Another Lynn Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Do you add other Bible reading or Bible study in addition to your weekly BSF study? If so, what? Devotional reading? A Bible reading schedule without any in depth study? A book from the opposite Testament (i.e. We're in Isaiah this year, so a book from the New Testament?) A Character Trait resource? Also, do you focus on the BSF memory verses for Bible memory or do you use something else? Thanks!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hillary in KS Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 I just do the BSF lesson, and only complete another study during the summer months. During the BSF year, I'll do some of my own Bible reading, but nothing set in stone. Maybe 15 minutes a day in the other testament (this year it's the New Testament). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gobblygook Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 I just use the BSF lesson, although occasionally I'll do a topical study from YouVersion.com. I'm loving the Isaiah study! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harriet Vane Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 When I was involved in BSF (four years) I did just the BSF study each week. I appreciated the depth of the study. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
annabanana1992 Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 BSF is all I can handle... :001_smile: I use it for our Bible curriculum for the kiddos too... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cshell Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 We use BSF for all kiddos & myself! This is their Bible study for school. They just love it!! They memorize the memory verses from the study for school too! Isn't this study of Isaiah wonderful!!!:D We do some other fun family studies over the summer....same time....6:55!!!:lol: I have found it is good to keep them in God's word daily!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori D. Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 Loving getting back to BSF this year after a 3 year break -- and Isaiah is an *amazing* book! Other than the BSF study, I shoot for personal devotional time of reading out of Scripture and prayer, and then (high school age) DSs and I are doing Kay Arthur's "Lord is it Warfare" -- we've broken it into VERY tiny chunks though, so the 11-week study will end up taking us 26 weeks of the school year. We also read very short sections of other books together too. (This year, so far we've done: How To Be Your Own Selfish Pig; God's Smugger (autobiography of Brother Andrew); Mere Christianity; and are about to finish Wonderfully and Fearfully Made.) I have never been able to do BSF the way they lay it out (a little each day for 6 days), as I totally lose focus and the point of where it's going. I usually do it in 2 chunks -- within a day of receiving the new lesson, I read the notes and do the first questions on the lecture and the notes. Then a day or two before the next study, I stay up at night and spend 3-5 hours (depending on how sidetracked into word study of the original Hebrew I get!) of focused time and do the rest of the questions. Anyways, by doing other things, I am able to receive my "manna for the day", and then really dig into BSF as a study. Just what works for me! :) So fun to know other WTMers are also BSFers! ;) Warmest regards, Lori D. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeinfl Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 What is BSF? :confused: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Another Lynn Posted March 13, 2011 Author Share Posted March 13, 2011 Loving getting back to BSF this year after a 3 year break -- and Isaiah is an *amazing* book! Other than the BSF study, I shoot for personal devotional time of reading out of Scripture and prayer, and then (high school age) DSs and I are doing Kay Arthur's "Lord is it Warfare" -- we've broken it into VERY tiny chunks though, so the 11-week study will end up taking us 26 weeks of the school year. We also read very short sections of other books together too. (This year, so far we've done: How To Be Your Own Selfish Pig; God's Smugger (autobiography of Brother Andrew); Mere Christianity; and are about to finish Wonderfully and Fearfully Made.) I have never been able to do BSF the way they lay it out (a little each day for 6 days), as I totally lose focus and the point of where it's going. I usually do it in 2 chunks -- within a day of receiving the new lesson, I read the notes and do the first questions on the lecture and the notes. Then a day or two before the next study, I stay up at night and spend 3-5 hours (depending on how sidetracked into word study of the original Hebrew I get!) of focused time and do the rest of the questions. Anyways, by doing other things, I am able to receive my "manna for the day", and then really dig into BSF as a study. Just what works for me! :) So fun to know other WTMers are also BSFers! ;) Warmest regards, Lori D. Lori, I appreciate your experience! I do not study as deeply as you do, but I do find myself doing it in chunks rather than daily... and maybe that's why I find myself wanting to add to it. Thank you for sharing the other books you've read with your highschooler as well. Very helpful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Another Lynn Posted March 13, 2011 Author Share Posted March 13, 2011 Thank you ladies for your replies! I didn't realize there were so many people here in BSF! I do love the study and the accountability it has given us this year. It's possibly the only subject area I haven't jumped from curricula to curricula, LOL. Some weeks I have gotten more or less from it as it has been a busy year for us (dh's deployment and recent return home). And even though Israel's history is familiar to me, poetic language is not my forte. I confess there have been weeks when I found myself looking forward to next year's study in the book of Acts, LOL! As much as I would love to add something different to it during the week, I am relieved to read that most of you don't. (I like to keep to one resource per subject as much as possible). I could see adding a devotional book or something for my oldest without burdening him.... but probably not for the younger ones. Thanks again for all the replies! It's very helpful! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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