes that may not be publishable or something that we
would hold up, you know, like some great masterpiece. But
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it's not about a masterpiece. It's about a relationship with
the Lord. And he loves us to come to him
and express our hearts to him.
S1 (42:12):
He delights in us. And also, these notes can take you.
You can you can look back at them in a
year or two or as in your case, five years later,
you can look back and say, hey, this is what
I thought about that. Then I've deepened my understanding of
this or I don't, or this, this understanding that I
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got this morning. The spirit must have been working, because
that's pretty good because I didn't remember that. I put
that down. You know, it will illumine your own growth
as well as help you give praise to God for
what he's teaching you. Now, here's the question. How do
you avoid making a verse mean something that it doesn't
mean you know you're reading through in the Old Testament
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or new, and you're going through a difficulty and you
see a part of a verse or a phrase and
you think, oh, God is trying to tell me that.
How do I avoid reading into a verse something for
me that might not be there?
S2 (43:11):
Well, that's a whole other program. And it's so important
that we become disciplined, careful students of God's Word. And
there are ways of studying God's Word that are principles
that are helpful in how we interpret Scripture, how we
apply Scripture. And I always want to be learning those.
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We talked about pastor MacArthur at the top of this program,
and what a careful student of God's Word he was.
And I feel like a child next to some of
these great Bible teachers of the past and present. But
I'm learning, I'm growing, and I'm sure I've applied some
passages in ways that weren't exactly as they were intended.
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So I write humbly. I respond humbly to the text
and say, I think I've got this. Lord, give me understanding.
Protect me from, um, you know, coming to conclusions that
aren't actually in the text and then always letting the
scripture shine light on the scripture. So make sure that
whatever I'm seeing in that text is consistent with other
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things in the Scripture, like if it says, well, if
I get to know an illustration here, I'll get in trouble.
But you may take something to mean, you know, I
should leave my husband or I should. Right. Not ever
speak to my parents again because of some phrase I
read here. Well, make sure what you're applying is putting
the whole of Scripture together. And that's where we have
to be humble and learning and growing and willing to
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change when we see we didn't get it quite right.
S1 (44:42):
I was going through the first Timothy. Uh, toward the
end of chapter four. And this is one of the
things that doctor MacArthur that they had grace to you
that they posted for him was this passage. And verse
14 says, don't neglect the gift that is in you.
And I read that the other day and I thought,
what is the gift that I have in me? And
what does God want me to do? And I started
to extrapolate, you know, go down. Well, God's given me
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the gift of this. So he must be saying to
me today that I want to. And then I look
at the rest of the verse. It was given to
you through prophecy, with the laying on of hands, and
by the council of elders. So this is specifically written
to Timothy about his position there in the church as
a young pastor, you know, interacting with them. And it's like, no,
this is specifically for Timothy, but I can I can
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apply that to my life to not neglect the gift
that God has given me. So, you know, I was
I had to I had to work on that. I
had to ruminate on it. Like you.
S4 (45:37):
Said, context.
S2 (45:38):
Matters.
S4 (45:38):
Right?
S1 (45:38):
Yes it does.
S4 (45:40):
Yeah. So.
S1 (45:41):
Nancy, that would really fast. You got to come back
and talk more with us about this and other things.
S2 (45:46):
Thank you Chris, thank you for loving God's Word. And
thank you for encouraging our listeners to do that. There's
no greater joy than knowing God.
S4 (45:54):
So we have a link.
S1 (45:56):
For Truman, 25th October, two through four in Indianapolis or online.
You can do the you can sign up for that.
But the main reason I wanted to have Nancy on
is yesterday the CSB note taking Bible came out that
Revive our Hearts edition. I have the pretty one here.
There's three different covers. There's a denim cover. There's the
what was the middle one?
S2 (46:16):
It's a leather touch. It's a sage. It's beautiful. Feels great.
And then the floral one that I don't know why
we sent you a floral one, Chris, but.
S4 (46:24):
Somebody's trying to tell me.
S1 (46:26):
Something. I think I need more flowers in my life.
S4 (46:28):
That's what I got some daughters.
S1 (46:31):
Really? Well, this.
S4 (46:32):
Is this is.
S1 (46:33):
Going to be something. This is a game changer. And
you get the Bible into your heart and life and
it will change it, I guarantee you. Thanks for listening.
Come on back tomorrow, Chris Faber Lives production and Moody Radio,
a ministry of Moody Bible Institute online Chris Fabry live.
Welcome to the continuing conversation. We call Chris Fabry Live
because I'm Chris Fabry and we are live, except where
we're not. On the first live broadcast of 2023, two
and a half years ago, we had a conversation with
Revive Our Hearts, Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth about Bible journaling. And
the more we talked about that, the more excited I
got about the process that Nancy was talking about, because
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it does. One of the things that I'm hoping that
this program does for you every day, and that is
it slows you down. So here is a ministry leader,
something the ministry leader, a Bible teacher, a pastor, a professor.
We have a resource for you today that will help you.
But but not only those people, but also everyday ordinary
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believers like you and me who want to connect your
heart with God's heart and have him guide you every day.
Proverbs 16 nine A person's heart plans his way, but
the Lord determines his steps. So today, two and a
half years later, Nancy's back because her discussion that day
is now something you can hold in your hand, something
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you can use to do what I just described, and
you'll hear about it straight ahead. On Chris Fabry live
Online Chris Fabry Lilleborg Fabriker. Let me thank our team
behind the scenes. Ryan McConaughey's doing all things technical. Trisha's
in the chair. Today, our producer Ryan, will be answering
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And let me thank the team that encourages us with
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Or you can call 866958669532279. Thanks. Here in the summer months,
it gets a little slower in the summer months because
a lot of people are on vacation, that kind of thing. So, uh,
thanks for your support. If you hear this and you say, yeah,
I want to support what you do at the back fence.
Give us a call or go to the website where
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you'll also find out about Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, who is
founder and lead Bible teacher for Revive Our Hearts ministry,
dedicated to calling women to freedom, fullness and fruitfulness in Christ.
You hear her on two daily audio teachings revive our
hearts and seeking him. Her books have sold more than
4 million copies and are reaching the hearts of women
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around the world. Nancy and her husband, Robert live in
Michigan and are featured resource today. Just came out yesterday.
It is the CSB Christian Standard Bible, note taking Bible
CSB note taking Bible Revive our Hearts edition. And I've
got my copy and I call it the Purdy Bible
because it is it's got flowers on it and it's purdy.
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And Nancy, welcome back. How you doing today?
S2 (03:26):
I'm doing great, Chris. Thank you. And for those who
may not be into flowers, we have a couple of
other stunningly beautiful covers as well. So take your pick.
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Or handsome, you could call them handsome.
S2 (03:38):
Or handsome right. We got the purdy one and the
handsome one.
S1 (03:41):
Oh, I like the purdy one. Because one of the
things I was thinking about this is this is. I mean,
you could take it to church with you, but this
is more of an intimate Bible that you have in
the corner where you study each morning and you get
your cup of coffee and you just sit down there
with the word and a pen and your own heart and.
But correct me if I'm wrong. Is that the idea?
S2 (04:02):
Totally. It's if you're going to take it to church,
it's a little bit of a weightlifting addition. Um, but
to have it there in your home where you sit
and read your Bible and then to be able to
to record your journey with the Lord as you walk
through Scripture. This is something I discovered, um, back in, oh,
maybe 6 or 7 years ago, uh, with another edition
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of this note taking Bible. And it I'm looking at
the one that I went through for five years from
Genesis to Revelation. It's it's I don't want to say
it's shredded because it's well made, but it's it's well used.
And this became my just certainly among my very most
prized possessions. It's such a record of the Lord's dealings
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with my own heart and of my engaging with his word.
I like to say this sitting down and taking notes.
Journaling as I was reading through the Bible became my
happy place. Yes. Ask Robert. It's just been such a
sweet thing to me. And so I was so thrilled
when our friends at home and Bibles at LifeWay said,
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we'd like to do a Revive our Hearts edition, and
that gave me the opportunity to share some of what
I'd been learning about how to how to journal in
the Bible and how to pray it back to the Lord.
So we're so thrilled now that this is available, and
I just believe it's going to help a lot of people.
It's going to do what it's done for me, which
is just heighten our love for the Word of God,
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getting into it and getting it into us.
S1 (05:36):
And there's somebody listening today who says, Nancy, I would
love to experience what you're talking about, but I read
the Bible. I don't understand it. So I want you
to listen through today. I want you to hear Nancy's
heart and see if this doesn't give you not only hope,
but the idea of, yeah, God wants to meet with me.
He wants to meet me where, right where I am
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and what I'm going through, and use his word to
speak into your life. So put that as a placeholder.
If you go to Chris Fabriclive org, you'll see the
CSB note taking Bible, which it's really I would say
it's the Journal Bible, but it has room on this.
I'll tell you all about it as we go along here.
But but it struck me this morning, those who are
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passing away, handing the baton to us, and I thought
of your ministry and immediately thought of Elisabeth Elliot, because
she was one who passed the baton to you a
number of years ago. Another teacher I miss greatly as
Warren Wiersbe. I miss hearing his voice, hearing his heart.
And then on Monday of this week, Doctor John MacArthur
passed away. And to me, the hallmark of his radio
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programs and the books that he wrote, you know, the Bible,
that he had the study Bible, the hallmark for him
was the laser focus on the scriptures as the inerrant, unchanging,
life giving Word of God. So would you reflect on
that just a little bit here as we start?
S2 (06:59):
Yes, and I have used that John MacArthur Study Bible
for years and years, as have millions of others, and
found such practical wisdom and help because I've been reading
the Bible for over 60 years myself since I could
read many, many times. But I have questions all over
the place and things I'm going hmm, like what is
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meant by that? And why is that in there? And
so to have these who've gone before us and have
been serious students of God's Word provide that kind of
assistance is such a gift to the church. And I
didn't have the privilege of knowing doctor MacArthur well. But
I've been so grateful over the years for how pastoring
one church for over 55 years and how he didn't.
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It wasn't anything novel. It wasn't anything showy or any performance,
or it was just the faithful, steady teaching of the
Word of God. Verse by verse, chapter by chapter, book
by book, and letting the Scripture explain itself. And he
taught a lot of us how to do that. Um,
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so he's been a faithful servant of the Lord. I'm
just so thankful. And I'll tell you what else, Chris. Um,
you've seen, I'm sure have seen interviews that doctor MacArthur
did on secular news outlets or talk shows where he
would be challenged about, you know, whatever the contemporary issues
were and controversial issues. And there are places where it's
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it's just hard sometimes to defend the Christian worldview and faith.
But I remember hearing doctor MacArthur say over and over again, well,
the Bible says that. And he would just take us
to what the Bible says. And I heard, uh, yesterday
a clip on social media from a Jewish social media
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influencer who had interviewed McArthur a couple of times, and
he said how much he respected doctor McArthur because in
their live interviews, doctor McArthur would take him to the
New Testament and would show him how it relates to
the Old Testament. And this is this Jewish man influencer
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saying this about doctor McArthur. He said he tried, he
felt I needed he wanted to convert me to become
a Christian. And he said, I didn't take offence at
that because I knew that he cared about my soul.
So you know the Bible. It's it's the word of God.
What a wonder it is. So doctor McArthur would be
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the first to say Elizabeth Elliot Warren Wiersbe, they would say,
and I hope one day when I'm lying in the grave,
that those who are speaking about me will say the
same thing. It wasn't about him. It wasn't about her.
It was about Jesus and the gospel and the Word
of God. And that's I, you and I, Chris, are
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following in the steps of people like these who've gone
before us, and that's what we want to be as
faithful to the Word of God, because we know it's
not what we think. It's not what we say that
changes lives or that gives life. It's the Word of God.
God speaking through his word. He did back when it
was written thousands of years ago. He's still doing it today.
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And what a joy it is to help people hear
the voice of God in the Word of God.
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Yes. And that's what we want to do today. As
a matter of fact, in the, uh, opening the flyleaf
of the Bible where you present, if you give this
as a gift, the verse that's under that is Isaiah 40,
verse eight, the grass withers, the flowers fade, but the
word of our God remains forever. So that's why we
like to talk about it. And all this week we're
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doing some aspect of God's Word in each of the
programs that we're talking about. Um, and we're going to
do that tomorrow with study in Second Corinthians. But today
we have for you. Uh, Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, the CSB
note Taking Bible Revive our Hearts edition. We have a
a link to that at Chris Fabry Live as well.
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There's a True Woman conference coming up in October that
we'll tell you about, and a link to that as well.
Just go to Chris. Moore with Nancy straight ahead on
Moody Radio. From Revive Our Hearts, Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth is
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with us today. She's written a number of books, lies,
Women Believe and the Truth that Sets Them Free. Adorned.
Living out the beauty of the gospel together. Find out
more about her. and the new Bible that is out yesterday.
It just came out yesterday. The CSB note Taking Bible
Revive Our Hearts edition. And you mentioned the the weight
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of this part of the reason why it is so
heavy is, I think, is because this is not onion
skin that it's printed on, it's printed on paper that
you can write on that's not going to bleed through
to the next page. Or at least that's what I,
I don't know what this paper is. Do you know
what it is?
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No, that's that's that's beyond my pay grade. But you're
exactly right. It's easy to write in and on. And
also it has these two inch margins next to the
text on the left page and on the right page
that are lined with places for the reader to record, observations,
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to ask questions, to grapple with the text, to write prayers,
to write responses. I have I'm on in a second
version of this actually now myself. And this morning I
was in Psalm 119 and I, I wrote in the
margin here I have very small, tiny handwriting, but I
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can read it and I wrote, I just made a
list of the verbs in Psalm 119 that talk about
how we relate to God's Word, how the psalmist said
so to love God's Word, to study it, to hope
in it, to trust in it, to learn it, to
think about it, to walk in it, to meditate on it,
to delight in it, etc.. So I made a list there, probably,
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I don't know, 20 or 30 verbs here in the
margin that I was able to jot down as I
was reading through the Psalm this morning. And it just
it helps keep my mind from wandering like I'm embarrassed
to say that my mind wanders when I read God's Word. Like,
how can that be true? But it is true. And
so this helps me think about what I'm reading. It
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helps me deal with it. It helps. It puts a
mirror to my own heart of like, do I love
God's Word this way? Do I delight in God's Word
this way? Well, I want to. And then in Psalm 119,
there are plenty of prayers. O Lord, give me life
according to your word. Strengthen me through your word. Help
me understand your word. So this writing space gives me
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a place to interact with and engage with the holy, precious,
amazing Word of God.
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I like the Psalm you took us to Psalm 119,
and that's a long one. Let's be honest. That's it.
That's a commitment in the morning. Um, I've actually.
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Been listening to it while I'm following along, though, and
it's 17 minutes. And I said, between now and our
True Woman conference, where I'm going to be speaking on
Psalm 119 and don't worry, it won't be a five
hour message. But I've been listening to and following along
in my note taking Bible, Psalm 119 every morning. And
it's it's I mean, I've been familiar with it. I've
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read it many times and it is long. It takes
17 minutes to listen to it, but it's so precious,
so beautiful and so worth it.
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Whose voice do you hear? Who reads that?
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I don't know who it is.
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But.
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There's a CSB Bible app. I love I like the voice,
and it's, um. I mean, it's just beautifully read scripture.
It's just another way to take in the scripture, but
I'm I can listen to it and I can follow
along in the Bible here and then be making notes
in the margin as I'm doing it.
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Yeah. And that the ability to do that then ask questions.
Do you also underline specific words or highlight specific words
in the text?
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Oh yes. In fact, I can remember when I was
a kid, my dad telling me he would look at
my Bible and I'd underline so many things that I
loved and that I was thankful for or I was
engaging with, and he'd say, honey, maybe you should just
underline the parts that you don't want to emphasize because
it was so much. But and that was not a criticism. Um,
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but yes. And I some people like doing it with
color coded pencils and markers and Kay Arthur with preset ministry.
If people have taken her studies, they probably have some
markers like that. I just have my same cheap BIC pen.
Fine point and I, but I mark in different ways
if I want to see commands or prayers or um,
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if I want to emphasize I highlighted in different ways. Um,
but I'm just trying to get into the word and
get the word into me. That's what the goal is.
And when it gets into.
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Us, it's.
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I'm slowing.
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Down. You have to slow down. If you're listening to
something for 17 minutes, you slow down and you allow
that to just kind of wash over your heart and soul.
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Yes, yes. And I think sometimes we my dad again, I,
I don't know why he's been in heaven for 45
years or something like that, but he, he and my
mom did such a great job of instilling in us
a love for God's Word. And he used to say
to us, he encouraged us to learn speed reading because
he felt it was a helpful tool to have. But
he would say, there are two things you should not
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speed read love letters and the Bible. So, you know,
sometimes we do speed read the Bible, or sometimes we
hear it read in a service and we just kind
of tune out. We think, I know that I've heard
that I'm familiar with that. But no, having a pen
in hand, maybe listening to an audio version, but reading
the text and making notes forces me to slow down
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and think about what I'm reading. And listen, Chris, that
you know that meditating on God's Word comes with some
amazing promises in Scripture. In Psalm one. In Joshua one,
it's promised that if we will meditate on the Word
of God, that we will be successful in all we do.
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And I just wonder how much I'm going to kind
of go out on a limb here. How much of
our anxiety, our frustration, our fears, our battles with sin,
our mental health issues, our relational challenges? I wonder how
many of those things might look really different if we
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were soaking in the Word of God? I get a
cup of tea every morning and I have these like
fancy little tea bags that are really pretty, and they've
got special herbs and things in them. And I heat
up the.
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Tea.
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Party tea, and I put the tea bag in the
water and I let it steep. What's happening? What's in
that tea bag is making its way into the water.
And it's supposed to be, like, rejuvenating or whatever, but
it's steeping. It's. It's so that it becomes a part
of the water. And that's what I want the Word
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of God to do. To do in me. I want
it to steep in me. I want to steep in
the Word of God so that it's infiltrating every part,
every particle, every pore of my being. And if it
sounds like I'm passionate about that, it's because I am.
There is nothing like the Word of God to counsel
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our hearts, to encourage us when we're discouraged, to give
us hope, when we are in despair, to give us wisdom,
when we're making tough decisions and we don't know what
to do. To give us something worth living for when
we're bored. I mean, there just isn't a need in
our lives that somehow is not helped and blessed when
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we're steeping in the Word of God and letting it
settle into our hearts. So this journaling Bible, like it's
a it's a resource. It's a tool. Um, there's nothing special.
I mean, it's the only thing inspired about this Bible
is and it's the thing is the text. But anything
that helps me or helps others to get into it
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and get more out of it, I think is such
a blessing and a gift. And that's why we got
with our friends at LifeWay and said, let's make this
a resource that others. And one of the things we
put in this Bible, I don't want to jump ahead
of you here, but there are 150 prayers that are
scattered in the woven into the margins throughout the Bible.
And these are prayers that have come out of my
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own journaling through the Bible myself. They were originally handwritten
in my tiny, little illegible handwriting, and now they're printed
in the margins. And the reason for doing that was, um,
I wanted to model how you can take scripture, meditate
on it, and turn it into a prayer. So I
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my hope is that people will read those prayers and
they'll make them their own prayers, but then that they
will write their own fresh prayers from their own heart
as they meditate on the word. So sometimes those prayers start,
O Lord, and sometimes they start, yes, Lord. And sometimes
I start. Please, Lord. Um, but that was just my
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beginning of responding to what I was reading in the Scripture.
And so that's one of the features that I haven't
seen in another journaling or note taking Bible that I
think will be a blessing and an encouragement to those
who use this Revival Hearts edition.
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And that is that's one of the things I love
about this, is because the text is in the middle
of the, you know, the unfolded pages, it's in the middle.
So you have note taking on the left side and
the right side. And so the only thing you're going
to see in the margins that is printed in there
are some prayers like here. Psalm 119 130 says, the
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revelation of your words brings light and gives understanding to
the inexperienced. And Nancy's prayer is, O Lord, shine the
light of your word into my heart, bringing wisdom and understanding.
May all darkness be dispelled. Let there be no pretense,
no covering, no resistance, just the pure, radiant beauty of
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your presence and truth. Amen. So that is in. That
takes up a few of the lines over here, but
the rest of it is just you and God's Word.
There are. And I thought, you know, there's I've got
study Bibles. I have a really good study Bible over
here that I use as my kind of my daily
go to, but it has. And I asked the one
who was the general editor, I said, you know, the
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thing I don't like is when it breaks the text up,
let's say in Proverbs, you know, I'm going through a
proverb and it has the first ten verses here, and
then a note, and then it has the next one.
It's like, I like to see it all together. It's
just something about me. And he said, okay, I understand.
Sorry I couldn't do that for you, Chris. But I
look at this and it's like, other than where there's
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a manuscript variants where you need to have, you know,
in Mark chapter five or in Luke somewhere, it says,
you know, manuscripts use this word. Other than that, I
don't see any other commentary or, you know, cross-references, cross-reference.
You know, there's nothing there except the words and then
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the chapter and verses.
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Mhm. Yeah, I love that. And then it just it's
not cluttered. So it gives me the a clearer head
and mind when I'm praying through it, thinking through it.
And sometimes I'll write my own cross-references or because it
will remind me. As I was reading Psalm 119 this morning,
there were verses that reminded me of another psalm, Psalm 19,
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that talked in both of these Psalms how the Word
of God is worth more than great gold and silver.
And it's how. How it's as sweet as honey to
our taste. So that made me think of another psalm.
So I jotted a note there in the margin. And
so it lets you put your own references and thoughts
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and prayers. Now, nothing I write in the margin is inspired.
I just want to make that clear. And I in
many cases have in my original going journaling through the
whole Bible, which was a five year amazing journey. Um,
I many times I would write down, I have no
idea what this is talking about. Lord, help me understand
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what this means. Or I would ask questions who is
this about? What is this for? What is this saying?
So it's grappling with the text, then responding and through
surrender through saying, yes, Lord, through Lord, help me to
obey this. Lord. I agree with what you said or
jotting down sometimes even very personal things if if the
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Scripture is talking about forgiveness, is there somebody I need
to forgive?
S1 (24:31):
And okay, wait a minute, because I know this Bible
is something that you say and you know it's given
from one person to another as a gift. And then
it says, after you finish this, maybe there's somebody you
want to lovingly pass it along to, you know, somebody
in the family or, you know, a kind of a
legacy thing. So if you're totally honest about I want
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to forgive Robert because he said this to me, and
you don't want to you don't want.
S3 (24:55):
To put that on another piece of paper.
S2 (24:57):
Uh, so yes, that's one great possible use. And I've
heard some, especially some grandmothers and mothers with older children saying,
I would like to go through this note taking Bible,
make my own notes, um, that are there personal, but
they're not private. And then maybe some prayers for that
child or that grandchild, or that friend I've been discipling
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or mentoring that I would eventually like to pass it
on to them. So there's actually a presentation page at
the beginning, and this could be years down the road
where you leave this as a legacy gift. In fact,
a mom told me recently that her husband is doing
this for their daughters, so this would be a great
tool to use for that.
S1 (25:35):
Absolutely. The CSB note Taking Bible Revive Our Hearts edition
just came out yesterday. We have it linked at fabriclive.
We also have a link there to True Woman 25th October,
two through four in Indianapolis. More straight ahead. Nancy DeMoss
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Wolgemuth is with us today. You can tell how passionate
she is about God's Word and getting God's Word in
here inside us, meditating on it, letting it do its work.
Because you know what? Nobody can meditate on God's Word
for you. I mean, there are some great tools out there,
some great study Bibles that you can have, a great
books that are written about the Bible. But there is
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no one who can meditate on God's Word for you.
That's something only you can do for you. And I
think this CSB note taking Bible Revive our Hearts edition,
what I call the Nancy Purdy Bible is, is something
that's going to help you do that. Uh, and here's
the other idea that I have, Nancy. And it is
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is there somebody in your life of you write mainly
for women, but it also, you know, instead of the
flower on the on the cover, you have some that
are more, uh, generic, you know, masculine. So there could
be a man or a woman who's lost their spouse
or had a big loss in their life, a big change,
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a big change in seasons of their life. Giving a
Bible like this and saying and inscribing it to them
so that then they can read through the scriptures for
themselves in light of the loss in light of the struggle,
the difficulty, the whatever it is. God, would you meet
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me here where I am this morning? This is what
I'm going through that could change a heart forever.
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Yeah, there's no greater encouragement than God gives through his holy,
precious word, because it's his presence that is mediated to
us through His Word. That's where we encounter him. That's
where we meet him. That's where he meets with us.
So seasons of loss, seasons of trials. I'm also I've
been signing some of these Bibles over the last week
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or so since we first got Ahold of them, and
I've sent a few to, um, high school students are
just going into college. Just young adults, teenagers that I
know are interested in spiritual things, and I want to
encourage them to develop a love for God's Word. Not
a so-so casual relationship with it, but a real personal
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relationship with it. And I want them to get in
this habit, which has been such a joyful thing to
me for so many years. So I think there are
a lot of different seasons. Some people, you know, have
more time on their hands in this season than they
do in others. So you say, well, I've got I
was talking this morning, in fact, sent one of these
Bibles to a mom who's got four little children, one
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of whom has special needs and is in the hospital
right now. Well, that mom doesn't have a lot of
time on her hands, so she doesn't have to go
through the whole thing from Genesis to Revelation, as I
did over the course of time. She can open to
wherever she's reading. By that.
S3 (29:02):
Point.
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Philemon has actually some great encouraging words in it. And
it's a short passage, but in the Psalms or in
the Gospels or wherever, and find encouragement and hope and record, I,
I put the date where I'm reading. That's one of
the things I do in my note taking Bible so
I can go back and see, here's here's where I
was here. Here's the play. If I'm out of town,
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I put the the town I'm in where I'm staying or,
you know, on vacation or whatever. And just it becomes
a bit of a record of God's dealings with me.
You don't have to fill in all the lines. Some people,
you know, drawing or sketching or making maps or, um,
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you know, use be creative about how you use that
space in the margins. I'm I like words, I like
writing words. So mine doesn't have any pretty thing in it.
It's just words. But it's they're they're personal. They're precious
to me. They're, um, I, I started this the first
one I did in on January 1st of 2018, and
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I opened a Genesis one one. I didn't know what
I was going to write. I didn't I didn't know
what to do with all this space. And I kind
of was feeling my way. I'd never done anything like
this before. So here's just a paragraph of what I
wrote on. I wrote the date, chapter one of Genesis.
We stand at the beginning of a new year. God
is here because it says in the beginning, God. He
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has always been. He always will be. Apart from him,
all of life and earth is shapeless, meaningless, futile, empty
and dark. But in him is life and light. His
spirit hovers over this earth. He speaks light into the
darkness of our world. He creates. He orders. He separates.
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He defines. It is good what he declares happens. What
he ordains comes into being. There are no obstacles to
his power. Nothing can withstand his purposes. So that was
the first paragraph I wrote in the first time I
went through a journaling Bible, and it was about years
will look very different and somebody else's will look very different.
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So I was just highlighting words that stood out to
me and putting it together and meditating on it and
kind of trying to capture my thoughts and meditation as
I was reading the text. And that's what I proceeded
to do for the next 1289 chapters to great, great joy.
S1 (31:32):
700,000 words you wrote in that little script that you have.
700,000 words. And you're not saying that everybody will do
it that way.
S3 (31:43):
You did.
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No. And it doesn't have to be that way. You
might want to outline. You might sometimes you may just
want to. I think there's there's beauty and value sometimes
in just actually copying parts of the scripture. Write it
out by hand. And as you do, there's it's hitting
your brain and your heart in a little different way
than when you just read it. Or you may want
to paraphrase a paragraph or summarize a chapter. Um, in
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the in this Revival Hearts edition of the CSB note
taking Bible, the first 15 or so pages are just
some tips and guidelines and ideas for how people can
get started. Because when I was doing this myself, going
through the Bible those five years, I would post on
social media just little excerpts from what I was reading
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and writing. And the most common question was, how do
you do this? Like, can you give us some tips?
So we've captured those tips and there's nothing inspired about them.
It's just this is what was helpful to me that
I think may be helpful to others. And there are
actually some pictures of my first note taking Bible in there.
So you can get a sense of of how I
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did this on the page. But just some ideas to
get started on what you might write down and how
you might use a tool like this to be meaningful.
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I think as a perfectionist, I would want to write
in pencil, you know, because it's like I'm going to
say I'm going to put something down here or I'll
remember the Cubs score and I'll put it in there.
And I know you're a Cubs fan. It's like, I
don't want the Cubs score to go in the Bible here.
You know, that's what I'm thinking about today. But then
I think, you know, if that's what is going on
in your mind 50 years from now, you can look
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back and read. You know, that was a big deal
to me. You know, the baseball game or the the
what was going on with the kids or the things
that were happening in your life at the time. God
is interested in those in those seemingly insignificant things. That's
a part of who you are. And so I want
to when I come to something like this, uh, and
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I've been doing it, but not actually in a Bible
in a little bit different way, which is the same thing.
But in doing that, it's like, no, don't discount who
you are, that God delights in you. That's the other
thing I've been doing is looking for the word delight
in the scriptures and putting a little D beside the
verse and looking for the word fear. And when people
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were afraid, uh, and when it says fear the Lord
and what that does. And that's it's just amazing to
me how often those things come up. Fear and delight
come up.
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Yes, yes. And that's exactly what you're doing. Is meditating
on God's word, examining it, putting it under a microscope,
thinking about it. It's like, you know, a precious gem
or jewel, and you look at it from different angles
and you see different prisms and beauties about it. And
that's what we're doing. We're turning the Word of God
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over and over. You know, that word meditation I've heard
is something like a cow chewing its cud. It's it's
getting the nutrients. And I'm going to probably say this
wrong because I don't really know much about cows, but, um,
it's it's taking it into your being and not just
rushing past it. It's digesting it. It's savoring it. And
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that's where having a pen or pencil in hand. And
don't be afraid, you know, I'm looking at my note
taking Bible and I've scratched out some things that were
mistakes or that I didn't say the way I wanted
to say. Listen, nobody. The only book in the world,
in the history of the world that doesn't need editing
is God's Word. That's the only. There's the Psalm 119 says,
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I've seen, um, a limit to all perception, to all perfection,
but there is no limit to your word. Uh, so
there's there's his. It's perfect. That's all. That's perfect. And
what we write is not perfect. There are things in my.
I actually had a friend, a teenage girl, that I
paid over the course of five years to transcribe all
of my handwritten notes. So now they're all in Google Docs. And, um,
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I look back on some of that stuff and I'm going,
now that I've studied that passage again, I didn't get
it quite right. So it's it's not inspired. The Holy
Spirit has inspired the Word of God, but I'm trying
to understand it. I'm praying, Lord, give me understanding and
help this word to change me, to transform me from
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the inside out. And that's exactly what it does.
S1 (36:15):
And if that's your heart, if you want God to
do something, there's a surrender. There's a submission. You know, Lord,
I put myself under your word. Would you teach me here?
Instruct me. Help me to know what you want me
to know and how to respond to this. The response, then,
will come out of that as you engage the text
and you let God engage your heart. This is Chris
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Faber Live. We're talking with Nancy DeMoss, Wolgemuth today at
the Radio Backyard Fence. Yesterday, the CSB note taking Bible
Revive Our Hearts edition came out. We have it linked
at Chris. Chris Fabry live more straight ahead on Moody Radio.
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Yvonne says I've already read the Bible through each year
after hearing Nancy talking about reading it slowly and journaling.
I started doing that. Thank her for a new way
of reading God's Word. I think this is going to be, uh. Well,
Nancy was with us two and a half years ago,
and we talked about this. So many of you are
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already doing that. This is a tool. It's the CSB
note taking Bible. It's our featured resource, came out yesterday
to revive our hearts edition. And if you want Nancy
to sign your copy, you can go to True Woman 25.
It's going to be October 2 to 4 in Indianapolis.
The word behold the wonder with you and Danny and
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Mary Kassian and a host of Jackie Hill. Perry is
going to be there. Shane and Shane are going to
lead music, and there are pre-conferences. One that really gets
me is, uh, constructing a living faith in an age
of deconstruction. So there's a lot going on there. And
you say, I can't get to Indianapolis in October. Well,
you can live stream it. stream it. You can be
part of the live stream. You'll find out all about that@revive.com.
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We have a link to The True Woman 25 again
October 2nd through four in Indianapolis. Just go to chris.org
or go to the revive our website and you can
find out more about that. And uh, that's that's going
to be fun I see and DW is going to
speak and that's you right?
S3 (38:32):
Yes.
S2 (38:33):
Yes, it is for sure.
S3 (38:35):
All right.
S1 (38:35):
So, um, so a final lesson in this final segment, the, uh,
and what Yvonne said that because you've said to do this,
she started it and it's opening up a whole new world.
That's what you want to do, isn't it?
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I love that, yes. People take soaking in the word
and letting it change how they think, what their perspective is,
how they feel, how they respond. And each season of
life is different. So we need the Word of God
in each season. And if if it would be okay. Chris,
I would love to just read a short piece of verse,
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not Bible verse, but that is in the front of
these Bibles. Something I wrote as I was thinking through
this project. Is this the Pope called? Yes. Oh, could
I just ask you.
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How did you know that I was going to ask.
S4 (39:23):
You to read that.
S2 (39:24):
But I just, um. Because this is my heart, and
it's just titled the word. What a wonder it is.
It will light your way in the darkness. It will
calm your anxious heart, heal your wounds, warn you of danger,
protect and cleanse you from sin and make you wise.
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It will bring you joy. It is bread. It is water.
It is a counselor. It is life. It is satisfying.
It is sufficient. It is supreme. It is supernatural. It
will lead you to Christ, the living Word. And the
sight of him will change you forever.
S1 (40:04):
I love it.
S2 (40:05):
I just that's why we did this project. And that's
why with every breath I have, I'm trying to get
people into the word and get the word into them.
There just is nothing. Nothing, nothing like it.
S1 (40:18):
Speaking of Indiana, Joella is there? Hey, Joella. Go right ahead.
Why did you call today?
S4 (40:22):
Hey.
S5 (40:23):
Good morning or good afternoon? You were both speaking of it,
but just. I used to be so intimidated about writing
in my Bible. Um, in fear of I'm not writing
well enough or it's not making sense. But it's not.
It's my. It's my communication with God. It's. It's me
reading his word and him talking back to me and
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just providing the insight he wants me to hear. And,
you know, there's some that have eloquent speaking or can
write beautifully, but it doesn't matter. Do we care as
parents what our children draw pictures like? No, we we
We bask upon the fact that they did something beautiful.
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And that's what he does with us and us with him.
S2 (41:12):
That's beautiful. Joella.
S4 (41:13):
I'm so glad you said that.
S1 (41:15):
That's very encouraging, because unless you become like little children. Right?
That's what Jesus said, wasn't it?
S2 (41:22):
Yes. And all of our prayers. You think they they must,
in a way, sound like two year olds do to
parents when we pray to the Lord. There's so much
more that we don't know than we do know. And
we're fumbling and feeble and frail in how we pray.
But our father loves for us to come and tell
him our heart and express it to him, and see
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the growth and see us change. And, um, he's he's merciful,
he's kind. He I think our father loves it when
we're responding to him in every way possible, including writing
notes that may not be publishable or something that we
would hold up, you know, like some great masterpiece. But
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it's not about a masterpiece. It's about a relationship with
the Lord. And he loves us to come to him
and express our hearts to him.
S1 (42:12):
He delights in us. And also, these notes can take you.
You can you can look back at them in a
year or two or as in your case, five years later,
you can look back and say, hey, this is what
I thought about that. Then I've deepened my understanding of
this or I don't, or this, this understanding that I
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got this morning. The spirit must have been working, because
that's pretty good because I didn't remember that. I put
that down. You know, it will illumine your own growth
as well as help you give praise to God for
what he's teaching you. Now, here's the question. How do
you avoid making a verse mean something that it doesn't
mean you know you're reading through in the Old Testament
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or new, and you're going through a difficulty and you
see a part of a verse or a phrase and
you think, oh, God is trying to tell me that.
How do I avoid reading into a verse something for
me that might not be there?
S2 (43:11):
Well, that's a whole other program. And it's so important
that we become disciplined, careful students of God's Word. And
there are ways of studying God's Word that are principles
that are helpful in how we interpret Scripture, how we
apply Scripture. And I always want to be learning those.
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We talked about pastor MacArthur at the top of this program,
and what a careful student of God's Word he was.
And I feel like a child next to some of
these great Bible teachers of the past and present. But
I'm learning, I'm growing, and I'm sure I've applied some
passages in ways that weren't exactly as they were intended.
(43:54):
So I write humbly. I respond humbly to the text
and say, I think I've got this. Lord, give me understanding.
Protect me from, um, you know, coming to conclusions that
aren't actually in the text and then always letting the
scripture shine light on the scripture. So make sure that
whatever I'm seeing in that text is consistent with other
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things in the Scripture, like if it says, well, if
I get to know an illustration here, I'll get in trouble.
But you may take something to mean, you know, I
should leave my husband or I should. Right. Not ever
speak to my parents again because of some phrase I
read here. Well, make sure what you're applying is putting
the whole of Scripture together. And that's where we have
to be humble and learning and growing and willing to
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change when we see we didn't get it quite right.
S1 (44:42):
I was going through the first Timothy. Uh, toward the
end of chapter four. And this is one of the
things that doctor MacArthur that they had grace to you
that they posted for him was this passage. And verse
14 says, don't neglect the gift that is in you.
And I read that the other day and I thought,
what is the gift that I have in me? And
what does God want me to do? And I started
to extrapolate, you know, go down. Well, God's given me
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the gift of this. So he must be saying to
me today that I want to. And then I look
at the rest of the verse. It was given to
you through prophecy, with the laying on of hands, and
by the council of elders. So this is specifically written
to Timothy about his position there in the church as
a young pastor, you know, interacting with them. And it's like, no,
this is specifically for Timothy, but I can I can
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apply that to my life to not neglect the gift
that God has given me. So, you know, I was
I had to I had to work on that. I
had to ruminate on it. Like you.
S4 (45:37):
Said, context.
S2 (45:38):
Matters.
S4 (45:38):
Right?
S1 (45:38):
Yes it does.
S4 (45:40):
Yeah. So.
S1 (45:41):
Nancy, that would really fast. You got to come back
and talk more with us about this and other things.
S2 (45:46):
Thank you Chris, thank you for loving God's Word. And
thank you for encouraging our listeners to do that. There's
no greater joy than knowing God.
S4 (45:54):
So we have a link.
S1 (45:56):
For Truman, 25th October, two through four in Indianapolis or online.
You can do the you can sign up for that.
But the main reason I wanted to have Nancy on
is yesterday the CSB note taking Bible came out that
Revive our Hearts edition. I have the pretty one here.
There's three different covers. There's a denim cover. There's the
what was the middle one?
S2 (46:16):
It's a leather touch. It's a sage. It's beautiful. Feels great.
And then the floral one that I don't know why
we sent you a floral one, Chris, but.
S4 (46:24):
Somebody's trying to tell me.
S1 (46:26):
Something. I think I need more flowers in my life.
S4 (46:28):
That's what I got some daughters.
S1 (46:31):
Really? Well, this.
S4 (46:32):
Is this is.
S1 (46:33):
Going to be something. This is a game changer. And
you get the Bible into your heart and life and
it will change it, I guarantee you. Thanks for listening.
Come on back tomorrow, Chris Faber Lives production and Moody Radio,
a ministry of Moody Bible Institute online Chris Fabry live.
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