We're coming up to the end of one year and the beginning of another. It's a time where many of us make plans, if not actual resolutions, for a fresh start.
Have you ever followed a plan for reading your Bible? Perhaps you've only just read whatever captured your interest at a particular time, but you can actually make a great deal of progress with a little guidance and discipline. You can even read through the Bible in the year 2009 in just fifteen minutes a day.
How do you come up with a plan? Well, you can do it the hard way with a calendar and your Bible's table of contents (I've done that before), or you can go here to the Discipleship Journal website--a publication of The Navigators-- and download a few helpful plans that each take a different approach.
Their standard Discipleship Journal plan has the reader in four different places within the Bible each day. I personally like the Book-at-a-Time plan, which is pretty self-explanatory. A newer 5x5x5 plan is "5 minutes per day, 5 days per week, 5 ways to dig deeper. Takes you through one chapter each day. Read the New Testament in one year."
Pick one, print it, stick it in your Bible, and try it out. I'll post soon on some online options for reading through the Bible in a year.
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