Bible Read-through

Something to keep in mind when blogging about the year long Bible read-through is that it’s best to blog while thoughts are fresh. Yesterday, I read the four chapters aloud to Jenn in about fourteen minutes. Today, I read aloud to the dude again, and the four chapters only took eleven minutes to read to him. Not bad. So far, it’s been less than twenty minutes a day to read four chapters, aloud. Maybe this year will be the year to read the Bible aloud.

Again, big things for the day three readings. You’ve got Jesus being baptized by John to “fulfill all righteousness,” you’ve got the fall (and here’s a thought concerning God’s plan for the fall; He created all things “good”, in fact, “very good” and the serpent does its job of deception, bringing about the fall,) you’ve got Solomon building the temple (or at least giving the dimensions) not as interesting as yesterday’s missive to the king of Tyre requesting wood and expert craftsmen and such, and a Psalm from David pleading for the Lord’s salvation from his enemies, “Salvation belongs to the Lord; your blessing be on your people!”

One of these days, the greatest hits are going to slow down, right?

Well, in case you’re wondering about the plan I’m following this year for the Bible read through, here it is. It’s kind of a mash-up we put together for First Baptist in Thunder Bay this year. It takes the best of the Robert Murray M’Cheyne plan and simplifies it to work with Grant Horner’s perpetual Bible bookmark method. What we end up with is four bookmarks and four single chapter readings a day. That’s about 15–20 minutes if you read slowly, like I do.

Reading 1: Matthew – Revelation, Proverbs, Psalms 81–150
Reading 2: Genesis – First Chronicles
Reading 3: Second Chronicles – Malachi (Skip Psalms – Song of Solomon)
Reading 4: Psalms 1–80, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon, Matthew – Revelation

So you end up reading through the New Testament twice in a year (and you’re always reading something from the NT, and for four or five months in the middle of the year, you’re getting two NT readings a day,) and the Old Testament once in a year. The bookmarks make it easy to know where you’re going and with three of the four readings you have a number of spare days so you can catch up if you need to.

You can download the Four bookmarks for the Bible read through plan here and read along!

The first of January is an absolute gold mine in the Bible read through year. You get the lead-up to the birth of Jesus, the Creation story 1.0, Solomon asking for wisdom and getting it plus all those bonuses and Pslam 1. Well, at least you get all that with the Bible read through that I’m doing this year.

Are you starting a Bible reading plan today?