Featured Projects

  • Read the Bible Aloud

    Some of the most fun I've had in my Bible study time has been sustained periods of shouting God's Word aloud. Throughout Scripture God calls His people to response and action, and often a spoken word is the simplest form of response. Putting God's Word in your mouth and ears may be the most effective way of placing it within your heart.

  • Moleskine Notebook Bible

    Create an interleaved Bible by pasting alternating pages from old abused paperback editions into a large plain notebook. With a little ingenuity and some old Bibles and some household items you can have a study tool similar to Jonathan Edward's blank Bible.

  • Creating Cross References

    One of the most common ways to take notes in your Bible is to create your own cross-references in the margins, linking verses that interpret and illuminate each other. Often the process and order of creating these cross references leads to new revelation as topics connect and diverge, one theme leads to another and the relationship between topics in the Word often brings light.

  • Newsletters

    My monthly newsletter articles feature the fruits of study and obedience to fulfill God's call as an urban missionary in the Metro Detroit area. The newsletter posts feature the opening article and a link to the full newsletter and to old newsletters. The articles focus on discovering intimacy and passion on the urban mission field and in Muslim Ministry.

  • Christ's Commands: Amplified Bible

    This highlighting project didn't start out with a complex color scheme, but grew from the desire to focus on a single subject. Jesus makes an unequivocal statement in John 14:15 that constantly challenged me as a young believer and continues to stir me and burn me today: "If you love me you will keep my commandments."p>

  • Homemade KJV Looseleaf

    printkjv.ifbweb.com offers free Microsoft word and Plain Text files of the entire KJV. This means that the text block can reformatted and printed it any way. It also features the books of the Bible in individual documents so you can print an individual book to look at. Perhaps the most obvious use of this resource is the creation of an interleaf Bible.p>

Saturday, May 22, 2010

Faith Comes by Hearing

Romans 10:17: the use of the word "hearing" doesn't often trouble us, but there's an entire branch of literary theory dedicated to weighing the power of the spoken word with the written word (logocentrism and phonocentrism). The spoken word's most valuable supporting text is in fact the Bible, which establishes an idea of Logos as the vessel for God's power. The connection between Christ and Logos, the Word, remains inescapable: John 1:1. God spoke creation into being; He spoke light and energy into existence and motion Genesis 1:3. The act of speech holds great power in the Bible Proverbs 18:21, James 3:6.

Taking the Bible as literally as possible (perhaps too literally) would necessitate the literal hearing of scripture as well as reading the Bible. This train of thought would encourage reading the Bible out loud, listening to sermons, going to church and ministry events and listening to an audio Bible. While I personally do not make a strong distinction between the necessity for literal hearing and the necessity of mentally hearing through silent reading and meditation, literally hearing the word of God aids memorization, boosts faith and can make the scripture a more visceral experience.

Faith Comes by Hearing is an evangelical ministry dedicated to the free distribution of audio Bibles and New Testaments in as many languages as possible. They currently distribute audio Bibles in 452 different languages to more than 152 different countries.

One of their ways of gathering support for their ministry is through the free distribution of English audio New Testaments. You can download a simple download manager and have access to 13 different English translations (and other languages) which are available for free download in MP3 format.




I've downloaded a number of versions and made a playlist of certain scripture I'm attempting to memorize. I burned a CD for my car and hope to recite the scripture along with the CD, which will help me memorize.

You can also buy versions from their store and other materials, which will help support their ministry, and of course you can donate.

Dollar Stores also tend to have Audio Bibles on CD and DVD (usually KJV) for $1 or perhaps a bit more if you want a more popular version (James Earl Jones would be nice). Most of us live in a nation that gives us the opportunity to be saturated with God's word. Check out Faith Comes by Hearing.
Posted by Jonathan Ammon at 10:09 AM
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1 comments:

  1. My family has been using Faith Comes by Hearing for years now. My dad has a form of dyslexia which prevents him from reading at a typical pace while still maintaining comprehension. I normally don't see him "reading" his Bible but he's listened through the New Testament about 8 times or more and the entire Bible about 4 or 5 times while driving around for work. Another leader in our church (who has since passed away) wasn't able read (a learning disorder I cannot remember the name of) but he was also able to study the Bible this way.

    However, I didn't know it was now available as a download. (We had to purchase the entire CDs sets.) Very good news!

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