Soul Architecture: Eat this Scroll // Rev. Michele Arndt // Feb 1 2026

When I was young, I remember learning a song in Sunday School that went like this: "The B-I-B-L-E, yes that's the book for me! I stand alone on the word of God - the B-I-B-L-E!"  The tune was catchy and I suppose it could be credited for planting a seed in my young mind that reading the Bible was an important thing to do. What I didn't know is that cultivating rhythms of reading my Bible along with a relationship to and understanding of the words on the page would be a lifelong pursuit. An NIV Children's Bible with a picture of Jesus holding a lamb on the front was a doorway to that journey.This journey might begin with child-like wonder, but it grows into something deeper as we faithfully put one foot in front of the other, one page at a time. Early attempts to grasp the stories and characters slowly turn into curiosity about what it means to draw near to the heart of God. Reading our Bibles doesn’t feel flashy most days, but below the surface, something is happening that we can’t always measure or mark. This Sunday, we will consider how the spiritual discipline of scripture reading moves us beyond mere knowledge and into a way of being in the world that looks like Jesus.