LIVE BY THE BOOK Howard Hendricks one of the greatest Bible teacher related that early in his life, a Sunday school teacher had given him a Bible. Inside the front cover was written the following note. “This Book will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from this book.” When I was about ten years of age, my mother started me on a scripture memory program. She recommended an entire chapter of the Bible! The one she started me on was not an ordinary chapter by any means. I learnt later that it was the longest chapter of the Bible! It contained 176 verses, each arranged in a series of eight verses. For each eight verses I memorized, I would earn a dime. Early in my scripture memory program, I came across this verse in Psalm 119:11. “Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.” Th...
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