Here are a few suggestions to help you get started [with Bible meditation]. 1. Prepare. Issues of posture, time and place are secondary, but not unimportant. The only rule would be: do whatever is most conducive to concentration. 2. Peruse. Read, repeat the reading, write it out, then re-write it. 3. Picture. Apply your imagination and senses to the truth of the text. Envision yourself personally engaged in the relationship or encounter or experience of which the text speaks. 4. Ponder. Reflect on the truth of the Word; brood over the truth of the text; absorb it, soak it in, as you turn it over in your mind. 5. Pray. At some point take the truth as the Holy Spirit has illuminated it and pray it back to God whether in petition, thanksgiving, or intercession. 6. Personalize. Where possible, according to sound principles of biblical interpretation, replace proper names and proper pronouns with your own name. 7. Praise. Worship the Lord for who He is and what He has done and how it has been revealed in Scripture. 8. Practice. Commit yourself to doing what the Word commands. The aim of meditation is moral transformation.
Sam Storms

Lee Rutland Scarborough

Lee Rutland Scarborough

Lee Rutland Scarborough
1870-1945
Baptist minister and educator. L.R. Scarborough was born in Colfax, Louisiana, on July 4, 1870. His father was a farmer and preacher. Lee, one of five children in the family, was converted to Christ at the age of 17 at the First Baptist Church in Waco, Texas, and was ordained as a Baptist minister by the First Baptist Church of Abilene, Texas, in 1896. After graduating from Baylor University in 1892, he taught at that same institution for the next two years. He then entered Yale University, where he received an additional degree in 1896. Upon completion of his seminary work at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1900, Scarborough pastored in Texas for the next eight years. In 1908 he went to Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, as a professor in the school of theology, where he served until elected president of the seminary in 1915. He served in that capacity for the next 27 years until he retired in 1942.

During this period he also served as president of the Baptist General Convention of Texas (1929-31), vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention (1934-35), president of the Southern Baptist Convention (1938-41), and vice president of the Baptist World Alliance (1940-41). Dr. Scarborough was the author of 14 books, as well as a great preacher and soulwinner. He died in Amarillo, Texas, on April 10, 1945.

Ruckman ’66