The King James Version is celebrating its 400th anniversary (1611-2011). In the past 400 years, the King James Version (KJV) has made a great impact on the English language. David Crystal, in his book Begat, The King James Bible and the English Language, shows just how much the KJV has affected our language and gives many examples of words and phrases that are in our common in our daily speech.
Another valuable active-reading tool is marking your Bible with symbols. Marking with symbols allows you to interact with the text. Like highlighting, symbols require you to look closely at a text in order to identify the main points. Symbols can work much like a color-code in that they can allow you to mark according to topic, or bring out the main points according to key-words.
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The Pursuit of Holiness by Jerry Bridges is a fine work that builds Biblical principles and guidelines that we need in order to obey God’s command to live a holy life. Bridges doesn’t just make claims that we should live holy and leave it at that. Instead, he shows from Scripture the need of living a holy life and how to attain it. This book truly demonstrates the pursuit of holiness.
Another valuable form of active reading is taking notes. At first it might sound strange that writing be can part of reading, but writing lets us interact with the text. Interacting with the text helps you pull out the main points, which helps you to get a deeper understanding of the text. It also helps in memorizing Scripture.
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