Month July 2020

Recollections from Nationals 2016 (Part I)

Originally published on Unabridged. The National Bible Bee Competition (www.biblebee.org) this year took place in San Antonio, Texas, November 16-20. My sister and I were competing in the Junior division and my two younger siblings in the Primary division.…

Bible Bee Studying Tools I

Study Notes RoamResearch – RoamResearch is a note-taking app that generates a visual graph from your notes, showing each note as a node with connections to notes it links to. It’s a quick and easy way to visualize your studying,…

Trusting God in Disappointment

Grief and Disappointment You know you’re in the Bible Bee when your heart was in a million pieces sometime on July 3, 2020. I’m sure you’ve all heard the news by now. Bible Bee Nationals cannot be the same as…

“Literal” Families – a funny quiz

Just for fun; based on “literal” interpretations of the text of Genesis. 1. Who are Joseph’s 4 sons? 2. Who are Jacob’s 2 fathers? 3. Based on the above information and other verses in Genesis 37-50, who were Manasseh’s 14…

Fun With Name Tags

a story from Nationals 2018 The morning of semi-finals, after I had breakfast and reviewed my verses, my family boarded our car. I double-checked that I had everything in my bag – my verses to review on the way, my…

Bible Mystery Bits

I took a person by the beard, pretending to kiss him, and struck him in the stomach.  His entrails poured out on the ground.  Who am I?  (Bonus:  Who did I kill?) I lay on my side for 390 days,…