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Bible Bee Practice Tests
Matthew Minica kindly developed practice tests for Bible Bee National Qualifiers and asked us to post them on Memverse for him. Here are the tests along with a note from Matthew:
Last Saturday, we went to visit our friends, the Smithes, who have a son Joshua going to the National Bible Bee as a Senior. We had a couple of their friends come over and held a mock Bible Bee with the three of us going to Nationals: Joshua, Courtney, and I. My dad suggested that we should make a practice test for each other, and I caught onto it right away. A couple days later, I had an idea: Why not share about this on Memverse!? So here is that practice test, all finished and ready to be administered.
Division | Practice Test | Answer Sheet |
Junior | PDF | DOC | PDF | DOC |
Senior | PDF | DOC | PDF | DOC |
There are a few things I would like to note: First, if you are a Primary who would like to take this test, I apologize for not making a Primary version of the test. The reason I did not is that I could not see any Primaries who were currently active on Memverse.
Second, the only difference between the Junior and Senior versions is 16 questions about some Level 3 passages; otherwise, the Junior and Senior tests are exactly the same.
Also, to take the test you will need the bubble sheet available here on the Bible Bee website.
I hope you enjoy this practice test and that it will really help and encourage you in your studying!
Matthew Minica
Romans 1:16
Update 11/11/11: Anna and Grace Mieczkowski (Senior National qualifier) have also created two awesome practice tests to share; one is for Primaries and the other is for Seniors. Juniors are advised to take the Primary test.
Division | Practice Test | Answer Sheet |
Primary | ||
Senior |
Thanks again, Matthew, Anna, and Grace, for working on these tests and sharing them. Blessings to all studying for Nationals!
Bible Bee, Nationals, practice
When is a Verse Memorized?
I want to encourage you to not focus too much on Memverse's designation of whether or not a verse is memorized. We picked 30 days as an arbitrary milestone which wouldn't prove to be too elusive but was also something to strive for. Truly committing a verse to memory, though, takes a lot longer and will likely require you to frequently select option 1 or 2 and start again.
Let me illustrate my point. All of us at some point had the equation for the roots of a quadratic drummed into our heads in high school. I remember being able to wake up in the middle of the night and recite it without hesitation. Like so much we learn, after leaving school I never had occasion to use the equation for about a decade. A year ago, I had to solve a quadratic and was astonished to find that I couldn't recall the formula. Something that I had once memorized perfectly was no longer accessible.
Fortunately, I asked Google and it gave me the answer. What I found interesting is that a single refreshing of that memory (after more than a decade) was sufficient to completely lay down the track again. I'm fairly sure I will remember it for the next twenty years.
This is why it is best to rate yourself as honestly as possible when reviewing your verses. I've been using Memverse now for over two years and I am starting to experience some of my early verses that I haven't had to review for a long time come up again. Some of them I remember and as I type them out again I can feel the memory track getting deeper. Others I have to reset and over the next few months, as the interval grows again, I get to really know them well.
That's how Memverse is designed to work. Next time you experience your mouse swaying between option 2 and 3, remember that the race is long and not necessarily to the swift. It's often better to reset a verse earlier, rather than later.
Incidentally: the roots of a quadratic are given by: -b +- sqrt(b^2-4ac)/2a
Supermemo, memory verses, recall
Verse Hero on impresskids.com
I praise God for those who use their talent to promote a love of Scripture. Impresskids.com has developed an incredible Scripture Memory Game. I hope you will join us and encourage your friends to join us on our Memverse page at impresskids.com Feel free to let me know what passages you want in what translations if they are not already available. Some of you may want to encourage your family, church, school, 2012 local Bible Bee, or home school group to consider making their own Impresskids.com page. Currently on the Memverse page we have:
Open to all guests: GALATIANS 2:20, JOHN 15:5-8; and PSALM 23 all in the 1984 NIV
Open to members only (registration is free)
On the impresskids.com website, the games are listed in alphabetical order
Feel free to request passages in other translations and we will add them.
Free Book Rewards from Scripture Memory Fellowship
Scripture Memory Fellowship (SMF) is an exciting ministry based in Hannibal, Missouri, which recently has branched out to embrace, endorse, and support other Scripture memory ministries and tools, while still using their trademark systematic Scripture memory rewards system started by founder Dr. N.A Woychuk (originally began as "Bible Memory Association - BMA"). The director of SMF, Jim Woychuk, has contacted us to offer prizes to those who have memorized verses on Memverse.
SMF will mail a free book to everyone who has memorized at least 200 verses on Memverse! Additional free books will be mailed when Memverse users reach 500 verses, 1,000 verses, 2,000 verses, 3,000, and every thousand after that. SMF will give a $100 gift certificate to CBD or the Bible Bee e-store (or other appropriate Christian enterprise) for anyone who reaches 10,000 verses on Memverse and another for every 10,000 after that.
The first one in SavedByGrace's group to memorize all 31,173 verses on Memverse will get a brand new car...just kidding about the new car, but thanks to SMF you will have a library of wonderful free books and $300 of gift certificates by the time you finish.
The current list of books to choose from are:
For 200 verses you can pick from:
- Valuable Selections from the Writings of George Müller | George Müller
- Valuable Selections from the Writings of Frances Ridley Havergal
- Jesus Commands (175 memory verses from the teachings of Jesus)
- Missionary Coloring Book (John 3:16 in 25 languages with flags and kids in native dress to color)
- Morning Bells by Frances Ridley Havergal
- Isaac Watt Biography by Dr. N.A. Woychuk
For 500 verses you can pick from the books above or:
- Abide in Me (Andrew Murray, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Henry Jowett, N. A. Woychuk)
- The Amazing Life of Christ, Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Keep In Memory, How to Enjoy Bible Memorizing with Profit, N. A. Woychuk
- Singing Psalms with Isaac Watts (includes Isaac Watt's biography)
- Checque Book of the Bank of Faith, C. H. Spurgeon, for those at verse level and above
For 1,000 or more verses you can pick from the books above or:
- Tic-Tac-Know - a Bible knowledge quiz game
- Spiritual Depression, Its Causes and Cure, with Lloyd-Jones audio CD
This post will be updated as more titles will be added to choose from. Those who have memorized 500 or more verses may claim multiple books at the same time. For example, if you are currently at 1,143 verses, you can receive 3 books (1 for 200, 500, and 1,000) and contact SMF for a 4th book when you reach 2,000 verses.
In addition to the book awards, SMF is also awarding a free week of SMF summer Scripture Memory Camp to 5 Memverse users each year who have memorized at least 500 verses on Memverse. If you have memorized 500 verses on Memverse and are interested in possibly attending the SMF camp this upcoming summer of 2012, please contact SMF. They will let you know when the dates and locations of the camps have been finalized. You will then have 2 weeks to confirm that you want to go, or your spot will be made available for another Memverse member with 500 verses who wants to go. If more than 5 request the free week of camp scholarship, a waiting list will be started. Those on the waiting list who do not get to go in 2012 will get first chance at the scholarship the following year.
To contact SMF for the free books or the free week of camp, or to get more information about these offers call (573) 231 - 0577 M-F between 8:30am and 5:30pm CDT or email email@example.com or mail them at SMF 245 N. Levering Ave, Hannibal, MO 63401 or stop in person to the Hannibal headquarters or see the SMF booth at the Bible Bee Nationals in Nashville in November, or home school fair in your area.
Below is the current plan of locations and dates where SMF expects, Lord willing, to have a Scripture Memory booth. At several of these, they will also be running Scripture Memory workshops. If you are interested in giving a quick testimony of the positive impact memverse and/or the Bible Bee has had on your life and/or on your family, please get in touch with Jim Woychuk of SMF
Bible Bee Finals, Nashville, Tennessee, November 17-19, 2011
Spartanburg, South Carolina "Teach Them Diligently" Convention, March 15-17, 2012
Homeschool Fairs in:
- St. Louis, Missouri, March 22-24, 2012
- Memphis, April 12-14, 2012
- Kansas City, April 19-21, 2012
- Cincinnati, Ohio, April 19-21, 2012
- Arlington, Texas, May 11-12, 2012
- Naperville, Illinois, June 7-9, 2012
We will update this list with any new locations or possible cancellations.
When you contact Scripture Memory Fellowship for your reward, you will need to give your name, your age (for those under 18), your Memverse user name, the books you selected, and the address you want the books mailed to. You can learn more about SMF at www.scripturememoryfellowship.org.
Churches and Groups
Scripture Memory Fellowship, SMF, prizes
100,000 Scripture Memory Verses
This summer, I had predicted that we would hit 100,000 verses on September 15th, 2011. Obviously I was wrong. However, I am hardly discouraged as it is so exciting to see so many new people using Memverse and seeing regulars reaching new heights and staying faithful with the Scripture. It is also very inspiring to read all the passion for God's Word on Memverse that stands in sharp contrast to what we often encounter off Memverse.
Our main focus on Memverse is always knowing, loving, worshiping, and serving the true, Living, Biblical God better and better through memorizing, meditating on, and obeying His Word. However, I think there is room in our goal to encourage and inspire each other as we meet different milestones here on Memverse.
So what do you think? When will we hit 100,000? You can make one prediction on the "Original guess" chart. You can also update that guess as many times as you want on the "Latest guess" chart. I will record up to 3 names for each date on each chart. Will you be the first to predict the right date? A big thanks to Julie of scripturestickies.com who is increasing the fun and adding prizes to those who guess the right date. I wonder who will have the honor of memorizing verse #100,000. Please join us in praying for each Memverse user as we memorize and interact with God's Word. Also pray for Andy, Alex, and Emeka as they keep working to improve Memverse.
Exact date you think we will reach 100,000 verses on Memverse?
Original Guess Chart (maximum of 3 guesses on every date)
Any brave September predictions? 25th = Claire; 30th = Laurel
October predictions? 2nd = Clay Dennington; 9th = Hannah del Toro; 11th = Simeon; 12th = Bethany; Joshua Harrell; 13th = Phil Walker; Coretta H; 14th = AmyV; 15th = Laura Hedstrom; 16th = Kaitlyn Vredevoogd; 17th = Alex Watt; 18th = Jonathan Staddon; Matthew Sinclair; 19th = NathanV; Elisabeth Sinclair; 20th = InSoloChristo; Constance Keating; 21st = Josiah K; Rachelle; TigerJohnny; 22nd = Ethan Brown; Hannah 23rd = Josiah DeGraaf; RyanV 24th = Dakota Lynch; Zachary Baas; Sheri; 25th = Matthew Minica; LealChristianm.juat; 26th = Ian R; 27th = Rachel Crosswhite; 28th = Monica Duitsman; Julie; Joanne; 29th = Grace Mieczkowski; Seth Walley; 30th = Sydney Reed; ChiefofSinners; Jamie; 31st = On-Christ-The-Solid-Rock-I-Stand; Christ's Handmaiden
October 21st, 24th, 28th and 30th are full and cannot be joined as a first guess
November predictions? 1st = Darla; Carissa; Nov 2nd = Naomi; Jonah Brown; 3rd = Ben Walley; 4th = SavedbyGrace; 9th = Connie Swaine; 11th = AstroLeah; 12th = Paulina; 17th = BibleBeeJunior11; Nina; 19th = Marie Morris; 21st = Mommy's Helper 22nd = Nikki Brown
December predictions? 5th = Adam Murphy; 11th = Chloe; 24th = Charity; 25th = Jess; 29th = Sarah Stelzl; 31st = 2remember
Latest Guess Chart (maximum of 3 guesses on every date)
Any brave September predictions? 30th = Laurel
October predictions? 2nd = Clay Dennington; 4th = Zachary Baas; 9th = Hannah del Toro; 11th = Simeon; 12th = Joshua Harrell; Laura Hedstrom; 15th = Jamie; 16th = BibleBeeJunior11; 17th = Alex Watt; Matthew Minica; Seth Walley; 18th = Jonathan Staddon; Grace Mieczkowski; Ben Walley; 19th = Carissa; Phil Walker; Sydney Reed; 20th = InSoloChristo; Constance Keating; KaitlynV; 21st = Josiah K; Marie Morris; Bethany 22nd = Ethan Brown; AmyV; SavedByGrace; 23rd = Josiah DeGraaf; AstroLeah; RyanV; 24th = Dakota Lynch; Sheri; Jesus-Paid-It-All; 25th = LealChristianm.juat; ChiefOfSinners; 26th = Ian R; 28th = Monica Duitsman; Julie; Joanne; 31st = On-Christ-The-Solid-Rock-I-Stand; Christ's Handmaiden; Coretta H
October 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 28, 31 are full and cannot be joined unless someone leaves that date.
November predictions? 1st = Darla; 2nd = Naomi; Jonah Brown. 9th = Connie Swaine; 12th = Paulina; 14th = Claire; 17th = Nina; 21st = Mommy's Helper; 22nd = Nikki Brown
December predictions? 5th = Adam Murphy; 11th = Chloe; 24th = Charity; 25th = Jess; 31st = 2remember
A message from Julie:
Hello everyone! I love what you guys are doing here on Memverse as you memorize God's Word and encourage each other. This contest looks like a lot of fun! A few years back, I started a ministry called Scripture Stickies to help people memorize and meditate on God's Word. Scripture Stickies are stickable Bible verses and they are a fun way to help you study verses. They also make great gifts.
I would like to offer some prizes for this contest. To everyone who picks the right date on either the "Original Guess" or "Latest Guess" chart I will give one free Scripture Stickies pack of your choice. In addition, the first person to have picked the right date as their original guess will receive a free 6 month subscription to the "Scripture Stickies of the Month Club". Although I will feel a little bad if I actually win and claim my own prize, I do want to join the fun, so I will predict October 28 as the date Memverse hits 100,000 verses. :)
If you think you have a good prediction, feel free to start looking for your favorite Scripture Stickies pack now on my website, www.scripturestickies.com.
To claim your prize, call me at 1-888-202-4007 or email me at email@example.com or mail me at 405 El Camino Real #434 Menlo Park, CA 94025 with your username and the address you want me to mail your Scripture Stickies to (also tell me which pack you chose and what version of the Bible you prefer). Alternatively, if you will be at the Bible Bee Finals in Nashville – and if 100,000 verses has been reached by then - you can pick up your prize in person at the Scripture Stickies booth.
Thank you and God bless!
Countdown to 100,000:
- ffrash memorized 91,000th verse on September 21
- Angela memorized 92,000th verse on September 24
- Andrea Joy memorized 93,000th verse on September 27
- Stephanie Hills memorized 94,000th verse on September 29
- Grace Mieczkowski memorized 95,000th verse on October 3
- Jessica memorized 96,000th verse on October 6
- Laura memorized 97,000th verse on October 10
- Kaitlyn Vredevoogd memorized 98,000th verse on October 13
- Alex Watt memorized 99,000th verse on October 17
- SavedByGrace memorized 100,000th verse on October 19 at 15:57:42 UTC!
- Phil Walker memorized the 150,000th verse on April , 12, 2012 at 01:28:08 UTC
Bible reading
Even though the main emphasis of Memverse is, and always will be Scripture memory verses; we also want to encourage and inspire all forms of treasuring, taking in, and meditating on Scripture in our pursuit of knowing, loving, praising, and serving the true Biblical God.
After a hectic July with haphazard Bible reading mostly developing a worshipful heart through PSALMS, Jacky and I decided to start August with a disciplined, yet flexible and grace filled daily joint Bible reading goal and plan that we might be able to continue throughout our married life together. God enabling us, we want to read together at least one chapter of the Bible each day. We will read through 5 sections of the Bible. The Old Testament (minus PSALMS and PROVERBS); PSALMS, PROVERBS, the Gospels, ACTS - REVELATION. Rather than be tied down to a certain number of daily chapters, we are using target dates we are aiming for to complete each section. Two days before the end of each month is the target date for reading through one Gospel. Two days before each 4th month is our target date to complete PROVERBS; Two days before the end of each 6th month is our target date to complete PSALMS and to complete ACTS - REVELATION; July 29th each year is our target date to finish the Old Testament.
We plan to supplement our daily devotional reading with periodic longer Scripture reading sessions where we read several chapters from one of the 5 sections.
On this blog we plan to declare our monthly Bible reading as an accountability help for us and, Lord willing, an encouragement to others. We also invite others to likewise share your reading plans or goals and/or declare your weekly or monthly or yearly (or periodic) Bible reading.
This blog can also be used to discuss any specific Scripture you have recently read. Please always feel free to share testimony or insights on the Scripture we declare as reading.
May we always remember that quality time in Scripture and a right heart for God always trumps quantity of chapters read or verses memorized.
I look forward to hearing from you as we encourage and inspire each other.
In Christ, Phil Walker email@example.com
PS If we have interests in others committing to monthly declarations of Bible reading we can set up a friendly monthly "Remember to declare your Bible reading" post on this page or monthly email sent out to those who desire to be included.
Post Bible Bee
On August 27, many of you competed in Local Bible Bees across the United States. On Wednesday, August 31, those of you in the National track learned whether you will be traveling to Nashville for the National competition as a competitor. Today, you're probably either getting ready for a more intense competition or going back to "normal" life. Either way, we want to congratulate you for your diligence in memorizing Scripture! Every hour we spend now establishing a more fervent walk with our gracious God through family discipleship, Scripture memorization, and prayer is of great value and can change the course of our lives and the lives of those around us for God's glory. Paul reminded Timothy in 1 Timothy 4:8 that "physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come." We do not memorize merely for information, but we seek the truth of God's Word because it is a "lamp to our feet and a light for our path," a comfort to our souls, the Sword of the Spirit we need to kill sin in our own lives, and the way to truly knowing Him.
When the Bible Bee competition ends for you, we pray you would find the beginning of a new chapter in your life filled with the grace of God through Scripture memorization and intentional time spent with Him. (Dakota challenges us about how Christians should budget time here.) Consider memorizing a book of the Bible to see how verses and chapters fit together with the larger scope of the book's theme. Some are memorizing 1 Peter to give themselves a fuller understanding of that book which they studied over the summer while preparing for the Bee. This is a great choice. You can check out that project.
We also have been encouraged lately to memorize one of the most amazing books of the Bible: Romans. This book is, to quote from J. I. Packer's Knowing God:
... the high peak of Scripture, however you look at it. Luther called it "the clearest gospel of all." "If a man understands it," wrote Calvin, "he has a sure road opened for him to the understanding of the whole Scripture." Tyndale, in his preface to Romans, linked both thoughts, calling Romans "the principal and most excellent part of the New Testament, and most pure Euangelion, that is to say glad tidings and that we call gospel, and also a light and a way in unto the whole Scripture." All roads in the Bible lead to Romans, and all views afforded by the Bible are seen most clearly from Romans, and when the message of Romans gets into a person's heart there is no telling what may happen.
If this is true, we should seek to understand Romans and memorize it. To see a wonderful calendar for memorizing Romans from September 1, 2011, through December 31, 2012, please choose a file format: PDF or DOC. (Courtesy of the Alexander family - thank you.) At one verse a day, with separate review days built in, you can memorize Romans in just over a year.
Maybe the Bible Bee isn't over for you, and you are preparing for Nationals. If so, we want to help you. Phil Walker has prepared materials to help those studying the additional 100, 200, or 300 verses (depending on your age division: Primary, Junior, or Senior) in the NIV 1984 version. Not only are there documents for each division with the verses printed word-for-word or prompterized like he kindly did for us last time, but there is also a document containing a game you can play. To play the game, you will need to print it out and cut each page into word strips, keeping the strips grouped by passages. Then scramble several (or all, if you're up for a big challenge!) of the passage groups together. By racing against time as you and your friends arrange the verse texts in the correct order, you can learn your verses for Nationals and have a lot of fun. Please see the appropriate links below:
Division | Originals | Prompterized | Game | Study Stack |
Primary | PDF | DOC | PDF | DOC | PDF | DOC | NIV |
Junior | PDF | DOC | PDF | DOC | PDF | DOC | NIV |
Senior | PDF | DOC | PDF | DOC | PDF | DOC | NIV |
If anyone has resources for other Bible Bee versions, please let us know in the comments and we can post them as well. (Phil expects to also have Study Stack sets created for the new verses as well, and we will link to those as they become available. Thanks for putting all this together for us!)
We are also planning to hold a few more Bible Bee Live Quizzes before this marathon is over. We would like to hold at least one with verses you studied for the Local Bee targeted at all Bible Bee participants, regardless of whether you've qualified for Nationals. Please check back sometime next week when we will have more information.
Update 09/05: We have determined dates for six more Bible Bee Live Quizzes. On each of these dates we will hold a quiz (and maybe a re-run of that quiz) starting at 4:00 p.m. EDT — except for November 11, which begins at 4:00 p.m. EST. Please see below and mark your calendars! This post will be updated before each quiz with a link to it. We hope you can attend one or more quizzes. If for any reason we need to cancel a quiz, we will do our best to let you know as soon as possible. The first quiz will contain material from what was studied for the local competition, so as to allow anyone in the Bible Bee to participate (some Primary, Junior, and Senior verses), but after that we will focus on verses for the National qualifiers with some review from earlier material.
Friday, September 9
Friday, September 23
Friday, October 7
Friday, October 21
Friday, November 4
Friday, November 11
Packer, J. I. Knowing God. Downer's Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press, 1973. Print.
Bible Bee, Resources, Quizzes, Romans
Bible Bee Scripture Memory Verses Finalists
ROMANS 12:15 tells us to "Rejoice with those who rejoice..." Here at Memverse we want to do that in congratulating any Memverse members who become Bible Bee Finalists!! Please help me out as we attempt to find and list them all on this blog page. We will also set up a new accountability chart to help encourage anyone who wants to memorize the extra 161/261/361 (including the 61 verses in 2 PETER) verses the Bible Bee Finalists will be memorizing or studying in getting ready for "Nashville in November". All are welcome to join this chart even if you, like me, will not be competing in the November contest. Regarding 2 PETER, you can treat those verses however you want. I would encourage contestants to consider memorizing the entire book to be best ready for the contest. However, you may also declare them as "fully studied but not memorized" and we will still count it on this chart.
May we also be sensitive to Bible Bee participants who did not make the list of finalists. ROMANS 12:15 ends with "... mourn with those who mourn." The obvious truth is that being one of the finalists has little to do with how much God will use His powerful Scripture in your life in the years to come. May we stress this and be gracious in our conversation on this blog.
CONGRATULATIONS to our Memverse Bible Bee Finalists:
Seniors: Christian Alexander, Josiah DeGraaf, Laura Hedstrom, Grace Mieczkowski, Marie Morris, Bethany Pentimone, Alex Watt, Abigail Brigham, Olivia Guillard, Rachel Eaton, Prasanth Venigalla, Nina Camillone, Darcy Arnall, Stephanie Hills, Elizabeth Ledford, Angela McCain, Melody Mieczkowski, Thomas Youngman, Matthew Staley, Seth Walley, Seth Lehman, Elanee Smythe; Virginia Cruser = 23 finalists
Juniors: Nicolas Alexander, Zachary Baas, Hannah Del Toro, Clara Kho, Matthew Minica, Courtney Minica, Carissa Pentimone, Hannah Teeters, Kaitlyn Vredevoogd, Emily Brigham, Ben Watt, Allison Couch, Abigail Sutton, Alethea Leonard, Kerestel Leonard, Monica Duitsman, Hannah Leary; Joshua Bontrager; BonnieLeigh Cruser; Meggie Cruser = 20 finalists
Primary: Kara Buckner; Abigail Lehman = 2 finalists
A through T Primary Accountability Chart. Each declaration = 8 verses.
Felice A B C D
A through T Junior Accountability Chart. Each declaration = 13 verses.
Matthew M TX A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S Thank you and CONGRATULATIONS for completing this chart of 261 verses. You are in Jacky and my daily prayers as you sharpen all 700 verses for Nashville and study 1 and 2 PETER. More than that, we pray that God will speak powerfully in your life as you meditate on His Word and keep and treasure many of these 2011 Bible Bee verses for years to come.
Kaitlyn V MI A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S Thank you and CONGRATULATIONS for completing this chart of 261 verses. You are in Jacky and my daily prayers as you sharpen all 700 verses for Nashville and study 1 and 2 PETER. More than that, we pray that God will speak powerfully in your life as you meditate on His Word and keep and treasure many of these 2011 Bible Bee verses for years to come.
Carissa P MO A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S Thank you and CONGRATULATIONS for completing this chart of 261 verses. You are in Jacky and my daily prayers as you sharpen all 700 verses for Nashville and study 1 and 2 PETER. More than that, we pray that God will speak powerfully in your life as you meditate on His Word and keep and treasure many of these 2011 Bible Bee verses for years to come.
Zachary B MI A B
Alethea L MN A B C
Kerestel L MN A B C D E F G H I J K
Nicolas A OH A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S Thank you and CONGRATULATIONS for completing this chart of 261 verses. You are in Jacky and my daily prayers as you sharpen all 700 verses for Nashville and study 1 and 2 PETER. More than that, we pray that God will speak powerfully in your life as you meditate on His Word and keep and treasure many of these 2011 Bible Bee verses for years to come.
Hannah D VA A B C D E F G
Clara K NC A B C D
Monica D TX A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P
A through T Senior Accountability Chart. Each declaration = 18 verses.
Bethany P MO A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S Thank you and CONGRATULATIONS for completing this chart of 361 verses. You are in Jacky and my daily prayers as you sharpen all 1,100 verses for Nashville and study 1 and 2 PETER. More than that, we pray that God will speak powerfully in your life as you meditate on His Word and keep and treasure many of these 2011 Bible Bee verses for years to come.
Stephanie Hills FL A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S Thank you and CONGRATULATIONS for completing this chart of 361 verses. You are in Jacky and my daily prayers as you sharpen all 1,100 verses for Nashville and study 1 and 2 PETER. More than that, we pray that God will speak powerfully in your life as you meditate on His Word and keep and treasure many of these 2011 Bible Bee verses for years to come.
Josiah D PA A B C D E
Laura H NE A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S Thank you and CONGRATULATIONS for completing this chart of 361 verses. You are in Jacky and my daily prayers as you sharpen all 1,100 verses for Nashville and study 1 and 2 PETER. More than that, we pray that God will speak powerfully in your life as you meditate on His Word and keep and treasure many of these 2011 Bible Bee verses for years to come
Christian A OH A B C D E F G H I J K L M N
Grace M MI A B C D
Alex W PA A B C
Seth W MO A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S Thank you and CONGRATULATIONS for completing this chart of 361 verses. You are in Jacky and my daily prayers as you sharpen all 1,100 verses for Nashville and study 1 and 2 PETER. More than that, we pray that God will speak powerfully in your life as you meditate on His Word and keep and treasure many of these 2011 Bible Bee verses for years to come.
Phil W IDN A B C D E F G H
Scripture Songs for Bible Memory Verses
A great way to learn Bible memory verses is through Scripture songs. This blog is to share with others Scripture songs you write and Scripture songs you find.
My favorite site for free NIV 1984 songs is www.pilgrimsongs.us from Rob and Wendy Jacobson. My favorite songs from the site are "Do you not Know?" (ISAIAH 40:27-31) and "Do not Throw Away your Confidence" (HEBREWS 10:35-39). I also very strongly endorse www.nivkids.com for 2-9 year olds and others who don't mind high quality, catchy kids tunes for memorizing God's awesome Word. You can listen to samples for free and download an album for $1.99
In the KJV, a great site for free downloads is www.heritagemusic.org
We would love to hear from you. What great Scripture songs have you found or written that you can share with us?
Scripture songs, Bible memory, memory verses
Prioritizing Your Schedule
"But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you."
-Matthew 6:33
In these tough economic times, I know I'm not the only one who's realized the need to create a weekly budget to help keep me on track financially. Without a definite course charted out I often find it difficult to stay motivated and am very liable to spend a little bit more money than is appropriate on unnecessary things, such as eating out and texting.
In the same way, it's often necessary for a Christian to budget their time in order to maintain a close relationship with God. If you are regularly missing out on prayer, Bible study and church due to a supposed lack of time, then consider putting your facebook account on hold for a while and reprioritizing your schedule. Put God first and make everything else revolve around His place in your heart.
"And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched."
-Mark 9:43
For some of you, finding time to spend with God might mean setting your alarm 20 minutes early next week and trying to remember where you last had your Bible. For others, you may have to do nothing more than close your web browser after reading this post and go implement what you've just read. Whatever sacrifice you find necessary, just remember that it is no sacrifice to have a relationship with the living God. "So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do." (Luke 17:10)
1,000 Active Users in Memory Verses!!
We are once more approaching 1,000 active users and this time I believe that we, Lord willing, will make it. How exciting when according to the "one church" leaderboard chart we had not even cracked 500 as recently as June 2010. One easy way to tell your friends may be to forward the recent August Memverse newsletter you received to your friends.
To encourage us to pass the 1,000 active user mark I am setting up a "My friend signed up in August" chart. If someone you told about Memverse signs up (or has already signed up) this month, please let us know on this blog. Please also let us know if you are the one who signs up in August and remember who told you about Memverse!
I realize an over emphasis with numbers can be dangerous. It is possible for us to have 1,000,000 active users and not have right hearts before God! Let's not get out of balance. On the other hand, as a math teacher and a coach for 20 years I love numbers and am excited about the motivation we can receive as we see other like minded believers memorizing Scripture with us and dream big God-size dreams of what He might do through His Word and truth in our lives.
August Memverse Inviter Memverse joiners who signed up in August after someone invited them
1) Rachel Crosswhite A) Redwriter B) justbyHisMercy
2) Christian Alexander A) Octavius; B) Rachel; C) Nathan Detwiler;
3) Phil Walker A) Joven06
4) Zachary Baas A) Chloe
5) Bethany (Bible Bee) A) Allison
6) Josiah K A) Shelberlynn
7) vburk A) Deborah Martin
Can we get more than 10 people to help a friend sign up for Memverse this month? At last count, we recovered from our nose dive and set a new record of 994. Many thanks to everyone who spread the word about Memverse at your local competition. It would be very cool to get over 1,000, even if it is only temporarily before we dip again, before we eventually surpass 1,000 for good!! Who will you refer today?
Memory Verses - the Entire Bible?
A group of Memverse members, led by SavedbyGrace, have started a new Scripture memory group committing to memorizing the entire Bible in their lifetime! Wow!! What a great goal and use of the mind and life God has given us. It is exciting to see the impact the National Bible Bee is having on so many young people in the USA. May God's blessings be on the group as you get to know the Living God better and better through His Word and as you commit to keeping these Bible Bee memory verses for the rest of your life and even adding more in your pursuit of memorizing the 31,103 verses in the Bible. I have never met anyone who can quote the entire Bible and will be thrilled to be praying for each member of this group as you proceed.
We at Memverse want to encourage you in any way we can. If you want to join this group, please let SavedbyGrace and his friends know through this blog post. This is also the place to make any comments about memorizing the entire Bible, and/or encourage this group.
SavedbyGrace or others in the group will be editing this page in the near future to give more information.
Those (currently 40) with a goal to memorize the whole Bible in their lifetime:
Me, SavedByGrace; Erika Wenzel; Brooke Nicole; Matthew Minica; Simeon; BibleBeeJunior11; Marie Morris;
Rachel; Angela; Joshua Harrell; God's little child; Josiah DeGraaf; Sarah Stelzl; AndrewBibleBeeJunior11;
Heidi Schreiber; Laurel; Sarah; Rachel Crosswhite; Sara Kenyon; Hannah Teeters; Hanah Lanier; Sarah
Grace Mieczkowski; Michelle; Laura Hedstrom; Arthur Roshkovski; Lee Jinks; China Dennington;
GraceandGlory; Clay Dennington; Charity; Zachary Baas; Sydney Reed; Ashley; JAG3; On Christ the Solid Rock I Stand
Maddie Pickens; Anna Mieczkowski; AstroLeah; blewis18;
Please let us know if we mistakenly list you twice, or if you no longer want to be on this list.
Churches and Groups
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Memory Verses in 1 Peter
Rachel, a committed Memverse member, has started a group of people committing to memorizing 1 PETER. Very cool. I will let her update this page to include information on how the program works. When the Bible Bee local competition is over, it would be neat to set up an accountability chart here for memorizing 1 PETER. It would also be very cool to run a 1 PETER Live quiz or 2 either while we are memorizing or after we are done. There are now 20+ people in the group. If you would like to join us in memorizing 1 PETER with the group, please let us know.
The current group of 38 members =
1 Peter Memorizers
-- Rachel Crosswhite (me); SavedByGrace; Bethany (Bible Bee); Phil Walker; Matthew Minica; Josiah DeGraaf; Marie Morris;
-- Eunice Sophia; BibleBeeJunior11; Ranch4Christ; Rachel; Simeon; Carissa (BB); Alex Watt; Kaitlyn Vredevoogd; RyanV;
-- AmyV; NathanV; vburk; BrookeNicole; Sarah (Bible Bee); Zachary Baas; Sara Kenyon; Hannah Teeters; Emily; Lydia;
-- Sarah Stelzl; Jonathan Staddon; China Dennington; God's Little Child; Clay Dennington; Daniel Dalton; Jo B; Elessar;
-- Alethea Leonard; Kerestel Leonard; Monica Duitsman, Christian A
Please let us know if you no longer want to be listed or if you were listed twice by mistake.
Please be active in praying for members in the group as we take in this exciting book.
We don't want to accountability chart people to death. However, we also want to give an outlet for people who are memorizing 1 PETER. Group leader "Jesus Paid it All" has set Jan 31st, 2012 as a target date to finish, giving time to Bible Bee Finalists to finish after Nashville. However, people are welcome to keep memorizing and declaring after that date. There are 105 verses in this awesome book, so we will make each declaration = 5 verses. We will welcome and post single, double and triple declarations as we understand that some have already been memorizing 1 PETER. We ask you to refrain from declaring more than 15 verses at once, but rather return back for future declarations. Declarations can be made from any parts of 1 PETER since we know some are not starting with 1:1. We would love for you to join us!! Can we, Lord willing, get all 37 on, or better yet to eventually complete this chart?
Sample declarations = John D IL Set A = 1 PETER 4:1-5 = 5 verses; or Frank J NM Set A, B, C = 1 PETER 2:3-17 = 15 verses or my first declaration of Phil W IND Set A,B = 1 PETER 1:13-20; 2:9-10 = 10 verses
1 PETER Accountability/Encouragement chart: Each declaration = 5 verses
Rachel C NC A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U have finished the 1 PETER chart. CONGRATULATIONS! I pray that God will use 1 PETER powerfully in your life for yours to come. Thanks for encouraging all of us with this group!
Nicolas A OH A B C
Kaitlyn V MI A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P
Bethany P MO A B C D E
Emily I NC A B C D E F G
Monica D TX A B C
Amy V MI A B C D E
Simeon B AK A
Carissa P MO A B C D E F G
Eunice S IND A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U have finished the 1 PETER chart. CONGRATULATIONS! I pray that God will use 1 PETER powerfully in your life for yours to come. Great to see India involved with memorizing this wonderful book. I can't wait for God to open the door for me to, Lord willing, one day visit India.
Christian A OH A B C D E F G H I J K L
Jo B UK A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U have finished the 1 PETER chart. CONGRATULATIONS! I pray that God will use 1 PETER powerfully in your life for yours to come. Great to see England involved with memorizing this wonderful book. I pray that more and more people in England will treasure and memorize Scripture and praise God for the historical legacy England has in our Christian faith.
Phil W IDN A B C D E F G H
Churches and Groups
memory verses, group, 1 Peter
Bible Bee Live Quizzes
We plan to continue holding Bible Bee Live Quizzes here on Memverse.com on Fridays at 4 PM EDT. (If for some reason we cannot hold a quiz, we will do our best to let you know as soon as we have that information available.) We are thrilled to have a new feature here that allows you to participate in these quizzes in real time with other Bible Bee participants. It is still a work in progress, but we believe some of the bugs have been worked out since last week's quiz.
If you plan to participate in any of these quizzes, please see this blog post: Preparing for Bible Bee quiz. It has important information about making sure your computer is ready for the quizzes.
During past quizzes, we have always had 15 questions: the first and last five were "give the reference" type questions (which are not part of the Bible Bee per se, but they are from Bible Bee passages and do reinforce the references in your mind), and five questions in the middle for you to "recite" (type) a Bible Bee passage. We have tried to keep these mostly Primary verses, with some Junior.
However, we are now entering the second season of Bible Bee quizzes - this is Week 7 in our studies - with a better quiz system and a need for more review, so the format of the quizzes may change. We plan to include more verses from previous weeks and hopefully more of these can be Primary and Timothy track verses.
On Friday, August 26, 2011, at 4 p.m. EDT, we will hold the Finale Bible Bee Live Quiz - the last one before the Local Competition on Saturday, August 27, held across the United States! Click here to enter that quiz. Bible Bee participants generally start to arrive about 10 minutes before the quiz opens. We hope you can make it and pray that God blesses you as you memorize His Word!
As a double-check to make sure your browser is ready for the quizzes, you could click the link for the last quiz and send a test message in the "Chat" section. If all is well, you should see your message.
Finally, if you experience any technical difficulties before or during the quiz, please let us know with our support forum: http://getsatisfaction.com/Memverse or in the comments below. You can spread the word by giving people the link to this post! We look forward to seeing you and your friends! Thanks.
Managing Your Memorization Schedule
We recently introduced two new features to help you manage your memorization schedule but we have not really explained how they work. The two features are:
Reset Schedule - this is a button that appears on the 'Memverse Today' tab of the home page when you have fallen behind in your memory verse review.
Pending Verses - this allows you to set verses to an 'Inactive' status.
First, there are two definitions that you should understand.
- Target Time - This is an option in your profile menu where you specify how much time you would like to spend memorizing each day.
- Required Time - This is the time that Memverse calculates you need to spend each day to not fall behind on the memory verses you are currently working on.
The 'target time' has only two functions at the moment:
- to determine when to convert verses from 'Pending' to 'Active' (if you have checked the box on the profile page that allows Memverse to automatically convert verses from 'Pending' to 'Active' status when your required time is below your target time.)
- to determine whether new verses start as 'Pending' or 'Active' when you add them.
The 'required time' is used in determining whether your verses are 'Active' or 'Pending' as outlined above.
It is also used to determine when to give you the option to reset your schedule. The 'Reset Schedule' button will appear when the number of verses you have due on any given day is more than 3x your 'required time'. For example, if your current required time is 10 minutes per day but you have 35 verses due for review that day, you can reset your schedule. Memverse will reschedule the verses into the future in such a way that you will have about double your required time for the next while.
If you are finding that you have too many verses to review each day but you are never seeing the 'Reset Schedule' button, then it's because you quite simply have too many active verses and you should convert some of them to 'Pending'. Take a look at the required time that Memverse thinks you need. If you don't think you can allocate that amount of time each day to memorization, you should reduce the number of verses you're working on.
Recommended settings
We recommend that you use the following settings:
- repetition interval = 1 year
- target time = about 3/4 of what you think you can manage each day (this allows for the occasional missed day)
- 1st letter prompts = 'Learning' or 'Never' (these are a big crutch and you won't really remember verses unless you stop using them)
- 'Always show feedback' should be unchecked. (this is also a big crutch and you're unlikely to become fluent in your verses if you always use it)
- 'Add verses as needed' - this is up to you. It's useful to have it checked because then you don't need to worry about converting verses from 'Pending' to 'Active'
Those settings above will work well if you're planning a long term memorization program as you will be less likely to get overwhelmed and you will really start to memorize the verses properly. With these settings, if you go away on vacation for a few days or take a break, you can then reset your schedule when you return and you will soon be back on track. I can't emphasize enough the importance of keeping your work load manageable. This is a marathon not a 100m sprint :)
These probably aren't the best settings for those of you who are working towards the Bible Bee competition but you can share your settings in the comments below.
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October 11, 2017 at 8:29 am #28593Michael NickolasParticipant
ASCAP email says that youtube settlement payment is the first of two. Should be another one paid in the March/April 2018 distributions.
February 12, 2018 at 10:16 am #29479David RockowerGuestI'm in the middle of the quarter that I would be able to terminate my contract with ascap. I have seen over 600 cue sheets in ascap, and have been an extremely active writer for 3 years. I am barely seeing more per quarter than if I were playing brown eyed girl at a bar on the weekend. Transferring all of my work over to a new pro would be a nightmare considering all the places I have it, so I am probably just going to move forward. I have untill the end of march to decide. I have been lucky to have a fella at the nashville office dig through my catalog and try and find errors, but I gotta say, it seems like since day 1 this whole library writing thing has been severely error prone, and possibly not worth the time.
I've seen episodes show up from SOCAN almost every quarter that still havent shown up in the states. I even had the show "Just Jillian" show up with one of my cues in canada, I called ascap 6 months later, and they said they have been paying on the episode, yet somehow my cue isn't listed? I feel like everywhere I turn, someone is dropping the ball… except me? I make all my deadlines…. why is no one else?
Should I switch? Is it possible this ascap rep will uncover errors that have prevented me from seeing a substantial paycheck? Should I move my catalog? Its all on TV. What would be involved with that? Will the new legislation, and talks of merging databases make a move not worthwhile?
February 12, 2018 at 4:21 pm #29482Music1234Participant@ David, 10 years since my first upload to a music library that feeds tv shows, I now have 3000 cues sheets. 5 times what you have and NO, I STILL could not make a living from just that back end PRO money!
I am not sure getting upset and switching PRO's is the answer to your woes. I see data from all 3 as writer and publisher.
Patience and consistency and quality music is the only answer. More importantly, diversification into different distribution channels that enable multiple revenue streams for your music. Not one "exclusive" distributor. The exclusive representation model will lead you into no man's land, frustration, despair, and not wealthy enough to justify making cues for a living!
Your music needs to be "out there" working for YOU and only YOU….Not the greedy publisher trying to build up his exclusive catalog to sell to Universal Music Group so he can go and retire a rich man. OWNERSHIP OWNERSHIP OWNERSHIP, OWN your music asetts. CONTROL your music assets. You won't regret it.
February 12, 2018 at 6:50 pm #29483BEATSLINGERParticipantBeing as transparent as possible. David, I actually think you might be wise to search for "greener pastures". I hear a LOT from fellow composer friends that they are having a MUCH better life after ASCAP. As well, ASCAP really IS behind the times, and seems to work better from a PRO stand-point when it comes to "records".
1) Maybe you might want to think about switching. Will take a couple of years to really see it going, But, there are better PRO's for production music.
2) Perhaps, start checking into "admin deals"..February 12, 2018 at 10:52 pm #29484LAwriterParticipantI sent a reply Art. It was short (a paragraph or so) and no profanity. Of course, I didn't save it before hitting submit. Maybe it's still sitting in the ether and you can post it back up. Thanks.
February 13, 2018 at 5:27 am #29485Music1234Participant@David, I forgot to ask…are you on 600 "Series" or 600 "Episodes"?
February 13, 2018 at 8:13 am #29486LAwriterParticipantPatience and consistency and quality music is the only answer. More importantly, diversification into different distribution channels that enable multiple revenue streams for your music. Not one "exclusive" distributor.
I think this cannot be over-emphasized….So I quoted it. 🙂
I have no idea how many cue sheets I have. BMI doesn't work that way. I mean, they use cue sheets of course, but to my knowledge, they are not made public where a writer can see and count them. If they are available for me to see, then I'm an idiot cause I don't know about it and haven't ever seen them. Haha!
I can tell you that I'm on way, way over 2000 episodes of episodic TV and films. Most episodes have multiple pieces of my music in them. On average 3-6, often over 10 per episode. I could live on my BMI back end if I pinched pennies. I don't like pinching pennies though, so I am looking to different avenues for income. BMI is playing games with my income and I don't like it one bit. I also believe that the back end model of royalty income for composers is waning. We've had that discussion elsewhere.
I'm quite unhappy with BMI for a variety of reasons and looking to change out when I have the opportunity. With my number of titles in the mid-5 figures it won't be easy – and it won't be to ASCAP either….
February 13, 2018 at 9:07 am #29487Art MunsonKeymasterI sent a reply Art. It was short (a paragraph or so) and no profanity.
Sorry LAwriter. Don't see one there but see the one this morning. I made some changes last weekend that I thought would fix this intermittent problem but sadly no. 🙁
February 13, 2018 at 9:21 am #29488LAwriterParticipantNo worries Art. Appreciate the ongoing efforts to figure out the weirdness. Cheers, LAw
February 13, 2018 at 8:07 pm #29491Music1234ParticipantWith BMI I now get this garbage when I click on "works catalog".
"This catalog is too large to display. Please enter your search criteria."
Everyone wants to beach and moan about their PRO's…I have logins in all 3. In all honesty, ASCAP IS the most impressive in terms of what I can see.
1. I want to see my titles! Every single one of them. I don't care if there are 2 milllion of them, I want to scroll through all of them when I click on "my Catalog". @BMI…Why are you becoming less transparent? I don't even know what is going on especially when you have catalogs/ publishers on steroids desperately retitling songs 3 or 4 times to make all their clients "publishers". When is this BS practice going to end SK? Why is the client now the publisher. Weak handed and paranoid publishers should just close up shop and go find a new job. Giving away your blood sweat and tears to the client is NOT THE ANSWER. Bribery and kickbacks are illegal are they not?
2. I want to see cue sheets for EVERY show. I see them all at ASCAP, I do not see cue sheets at SESAC or BMI. At those PRO's, I wait for statements to see the action. This is not good enough in an era of Big Data.
SESAC and BMI need to display the cue sheets when their members have cues on filed cue sheets. If that web development is too laborious, then hire some freak from google to manage your big data dilemma. It is 2018 after all. If ASCAP can show our cue sheets, so can you. What do you have to hide anyway?
3. I like 8 checks a year from ASCAP. I get 4 form the other two. I like the separation of "Domestic" (USA) royalties and "international" Royalties when it comes to statements.
None of the PROS are really taking streaming or on line music streams very seriously. It seems like they all said 'Well let's throw these writers a penny for each title, each statement…we just don't know how to deal with "streams" so let's go ahead and pay these folks $0.01 cent per title that may appear "somewhere" on the internet….What a Joke!
The "which PRO is better debate" is really getting old and boring. All I can say is this, if you have a knack for landing a lot of Prime Time TV spots with Big Brands airing nationally in the USA….definitely get in bed with SESAC. They really pay a lot more for TV commercials. Not sure why, but they do. On the flip side…I sometimes feel like they (SESAC) pay WAY LESS for background TV cues on TV shows. At BMI and SESAC, there are no cue sheets displayed (Archived for viewing) in my account, so I don't know what is going on in TV show land.
That's all I have for now…
February 13, 2018 at 8:41 pm #29492BEATSLINGERParticipantJust a quick bit on SESAC
I opted for monthly payments..
As well, I can reach "My Rep anytime" and can retrieve any data/sheets/information I need..
As well, Universal/UPPM, Olé Music, and several others are now using SESAC as their primary PRO..
Not making a pitch for them. Just stating facts..
February 13, 2018 at 8:54 pm #29493Music1234ParticipantI like them all. Just keep sending that green money to my bank account and I'm happy.
SESAC is "FOR PROFIT" and that is a good thing. I do not want to email my rep to ask for cue sheets. Just up-date that buggy SESAC site and show the darn cue sheets (as ASCAP does).Beatslinger, tell your "rep (here to make you smile) at any time" guy/ gal to display all cue sheets for every writer and publisher at all times.
Why do we have to send an e-mail asking "Hey baby cakes, can you hook me up wityh some data, like cue sheets?' That is ridiculously annoying. Just Big Data them out so we can all see what is happening with our music!
February 13, 2018 at 10:06 pm #29494Art MunsonKeymasterWith BMI I now get this garbage when I click on "works catalog".
"This catalog is too large to display. Please enter your search criteria."
Yeah, a pain. That's been happening to me for a few years now. You would think in this day and age they would have it more together.
February 14, 2018 at 8:34 am #29498composerParticipantWith BMI I now get this garbage when I click on "works catalog".
"This catalog is too large to display. Please enter your search criteria."
Oddly enough, you can still see your entire catalog without logging in to your account by using the "search BMI repertoire" function and entering your name as songwriter/composer.
February 14, 2018 at 2:27 pm #29510LAwriterParticipant^^^^ Yes, this is how I do it. No problem in seeing 30,000+ titles, although the scrolling through to find something is beyond tedious. BMI is a decade behind normal computer science and coding. I think they LIKE it that way though. Less accountability. Still, a major pain.
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A few of the 34 questions here posed to the Christian(s) and answered. . . with hyperjump links to each answer. . . |
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2:7-12). This tells us clearly that there has been a lawless power at work
through the ages, and that toward the end of the age when people "have
pleasure in unrighteousness," the restrainer who is the Holy Spirit will
restrain only until the believers are taken away. On the back-inside-flap of the paper jacket for my copy of World Aflame, we find these words: Rev. Dr. Billy Graham continued to support this view of the Holy Scripture that is John's Revelation in later years, as he continued writing other books like his Til Armageddon (1981), and Approaching Hoofbeats: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1983), and Storm Warning (1992). Well, it didn't happen before the end of the 20th century, but it did finally happen in 2008, when Dr. Graham's economic prediction finally caught up with us. In Storm Warning, Dr. Billy Graham also writes these words concerning the Tribulation period of our world's history:
Like myself, Dr. Billy Graham started out life as a Presbyterian, but as a young man he later switched to the Baptist denomination and became a Southern Baptist, even though his wife Ruth remained a Presbyterian until the day she died. I made that transition from Presbyterian to Southern Baptist myself, and one of the main reasons for my own switch is the fact that I thought the Presbyterian theology had gotten too liberal, especially in the matter of eschatology (the doctrine of future things). The Presbyterian pastors of the US, you see, as well as their Sunday School teachers, are usually inclined to insist that John's Revelation is "not prophecy of the future," that it is only "apocalyptic literature," and that "the Beast" of Revelation is only a reference to the long-dead Roman emperor Nero. While in France, Jefferson endeavored to propose a naval alliance with European nations that would specifically oppose the Muslim Barbary pirates who were likewise raiding & enslaving European vessels in the Mediterranean Sea, but he was unsuccessful in his attempt to establish an international alliance against the Muslim terrorists of the northern Africa coast. Federer's American Minute message for Feb. 16 states that... Thomas Jefferson even went so far as to obtain a Muslim holy-book, but only in order to study it, so that he might better understand these enemies of the US. He hoped that through a study of the enemy's mind, he might better understand the nature of the threat of Islam and the religious fanaticism of the terrorizing "Barbary Pirates." From former US president John Quincy Adams, in essays written prior to 1830, come the following quotes concerning Muslim terrorism, the threat of Islamic imperialism, and the unending conflict between Islam and Western Christian culture: U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt was born in 1858, and became our youngest-ever president in 1901. Theodore Roosevelt also saw the danger of Islamic imperialism to Western civilization and Christendom. In his 1916 book Fear God And Take Your Part, Theodore Roosevelt wrote: Earlier, in 1909, Theodore Roosevelt also warned the United States that: The above warning of former US president "Teddy" Roosevelt seems quite prescient as I type up this material in Jan. 2009, with Muslim Pakistan already possessing nuclear weaponry and the genocidal Muslim madmen of Iran merely days away from achieving the same status. "The thought of industry in the hands of paganism is a nightmare beyond imagining" indeed, but this is the reality that is now upon us! U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt also wrote in his 1916 book Fear God And Take Your Part that: The quotations from U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt found above are ones I discovered through William J. Federer and his daily American Minute e-mails service. Go there to join up for his great daily e-mails. He's also the author of three great books entitled America's God And Country: Encyclopedia Of Quotations, What Every American Should Know About The Qur'an, and Backfired: A Nation Born For Religious Tolerance No Longer Tolerates Religion. The words above are taken from Winston Churchill's book The River War, first edition, Vol. II, passages on pages 248-50 (London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1899). You will notice that Winston Churchill there mentions the rise of Islam in Central Africa, and it is also worth noting here that imperialistic Muslim armies in various countries of Africa have recently massacred many communities of African Christians even in the last two decades. |
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In Detroit, more than 8,000 people have had their water shut off. There could be tens of thousands more shut-offs to come. The Detroit Water and Sewage Department is cracking down to collect some $90 million owed by water customers. Critics of the policy say it's indiscriminate with no exceptions for the sick, elderly or poor, in a city with a poverty rate of 38 percent. Steve Pardo has been covering the story for the Detroit News, and he joins me now. And, Steve, this number is pretty staggering. Fully half of the city's water accounts are overdue.
STEVE PARDO: It is. It is. And I think that's been a problem with DWSD is that they've allowed these accounts to be overdue for a long time, and that's why now we're at a - of almost a 50 percent noncompliance rate here in the city.
BLOCK: Well, how late do you have to be in paying your water bill to get a shut-off notice?
PARDO: Well, they're cracking down now where it's two months late or $150, which is - it's about $75 a month is your average Detroiter's water bill.
BLOCK: And when you talk with some of the people who have had their water shut off, what stories are you hearing?
PARDO: Well, they just didn't have the money. They're just outraged that it happened. They didn't know they were going to do it so quickly - just the stories of surprise really.
BLOCK: We should say that of these 8,000 people who've had their water shut off, I'm assuming a good percentage of those have paid their bills and their water has been restored?
PARDO: They do. They get it back pretty quickly, and DWSD is quick to point that out. And they've also got about 17,000 of Detroit customers enrolled in a payment plan which is - what they're really telling people to do is to call them or contact them to make sure you can at least be paying something or at least get on - involved in these plans that they have.
BLOCK: Well, the department has come under a fair amount of criticism for this policy that appears heartless and discriminate as we said. How have they responded to that?
PARDO: Well, they're sticking to their guns pretty well with this saying, we know there's people out there who can't pay their bills, but we think there are a lot more who are simply choosing to not pay their bills, which is why they want them to come in and get on these payment plans. They're getting a lot of support in that way from the suburbs. There's always been a big - a big fight between the suburban customers and Detroit customers.
BLOCK: In terms of?
PARDO: In terms of rates and of water. I mean, the people - when the suburbanites see these stories that a lot of the Detroiters aren't paying their bills, they seem to be very little sympathy for them.
BLOCK: Has there been a lot of criticism, Steve, of the department itself for letting this get to be such a problem, for not taking this on sooner?
PARDO: Yeah, a lot of human rights groups have spoken out. Even - in fact - even the United Nations has come out with a statement on this thing that it's, you know - disconnection of the water service because of failure to pay is a violation of the human rights process. But there's the problem there - even the U.N. continued to say that the disconnections 'cause of nonpayments should only be possible if it's shown that the resident is choosing not to pay, instead of being unable to pay. And that's the challenge that the department has, is figuring out who can pay and who simply cannot.
BLOCK: Steve, there's some controversy, too, just about how water rates are set in Detroit. Why don't you explain how that works?
PARDO: Yeah, water rates are set - the department comes up with a number that it needs to operate its system, and then it sets rates accordingly. So they've been going up basically every year. It's an old system. It needs constant upgrades. But when they don't get the numbers that they need, their only option is to further raise the rates. The planned rate increase for this year in the city of Detroit was about 4.6 percent. But it ended up being about 8.7 percent because the department said that was mainly because of noncompliance of payments.
BLOCK: So the people who are paying their bills are going to be even more outraged because they're covering the cost for those who aren't.
PARDO: That's precisely right. They'll - the Detroit rates don't affect suburban rates, but all the Detroiters who are paying their water bills are also paying for those who are not.
BLOCK: Steve Pardo, thanks for talking with us.
PARDO: Thanks for having me.
BLOCK: Steve Pardo is a reporter with the Detroit News.
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Anthony Kaldellis, The Christian Parthenon: Classicism and Pilgrimage in Byzantine Athens. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xiv, 252; ills. 26 b/w, 2 maps. ISBN 978-0-521-88228-6. $99.00.
Reviewed by Nassos Papalexandrou, The University of Texas at Austin
[The reviewer apologizes to the author and readers of BMCR for the belatedness of this review.]
A monographic study of the Christian Parthenon is long overdue. It is ironic that Kaldellis' bold and provocative book was published simultaneously with the pompous inauguration of the New Acropolis Museum at Athens, a cultural institution that decisively concretizes the Parthenon as the great masterpiece of Classical Antiquity. Kaldellis is a byzantinist who takes issue with this monolithic and fictional construction of the Parthenon in both popular and scholarly imagination since the eighteenth century. His argument is that the perceptual filters of Classicism, distorting, disorienting, and culturally contingent as they have always been, have diverted attention from the illustrious career of the monument as a Christian church. Consequently he sets out to rehabilitate the monument in its former, hitherto neglected glory as a pilgrimage site of universal appeal and as a focus of attention, cult, and intellectual preoccupation that have no match in Classical antiquity. He does so with expository verve and an often polemical tone that militates against the prevalent neglect and misunderstanding of the rich intellectual heritage of Medieval Hellenism. It is time we discovered the riches and complexity of post-antique Hellenism, Kaldellis argues. His book provides a paradigm for how to go about this, especially how to formulate questions and methods of approach that defy the suspicious assumption that Hellenism after antiquity was orientally decadent, derivative, and second-rate. It is no accident that this revisionist project has to start with the Parthenon. At once a blessing and a curse, this tyrant of a monument has to be deconstructed along with all the ideologies it has come to epitomize in Western civilization. The undertaking is daunting, but Kaldellis's book shows that it is well worth the effort.
Kaldellis draws mainly from textual sources such as hagiography, epistolary documents, and homiletic texts--often fragmentary and obscure remnants of a much richer archive that several layers of catastrophes and reversals have condemned to oblivion.1 He has also made judicious usage of archaeological evidence that sheds light on various aspects of the history of the Parthenon from Late Antiquity until the beginning of the Frankish occupation of Athens. Given that the history of the Parthenon is inextricable from that of the surrounding city, this book is also a valuable contribution to the medieval history of Athens, even as a wealth of archaeological information still awaits publication (e.g. the Byzantine layers of occupation in the Athenian Agora area). It is noteworthy for its decisive effort to shake the established conception of Athens as a sluggish cultural backwater at the margins of the Eastern Roman empire. On the contrary, Kaldellis argues, local memory, the very radiance of the Parthenon, and the landscape of the city itself were conducive to the creation of uniquely local attitudes in which the Classical past was carefully re-inscribed in the framework of a Christian universe. Fraught with conceptual antinomies, constant tensions, and contradictions, this re-inscription forms the backbone of Kaldellis' project--it is also the crux of a cultural debate that continues uninterrupted to this day.2
Kaldellis unfurls his analysis of the Christian Parthenon with a provocative argument. He seems to think that in the Middle Ages the Parthenon/church was much more significant to many more people than it had ever been at any single moment in antiquity. In the last two hundred years or so, Kaldellis argues, scholars and others have carved a completely false image of the importance of the Parthenon in antiquity. Instead, he claims, "...the Parthenon, as a church, was more important than it had been as a temple. It was only in Byzantium that Athens was often identified with its cathedral; that people came from all around for the sole purpose of worshiping there; that the Parthenon eclipsed all other monumental sights in the city (of which there were still many); and that many described the building in superlative and miraculous language" (18). He juxtaposes the Parthenon/temple to the Parthenon/church. The former he sees as an essentially hegemonic monument with restricted appeal and intellectual or even aesthetic consequence. The latter, on the other hand, emerges in Kaldellis' analysis as the focus of international pilgrimage, imbued with the transcendental grace and attractiveness of the Theotokos, its new Parthenos, and the subliminal impact of the antique and classical. It was the ideology of Classicism, Kaldellis claims, that placed the Parthenon at the pinnacle of European civilization in order to assert this civilization's cultural, political, and intellectual superiority in the history of humanity. Kaldellis finds no evidence that the Parthenon really enjoyed a commensurate centrality in ancient thought and life. It was not exceptional. Instead, Kaldellis sees it as marginal, at best debatable, a monument that never became a universal symbol or point of reference as it did in Byzantium. But precisely because Byzantium was Christian Orthodox, "oriental", and metaphysically oriented according to Kaldellis, it fell by default outside this cultural economy of classicing Eurocentrism. As a result, the Christian universality of the Parthenon and its aesthetic valorization and appreciation in the medieval period remained obscure and subject to a long chain of Orientalist prejudices.
Productive though this critical framework may be, it is not without some problems. As Kaldellis rightly argues, the post-Enlightment Parthenon is indeed both a literal and metaphoric construct. On the other hand, Kaldellis is all too quick to dismiss a wealth of non-textual evidence that points decisively to the range and intensity of the monument's impact and valorization in antiquity. This evidence is as vast as it is often elusive and still not properly studied, precisely because until very recently the analysis of the Parthenon (and the Classical phenomenon) was premised on its capacity to embody a great number of essential, ahistorical, and universal forces and values. Moreover, Kaldellis's retrojective projection of pilgrimage as a qualifying criterion for the monument's significance in antiquity is no less guilty of anachronism as it is dangerous and misleading (see. esp. p. 14). Would anyone claim that the monument is more important in modernity because it receives hundreds of thousands of visitors from all over the world?
On the basis of this foundational background, Kaldellis proceeds to unravel the hitherto neglected history of the Christian Parthenon. This is a veritable rehabilitation project and Kaldellis has done it very well. The story he tells ends up with the arrival of the Franks in Athens in 1204. The post-antique career of the Parthenon starts at the moment of its conversion into a Christian church. The evidence is scant but the fact, Kaldellis warns us, that a great deal of its sculptural decoration did survive should deflect attention from the usual imagery of Christian fanatics defacing the east, north, and west metopes (incidentally a cause of bad blood between the Greek Orthodox church and the museum administration in the wake of the inauguration of the New Acropolis Museum). Instead Kaldellis admonishes his readers to ask "...how did Byzantine worshipers and pilgrims to the Christian Parthenon perceive [the surviving sculptures on the Parthenon such as those of the West pediment]?" (42). Kaldellis carefully speculates that in a city that witnessed generations of classically educated Christians a middle ground was possible: preservation, or even appreciation of the blatantly pagan apparatus of the Parthenon was not impossible in the cultural milieu of late antique Athens. In the subsequent centuries Kaldellis unearths a wealth of evidence that conclusively shows that antiquity constantly provided a lively framework for the articulation of Athenian identity.
For the following few centuries Kaldellis painstakingly analyses a number of obscure and secondary sources (e.g. vitae of saints) in order to argue that the Parthenon gradually emerged as a pilgrimage site between the seventh and tenth centuries. The sources are very problematic and Kaldellis struggles to squeeze reliable information from them regarding pilgrims and patterns of pilgrimage traffic to Athens. His results, albeit impressionistic, are convincing but one is left with even more questions. There is no evidence whatsoever about the Athenian profile of the Theotokos and the new landscape of sacredness in which she and the pagan relic of the Parthenon came to dominate. One wonders, for example, about the symbiotic relationship of the Parthenon/church with the good number of Christian establishments on top of or around the rock of the Acropolis (e.g. the Asklepieion, interestingly enough dedicated to the healing Saints Kosmas and Damianos) and surrounding areas. Despite Kaldellis' effort to stress the Parthenon/church's singularity as a focus of pilgrimage, the Leonides basilica and adjacent martyrion near the Ilissos river must have been equally important and attractive sites; one suspects that the Parthenon/church existed in a socially complicated and perhaps multilayered network of movement toward sacred sites. Kaldellis is in more secure ground, nevertheless, when he turns to the extraordinary corpus of the Christian inscriptions on the Parthenon. Numerous prayers, epitaphs of prominent ecclesiastics, and names of laymen started being inscribed on the monument ca. 600, thus attesting to (but also shaping) the building's centrality in Athenian cultic life for several centuries. It may well be, Kaldellis hypothesizes, that "the insistence of the Parthenon inscriptions on personal names has more in common with ancient habits than with those of Christians in late antiquity" (79). No matter how we interpret this epigraphic habit, it rendered the Parthenon an unparalleled repository of memory and entreaty.
The life of the Parthenon/church emerges in much sharper relief from ca 1100 onward. Kaldellis makes good use of an ecclesiastical register of properties (πράκτικον) in order to reconstruct the topography of the city at the beginning of the twelfth century. This was a period of prosperity for Athens, one which witnessed the establishment of a good number of churches--the humbly sumptuous and elegant specimens of an Athenian school of architecture that seem to have rivaled in subtle, yet distinct, ways the grandiose creations of Constantinople. Kaldellis bypasses these important monuments, and this is rather awkward because they still set the backdrop of normalcy against which the Parthenon enjoyed its unique and formidable status as home to the Theotokos (now crystallized as "Athenaïs" or "Atheniotissa"), her cathedral, and a pilgrimage center of universal fame and appeal. Constantinople also was the spiritual home of many pious ecclesiastic leaders who arrived in Athens armed with metropolitan snobbery and a very sophisticated apparatus of classical scholarship, only to find the harsh reality of ruins and a glory long gone. Some of them found solace in experiencing the Parthenon/church as a material affirmation of Christian triumph while others, e.g. the wise but tragically misplaced Metropolitan Michael Choniates or Akominatos, escaped to the irresistible magnetism of its classical aura and finesse. It is this idiosyncratic character of the building, Kaldellis argues, that accounts for the exceptionality of the Atheniotissa, her popularity and attractiveness, her fame and universal appeal. The ancient building was "...not merely the flagship of the Theotokos cult but the very reason for its existence" (144). He sees the very materiality of the Parthenon as the indispensable, yet at the same time unattestable, precondition for the success and pervasiveness of the cult of the Atheniotissa. The argument is convincing despite the reticence of the relevant sources as to what precisely the medieval worshipers appreciated on the Parthenon. Kaldellis leaves no stone unturned to reconstruct the building's exterior and interior ambiance at a time when ecclesiastical buildings came to encapsulate the Christian universe in both their form and decoration. To what extent and how could this superb relic fit in the established theological symbolism of Eastern Roman empires' world order?
It was in this period that a new apse was constructed and along with it a mosaic of the Theotokos (Kaldellis emphasizes that the process involved the careful dismantling of the frieze block with "peplos scene"). This new feature punctuated what must have been a truly bizarre interior. More importantly, the twelfth century witnessed the association of a frequently attested, yet frustratingly elusive, miraculous and ever-burning light with a "photocentric" conception of the Theotokos Atheniotissa--a well conceived attempt to enhance the cathedral's mystical aura. Interestingly enough Kaldellis hypothesizes that this may have been inspired by the ever-burning lamp by Kallimachos at the Erechtheion. This is possible in a climate of intense preoccupation and latent dialogues of both Athenians and outsiders with the classical past of Athens. On the other hand, one can not help thinking that this preoccupation with light is curiously concurrent with the important spiritual underpinnings of Abbot Suger of Saint-Denis (falsely identified with Dionysius the Areopagite in the Mediaeval period) regarding light and its transcendental qualities. Could this be pure coincidence only?
Kaldellis' fascinating story of the Christian Parthenon ends grimly in 1204. The subsequent history of the Parthenon and Athens paints a very black canvas and largely accounts for the irretrievable loss of evidence regarding the period covered in this book. It is only to be hoped that others will follow Kaldellis' lead to unravel the life of the monument as a Latin Cathedral and later on as an impressive mosque. Kaldellis has done a superb job illuminating the vitality and complexity of attitudes toward the Parthenon in the Middle Ages. The book should be read carefully not only by Medievalists but also by Classical scholars who can no longer claim to be the primal stake holders in the preservation and study of the Parthenon phenomenon.
1. It is unfortunate that numerous textual sources appear only in translation. Kaldellis is obviously a keen philologist and his translations read smoothly. However, the very nature of the analysis warrants checking the original texts, if only because their very style and diction are part and parcel of the complex and misunderstood phenomena Kaldellis tries to illuminate in this book.
2. The intellectual origins of this book are to be sought in Kaldellis's monograph Hellenism in Byzantium: The Transformation of Greek Identity and the Reception of the Classical Tradition (Cambridge, 2007).


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When the biggest United Nations (U.N.) climate change talks of the year, COP18, get underway in Doha, the capital of Qatar, this week, it will be the first time that the meeting has been hosted by a Middle Eastern country.
As such, the talks provide the perfect opportunity for the countries in the region to prove that they have started to take climate change seriously. The best way to start proving that is to first pledge targets to reduce their carbon emissions.
The Middle East has been through a lot of change lately, but the region is often eerily quiet on climate change, not to mention that some countries of the region have been considered "obstructionist" in the process. This has been making a lot of countries coming to the negotiations very nervous.
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The U.N. climate summit offers the opportunity for the "obstructionist" reputation to change, if the Arab communities play it right. Putting forward pledges to the international community is one step that countries of the region can take in the right direction, but also regional civil society should start a strong Arab climate movement.
Read: Greenhouse gases reach record highs
This has already started, and one only needs to look at the launch of the Arab Youth Climate Movement in a dozen countries earlier this month to see that the region's young citizens, who were so instrumental in the Arab Spring, are calling for their leaders to step up when it comes to the biggest environmental problem facing the Middle East and North Africa.
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Agreeing to this peak will also mean that countries which have been big polluters historically, like the U.S., Canada, Europe, Japan and Australia, will have to increase their commitments on carbon emission reductions. The Kyoto Protocol is currently our only binding climate deal and it is up for renewal here at Doha. This should happen only after closing all the gaps that make this Protocol weaker.
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While all this might seem difficult to achieve, failing to make progress at Doha would constitute a huge cost to society. A peer reviewed report, called "Beyond dangerous climate change: emission scenarios for a new world," written by Kevin Anderson and Alice Bows in 2011, pointed out that there is a widespread understanding among scientists that an increase of four degrees Celsius in global temperatures is incompatible with an organized global community.
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Newly reelected President Obama called for climate action in his victory speech and China's new leader Xi Jiping called for a "better environment" in his acceptance. Civil society is expecting these leaders to stand up where it matters — inside the negotiating rooms of the U.N. climate talks and push toward a fair, ambitious and binding deal that will preserve the future of the planet for generations to come.