A.D.: Memorizing Scripture

Yesterday we just about finished watching A.D. that we rented from ChristianCinema.com. It is such a good mini-series. I remember watching it when I was early in my teens, and wanting to see it again. They never aired it again and over the years, I always wondered why. Now I know! It's full of scripture and Biblical accounts!

We loved it when Paul met Luke, because we are particular fans of the book of Luke since listening to (and practically memorizing!) "The Luke Reports" (now called "The Life of Jesus"). I guess even fiction can propel you into God's word!

In A.D. I particularly loved one scene where Paul is teaching a crowded room and he recites I Corinthians 13. I don't know who the actor was, but it was a fabulous speaking of fabulous scripture! I was giddy with excitement and tears imagining Paul actually speaking those words of God. I decided right then and there that I Corinthians 13 will be our passage to memorize as a family when we go on our trip! I can't wait. AND since everyone else was as enthralled with the movie (uhh, I mean the "God's words" part, of course!) as I was, they can't ask me WHY we're memorizing it!

May we put them to practice always!

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love,
I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge,
and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love,
I am nothing.
If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned,
but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast;
it is not arrogant or rude.
It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;
it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never ends.
As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease;
as for knowledge, it will pass away.
For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes,
the partial will pass away.
When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child.
When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.
For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face.
Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three;
but the greatest of these is love.
(1Co 13:1-13 ESV)