Would you like to develop an “eye” for recognizing God’s work in the world? Would you like to have confidence in knowing God’s will? Reading the Bible can help you!
This year, we’re recommending The Discipleship Journal Bible Reading Plan, because it offers special features that will aid you in your journey through the Bible:
- By reading from four separate places in the Scripture every day you should be able to better grasp the unity of the Scriptures, as well as enjoy the variety of seeing four different viewpoints.
- You can begin at any point of the year.
- To prevent the frustration of falling behind, which most of us tend to do when following a Bible reading plan, each month of this plan gives you only 25 readings. Since you'll have several "free days" each month, you could set aside Sunday to either not read at all or to catch up on any readings you may have missed in the past week.
- If you finish the month's readings by the 25th, you could use the final days of the month to study passages that challenged or intrigued you.
If reading through the entire Bible in one year looms as too large a task, you can alter the plan to meet your needs. For example, you could read the gospels and the wisdom books this year, and the other two categories next year.
In the year ahead, ask God each day to speak directly to you from the Scripture portions you read. Be expectant, and let your continual exposure to God's Word reshape your attitudes and behavior as you gain a better understanding of every part of His written testimony to us. The Discipleship Journal Bible Reading Plan is available in a printable format for the entire year's readings. [BRPlan.pdf] Other Bible Reading Plans and Resources: BibleGateway's daily reading page (You may want to bookmark that page by right-clicking on the link and choosing "Add to favorites/bookmarks".) BibleGateway's daily reading is also available via RSS and iCal as well. If you miss a day or want to read ahead, you can use the calendar in the top right to navigate forward or backward through the reading plan.
BibleGateway also has four different reading plans to choose from, each guiding you through the text of the Bible via a different route. (Read about the four reading plans.) You'll also be able to choose from a variety of different Bible versions to use with your reading plan.
BiblePlan (http://bibleplan.org) provides several options and resources.
5x5x5 Bible Reading Plan. The Navigators have developed a new program, the 5x5x5 Bible Reading Plan. You spend five minutes per day, five days per week, with five ways to dig deeper. This takes you through one chapter each day, and you read the New Testament in one year. Since it has only 260 reading sessions per year (you do the math: 5 days/week x 52 weeks per year), you can catch up; and, when caught up, you have time to go back, reflect, underline, highlight, and let God's word really sink in. And like the other program, you can start at any time of the year!
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