Hide This in Your Heart: Memorizing Scripture for Kingdom Impact

by Michael Frost, Graham Joseph Hill, Ross Kennedy (Narrator)

Memorizing Scripture has been proven to be an essential, life-giving practice for spiritual growth. Those who memorize passages from the Bible can point to how it’s given them greater assurance of God’s love and a deeper understanding of how to follow Jesus.

In this new resource by two leaders of the worldwide missional church movement, Scripture memorization is put to new use, helping believers in Jesus to become active partners in proclaiming and demonstrating that the Kingdom of God is living and active and good for the world.

Join Michael Frost and Graham Hill on this journey into the Bible. Learn how your brain can be formed and transformed by the Scriptures, and find yourself better equipped to live and declare the good news of Jesus Christ.

Genres: Christian

Audible Audio

Published October 28, 2020

About the author

Michael Frost is the founding director of the Tinsley Institute at Morling College. He is an internationally recognised Australian missiologist and one of the leading voices in the missional church movement. His books are required reading in colleges and seminaries around the world and he is much sought after as an international conference speaker. Michael Frost blogs at mikefrost.net

See also other Michael Frosts.

Reviews

[Jaclyn Nguyen · Rating 4 out of 5]

I differ from the authors on a few things theologically, however I appreciated their zeal to memorize scripture with a kingdom expansion/missional focus instead of memorizing passages that only contain content that is focused on one’s individual faith. I will be striving to put to memory some of the passages they highlighted in their memorization plan.

[Ezechel · Rating 4 out of 5]

They brought scripture memorization up to date for me.

I memorized dozens of verses back in the days, and I still remember most of them. It's not like I decided along the way it was uncool or unnecessary to memorize scripture, but somehow as my understanding of God and his mission was maturing, my memorized verses were not keeping up with the new ideas, and they were still stuck in Sunday school and the Romans road to salvation. So this is exactly what I needed: a new reminder on the importance of memorization, plus a new set of verses that better express my theology today.

On top of that as my kids were going to Awana before Covid and started to memorize their verses I was often uneasy about two things: the insistence on KJV and a language 5 year old don't understand, and their overt nationalism - with the risk that kids get the message that the Bible, God, the flag and the country belong to the same category. But we kept at it, since we had no alternative and memorizing is good, right?

But now we do have an alternative. We're gonna put this in practice, let's go.

[Eden · Rating 5 out of 5]

2024 bk 59 A well written book by Michael Frost and Graham Joseph Hill (they left an author off) about the reasons behind memorizing scripture (although they left off that memorizing seems to hold off the decay of social skills in alzheimer's patients - or at least the speaking ability. I enjoyed reading the book - provided important reasons for the Progressive (and any) Christian to follow their suggestions. I love their ideas of how best to memorize scripture, although I wish they had involved a woman who has to keep house, go to work, run kids places in the writing of the book - repeating the scripture 30 times a day is a little much, maybe. I enjoyed how they broke the types of scriptures into categories and then gave you cards that you could duplicate and carry as you memorize their suggested pathway. My choices of verses would be a tad bit different, but with the same message. Very enjoyable and a keeper of a book for the table on pages 28/29 and the information on the FISK Bible. Well done.

[Mary T · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm passionate about Scripture memory, so this was right up my alley! I joined a Zoom group that was studying this book. Reading it on hoopla on my phone wasn't as ideal as having the book myself, but this way, I didn't have to pay for it. There were some good insights and tips in the front half of the book. I'm currently working through the verses to memorize. I appreciate the emphasis on justice and the marginalized and also on how to apply these verses. I'm hoping to read the companion book soon.

[Tim Littleford · Rating 4 out of 5]

This resource argues for and sets you up with everything you need to cultivate a habit of memorising scripture. Intentionally pairs with Michael Frost's 'Suprise the World".

[Kristofer Strid · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastiskt innehåll, men funkar inte riktigt som ljudbok!

[Gift · Rating 1 out of 5]

DO NOT READ THIS BOOK. It denies the true gospel and insists on unbiblical, manmade and trashy false teaching.