Paul McKenzie

Paul McKenzie is a singer, songwriter and a gifted guitarist but there is much more to his ministry.
He is passionate about scripture and teaches others to memorize the Bible, providing seminars and instructional material, as well.
He is well-known for his ability to showcase the Word of God through dramatic portrayals of Biblical personalities.

Memory Verse, Monday, January 19: New Testament Books

History/Letters/Prophecy

The New Testament canon contains 27 books.

You can divide the New Testament into three categories: Histories, Letters, and Prophecy.

Out of the 27 books, the first five are histories, which consists of the four Gospels and the "Acts of the Apostles", and the "Prophecy" category is just one book: "Revelation". The other 21 are the Letters, or "Epistles".

The Letters are first divided into two categories, with one "transitional" letter. They are the "Letters written by Paul", and the "General Letters", that is, the letters written by someone other than Paul.

The "Transition" letter is "Hebrews", which divides Paul's letters from the Generals. This is because some people think Paul wrote Hebrews, others don't. We don't really know, but it does make a good transition for us when memorizing the order of books in the New Testament.

Paul's letters are divided in a logical order as well: The Letters written to "Churches", and the Letters written to "Individuals".

And the "Church" letters are divided into three Large letters and twice as many, or six Small Letters.

I put them to music, and made a game board out of them to help me remember the order. Below shows the game board I made to help me see the logic, which I use just like I use the OT board.

Tomorrow we'll dig deeper. Today, just work on the basic outline as listed in the Memory Helps section.

Today if you hear His voice, harden not your heart.

Memory Helps

New Testament: 27 books

Three categories: History, Letters, Prophecy

History: 5 books: 4 Gospels, Book of Acts
Letters: 21 books: 13 by Paul, 1 Transition (authorship unsure), 7 Generals
Prophecy: 1 book: Revelation

Bible Game Chart
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Quick phonetic alphabet review: 0=S or Z; 1=t, or d; 2=N; 3=M; 4=R; 5=L; 6=J,sh,ch; 7=K or hard g; 8=F or V; and 9=P or b. All vowels, and w, and y are fillers. Example: "95" could be represented by PauL, or BaiLey, or PaiL, with the consonant sounds representing the numbers, and the vowels fillers.

Verses will be in the ESV unless otherwise notated.

Soli Deo Gloria

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