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Bible Journaling Acrylic Galaxy & Beautiful Song Lyrics

Happy Wednesday, friends! This week I’m bringing you another Bible journaling tutorial. I tried out painting a galaxy with acrylic paints, and even dared to use Sharpie! Hope you enjoy this Bible journaling acrylic galaxy ☺

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Bible Journaling/Creative Play with Acrylic Paint: Fingerpainting!!

Hello friends! This post is the beginning of a series inspired by the Illustrated Faith blog, which used to post tutorials almost weekly, but has now become inactive. Basically, I’ll show you my process of Bible journaling with various techniques and supplies, with the hope of inspiring you to try new things and grow in …

Artistic Bible Journaling: Another Way to Illustrate Your Faith

It’s Wednesday, and I’m giving you another style of Bible journaling to inspire you to grow in your faith. This week, we’ll talk about the “artistic” style of Bible journaling. Enjoy!

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Hufflepuff Bible Verses: How Hufflepuff is Important to the Kingdom

It’s episode three of The Gospel According to Harry Potter! This week, we’re focusing on Hufflepuff Bible verses. Enjoy! Fandom: Hufflepuff house and its distinguishing characteristics Verses: Nugget: Hufflepuff characteristics are valuable to the Kingdom of God.

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Scrapbook Bible Journaling: Tips, Supplies, and 12+ Examples

Hello friends! Today’s installment of the Bible journaling series breaks down one of the two major styles I’ve found in the Bible journaling world. This style of Bible journaling uses scrapbook paper, stickers, and sometimes a themed devotional kit from companies like Illustrated Faith or BytheWell4God to create journaling pages. Since this is one of …

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Ravenclaw Bible Verses: How Ravenclaw Is Valuable to the Kingdom of Heaven

Welcome back to the Gospel According to! This month’s discussion will be just a little different. Instead of focusing on a single quote, I’m finding several verses that line up with the characteristics of each Hogwarts house. First up of course is Ravenclaw, since that’s my house. Enjoy this list of Ravenclaw Bible verses! Fandom: …

My Bible Reading Plans for 2021 (with stickers!!)

The new year is a perfect time to begin or maintain a Bible reading habit. This year, I’m following a chronological read-through-the-Bible-in-a-year plan, but taking as much time as I need to really soak in all the goodness. Here are my plans and routine for devotional time in 2021!

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Slytherin Bible Verses: How Slytherin House is Valuable to the Kingdom of God

Greetings, fellow Harry Potter fans! this week’s post is the second in a series of posts discussing Bible verses I’ve found that connect to the Hogwarts houses from the Harry Potter series. You can read the first episode, Ravenclaw, here. Enjoy this collection of Slytherin Bible verses! Fandom: Harry Potter Slytherin house and its distinguishing …

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Blogmas Day 23: How To Paint a Journaling Bible Cover – My Sister’s Bible!! 🥰🎂🎄

Happy day-before-the-day-before Christmas!! Today is also my sister’s birthday. She’s turning sixteen, and I’ve been working on her present for almost two years now. Join me as I finish painting and setting up a journaling Bible that I’ve been customizing just for her. Follow along with me to gain some tips on how to paint …

Blogmas Day 22: Faith Blog Tag – The Whosoever Tag

Day 22 of blogmas, and another blog tag for you! This one is faith-based. This tag was created by Purple Rose/Reluctant Preacher’s Daughter. YOu can find the original tag here. Enjoy!

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Blogmas Day 20: Advent Micro Bible Journal With Me 🎨🖋

Happy five days before Christmas! Today I’m journaling day 20 of Advent in my ESV pocket size Bible. You can find out more about this style of Bible journaling in this post all about micro Bible journaling. Enjoy today’s entry!

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Micro Bible Journaling: Step by Step Tutorial and 20+ Examples

Hello, friends, and welcome back to the Bible journaling series, where I break down every technique of Bible journaling ever (or at least, all the ones I’ve heard of). In week one, we talked about journaling outside your Bible, and this week we’ll talk about the next level: micro Bible journaling.

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Bible Journaling Outside Your Bible: Tutorial in a Happy Planner + Examples

One of the things I hear most from people who look at my Bible goes something like, “How do you do that? I could never be so artistic. I wouldn’t know what to put where, with all the stickers and washi tape that you use.” Today, I’m here to show you some of the most …

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Faith and Focus Planner Review: The Best Daily Planner for Short-Term Seasons

This summer was really… different. As we all know, many plans were cancelled. For me, my plans to work at a camp for most of the summer were completely wiped out. Instead, I used the sudden abundance of free time, and the new planner I bought, to take summer classes and document memories. And now, …

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Romans Word Study Round-Up: Righteousness, Fulfillment, New Life

Hello, faithful friends! It’s time for a Word study round-up! If you don’t know what a word study is, allow me to explain. Because the Bible was written in different languages (Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek), modern readers like us can benefit from studying it in its original language as well as our own. This usually …

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Gratitude Documented 2020: My Supplies, Plans, and More

It’s that time of year again! November is the month when we all start thinking about thankfulness, maybe on a few days for Thanksgiving, or maybe all month. For the Bible journaling community, this is the month we embark on a 30-day project known as Gratitude Documented. This post will show you what Gratitude Documented …

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Loved: a Mixtape Inspired by Illustrated Faith

The moment I saw the new devotional from Illustrated Faith, I was in love. If you didn’t know, Illustrated Faith is a company that combines curated art/craft supplies with devotional content to encourage us to express and grow in our faith creatively, especially through Bible journaling. This month’s devotional is called Mixtape (hence the title …

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Bible Journaling Techniques: 7 Places to Express Your Faith Creatively

At some point in the year 2014, a lady named Shauna Noel started a movement. Using a wide-margin Bible and craft supplies she already had, she documented the things she learned from Bible study, devotional time, and sermon notes in a creative way. Now, there are probably thousands of us out there, making beautiful things …

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Word Nerd Wednesday: Zateo/Seek

Honesty will always be my policy here, so here’s an honest moment: when I opened my Bible tonight, I didn’t expect to spend hours studying and journaling. I started out with watercolor pencils in my read-the-Bible-for-the-simple-joy-of-reading-the-Bible Bible (Message Canvas Bible). YouTube was playing in the background, but not anything super “spiritual”, just a plan with …