What if memorizing Scripture didn’t require complex apps or a photographic memory? In this episode, Pastor John Green shares his practical, deeply personal method of Bible memorization—one that centers on index cards, structured review, and verses drawn straight from quiet time with God. Host Josh Summers explores how this 100-day review cycle has helped John internalize hundreds of Bible verses, adapt to a busy life, and cultivate spiritual depth.

Pastor Green discusses the emotional and meditative benefits of Scripture memory, explains how to avoid cherry-picking verses out of context, and opens up about how God’s Word has shaped his life. Whether you're just starting or looking to deepen your routine, this episode is packed with wisdom to help you make Bible memory sustainable, meaningful, and life-changing.
 

 ✅ John Green YouTube Channel – https://www.youtube.com/@pastorjohngreen

 ✅ Original John Green video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttqMdedueoA

 ✅ Join us at Scripture Sync Dallas 2025

 ✅ Get Josh's new book Memorize What Matters - https://www.memorizewhatmatters.com

 ✅ Download "52 Verses to Memorize - http://biblememorygoal.com/52verses

 ✅ Bible Memory Goal Website - http://biblememorygoal.com

Is this the key to avoid boredom and stagnation in the consistency of memorizing God's Word? This week my health coach introduced me to this idea of "intensifiers" and it feels really applicable to the spiritual discipline.

✅ Join us in Dallas for Scripture Sync 2025! https://scripturesyncdallas.com

✅ Listen to the audiobook of Memorize What Matters: https://www.memorizewhatmatters.com/book

Listen to last week's episode with Reagan Rose introducing a Christian perspective to productivity and goal setting:

 - On Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-make-time-for-bible-memory-even-if-youre-crazy-busy/id1624868713?i=1000701203386

  - On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6waWCYhL7s


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• Buy the Merch! Start a conversation about your Bible memory journey with a shirt or sticker to show your love of Scripture! 
• Become a Patron: For those who are part of our community, becoming a Patron is the best way to pay it forward for other members while gaining extra perks (live calls, mastermind groups, and more!) and access to our Bible memory training.
• Pay it Forward: Give any amount to help offset the costs of producing and hosting this podcast. Thank you! 

We're all busy and we're all being pulled in different directions. Taking the time to read the Bible - much less memorize it! - can feel like a huge undertaking. 

✅ Visit Reagan Rose's website: https://www.redeemingproductivity.com

✅ Check out Reagan's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@redeemingproductivity

✅ Join us in Dallas for Scripture Sync 2025! https://scripturesyncdallas.com

This podcast episode is based on a livestream that was originally published on the Bible Memory Goal YouTube channel. If you prefer to watch the interview as a video, you can find that here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6waWCYhL7s


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If you're one of those awesome people who understands that this "free" podcast takes time and effort to produce, there are a few ways that you can support what we're doing here:

• Buy the Merch! Start a conversation about your Bible memory journey with a shirt or sticker to show your love of Scripture! 
• Become a Patron: For those who are part of our community, becoming a Patron is the best way to pay it forward for other members while gaining extra perks (live calls, mastermind groups, and more!) and access to our Bible memory training.
• Pay it Forward: Give any amount to help offset the costs of producing and hosting this podcast. Thank you! 

Using the rhyming method, we're going to memorize the theme of all 13 chapter of 2 Corinthians. Here is your chance to see the broader picture of Paul's second letter to the church in Corinth, including the main topic of each chapter and a key verse.

  ✅ Download the free PDF here: https://www.biblememorygoal.com/outlines

  ✅ Watch the original live stream with Dr. Dinkins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onP6kyRSGOo

Join us for Scripture Sync Dallas! (June 7, 2025)

Scripture Sync is more than just meeting Josh Summers, Janet Pope and Dr. Larry Dinkins in person. This event in Dallas is an amazing opportunity to learn from and connect with others who love and prioritize the memorization of God's Word.

  ✅ Get your tickets here: https://www.biblememorygoal.com/ScriptureSync

• When: Saturday, June 7, 2025
• Where: Woodcreek Church, Richardson TX
• Who: Anybody - young or old - who wants to memorize more Scripture
• How much: $99 (early bird discount 50% off)
• Tickets: Buy your ticket

I hope to see you there!


🔹SUPPORT BIBLE MEMORY GOAL 🔹

If you're one of those awesome people who understands that this "free" podcast takes time and effort to produce, there are a few ways that you can support what we're doing here:

• Buy the Merch! Start a conversation about your Bible memory journey with a shirt or sticker to show your love of Scripture! 
• Become a Patron: For those who are part of our community, becoming a Patron is the best way to pay it forward for other members while gaining extra perks (live calls, mastermind groups, and more!) and access to our Bible memory training.
• Pay it Forward: Give any amount to help offset the costs of producing and hosting this podcast. Thank you! 

Scripture Sync is more than just meeting Josh Summers, Janet Pope and Dr. Larry Dinkins in person. This event in Dallas is an amazing opportunity to learn from and connect with others who love and prioritize the memorization of God's Word. Get your tickets here: https://www.biblememorygoal.com/ScriptureSync

What is Scripture Sync Dallas?

It isn't a conference - it's going to be an interactive community event where we'll get to worship together, we'll have guided small groups where you can test out new memory techniques, hear panel discussions, enjoy Scripture recited and maybe even have a chance to recite part of what you've memorized to someone else.

• When: Saturday, June 7, 2025
• Where: Woodcreek Church, Richardson TX
• Who: Anybody - young or old - who wants to memorize more Scripture
• How much: $99 (early bird discount 50% off)
• Tickets: Buy your ticket

I hope to see you there!


🔹SUPPORT BIBLE MEMORY GOAL 🔹

If you're one of those awesome people who understands that this "free" podcast takes time and effort to produce, there are a few ways that you can support what we're doing here:

• Buy the Merch! Start a conversation about your Bible memory journey with a shirt or sticker to show your love of Scripture! 
• Become a Patron: For those who are part of our community, becoming a Patron is the best way to pay it forward for other members while gaining extra perks (live calls, mastermind groups, and more!) and access to our Bible memory training.
• Pay it Forward: Give any amount to help offset the costs of producing and hosting this podcast. Thank you! 

If you've never heard of the Oral Bible Translation (OBT), you're not alone. Today, Josh sits down with two of the translators who are working on this project, understanding what it is, how it's different from an audio Bible, and what this has to do with memorization (hint: it's closely related!).

✅ Akuo Bible (Oral Bible Translations) - https://akuobible.org

✅ Spoken.org (Global Literacy & Orality Stats) - https://spoken.org/

✅ Get Josh’s new book Memorize What Matters - https://www.memorizewhatmatters.com

As a follow up to this episode, listen to Dr. Larry Dinkins explain how he uses orality as a means of sharing the gospel:

✅ Understanding Orality Part 1: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/orality-vs-word-for-word-bible-memory-part-1/id1624868713?i=1000587447099

✅ Understanding Orality Part 2: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/orality-vs-word-for-word-bible-memory-part-2/id1624868713?i=1000588430742


🔹SUPPORT BIBLE MEMORY GOAL 🔹

If you're one of those awesome people who understands that this "free" podcast takes time and effort to produce, there are a few ways that you can support what we're doing here:

• Buy the Merch! Start a conversation about your Bible memory journey with a shirt or sticker to show your love of Scripture! 
• Become a Patron: For those who are part of our community, becoming a Patron is the best way to pay it forward for other members while gaining extra perks (live calls, mastermind groups, and more!) and access to our Bible memory training.
• Pay it Forward: Give any amount to help offset the costs of producing and hosting this podcast. Thank you! 

We're drowning in information but we're starving for widsom. Despite this, most Christians oursource this one important skill to pastors, authors and influencers instead of learning it for themselves. Here are some simple tools to start learning this skill and how the memorization of Scripture can help.

Don't forget:

✅ Check out the benefits of being a Patron: https://www.biblememorygoal.com/patron

✅ Listen to Jonathan Bradford's interview: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-does-it-take-to-memorize-the-entire-new/id1624868713?i=1000677862005

✅ Grab Josh's book Memorize What Matters: https://www.memorizewhatmatters.com/book


🔹SUPPORT BIBLE MEMORY GOAL 🔹

If you're one of those awesome people who understands that this "free" podcast takes time and effort to produce, there are a few ways that you can support what we're doing here:

• Buy the Merch! Start a conversation about your Bible memory journey with a shirt or sticker to show your love of Scripture! 
• Become a Patron: For those who are part of our community, becoming a Patron is the best way to pay it forward for other members while gaining extra perks (live calls, mastermind groups, and more!) and access to our Bible memory training.
• Pay it Forward: Give any amount to help offset the costs of producing and hosting this podcast. Thank you! 

Hear from Christians around the world who have prioritized Scripture memory. How has it impacted their lives? Why do they do it year after year? If you're in need of some extra inspiration this week, you'll get plenty of it here.

Don't forget:

✅ Join the Community (+ 7 Day Challenge!): https://www.biblememorygoal.com/join

✅ Take Bible Memory to the Next Level as a Patron: https://www.biblememorygoal.com/patron

✅ Grab Josh's book Memorize What Matters: https://www.memorizewhatmatters.com/book


🔹SUPPORT BIBLE MEMORY GOAL 🔹

If you're one of those awesome people who understands that this "free" podcast takes time and effort to produce, there are a few ways that you can support what we're doing here:

• Buy the Merch! Start a conversation about your Bible memory journey with a shirt or sticker to show your love of Scripture! 
• Become a Patron: For those who are part of our community, becoming a Patron is the best way to pay it forward for other members while gaining extra perks (live calls, mastermind groups, and more!) and access to our Bible memory training.
• Pay it Forward: Give any amount to help offset the costs of producing and hosting this podcast. Thank you! 

Over the decades that Drake Mariani has been memorizing Scripture, he realized something important: all it takes is an image that can help jog his memory for the first couple words of a verse and then he can recite it. So he created an app called "Memlok" with the images he created. Listen to his story here!

Because we spend time walking through the Memlok app, it might be helpful to watch this interview on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXQ2Wz4EFJA

Below are the resources mentioned in this episode:

✅ Try the Memlok app: https://memlok.com/

✅ Listen to Josh's Interview on Faith & Feelings: https://www.taylorjoymurray.co/podcasts/faith-feelings/episodes/2148968693

✅ Learn how to turn numbers into images with our Major System training: https://www.biblememorygoal.com/majorsystem

✅ Get Josh's new book Memorize What Matters - https://www.memorizewhatmatters.com



🔹SUPPORT BIBLE MEMORY GOAL 🔹

If you're one of those awesome people who understands that this "free" podcast takes time and effort to produce, there are a few ways that you can support what we're doing here:

• Buy the Merch! Start a conversation about your Bible memory journey with a shirt or sticker to show your love of Scripture! https://bible-memory-goal.myspreadshop.com/
• Become a Patron: For those who are part of our community, becoming a Patron is the best way to pay it forward for other members while gaining extra perks (live calls, mastermind groups, and more!) and access to our Bible memory training. https://community.biblememorygoal.com/checkout/bible-memory-patron-plus
• Pay it Forward: Give any amount to help offset the costs of producing and hosting this podcast. Thank you! https://www.biblememorygoal.com/support

In elementary education, the use of "TPR" completely transforms how a child learns information and is one of the reasons why they can so easily soak up Bible verses. Listen as Sandy Hinkle from Bible Fox Learning explains her methodology and what we can take away as adults trying to memorize Scripture. 

Resources mentioned in this episode:

✅ Visit Bible Fox Learning for resources on scripture memorization using TPR
https://www.biblefoxlearning.com/

✅ Bible Fox Learning YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@biblefoxlearning9597

✅ Download the 52 Verses sheet: https://www.biblememorygoal.com/52verses

✅ Listen to the new Memory Moment podcast: https://www.biblememorygoal.com/52podcast

✅ Join our Bible memory community! https://www.biblememorygoal.com/join


🔹SUPPORT BIBLE MEMORY GOAL 🔹

If you're one of those awesome people who understands that this "free" podcast takes time and effort to produce, there are a few ways that you can support what we're doing here:

• Buy the Merch! Start a conversation about your Bible memory journey with a shirt or sticker to show your love of Scripture! 
• Become a Patron: For those who are part of our community, becoming a Patron is the best way to pay it forward for other members while gaining extra perks (live calls, mastermind groups, and more!) and access to our Bible memory training.
• Pay it Forward: Give any amount to help offset the costs of producing and hosting this podcast. Thank you!