http://bibleforums.org/blog.php/15377-TrustGzus A free online Christian Community. Active, moderated Christian Message Board. en Sat, 25 May 2013 05:38:38 GMT vBulletin 60 http://bibleforums.org/images/misc/rss.jpg http://bibleforums.org/blog.php/15377-TrustGzus http://bibleforums.org/entry.php/1084-Read-the-Bible-in-2009 Thu, 27 Nov 2008 01:36:29 GMT The plan I use is not on the internet. However, the plan that Shoal Creek Community Church posts on their website (http://shoalcreek.org/res/documents/SCCC-YearlyBibleReadingPlan.pdf) is identical except for a chapter here and there. It has... The plan I use is not on the internet. However, the plan that Shoal Creek Community Church posts on their website is identical except for a chapter here and there. It has readings for every day of the year except February 29th. It takes an average of about 13 minutes a day. Some days are over 20 minutes. Some are as short as 9 minutes (I get the time from audio Bibles, not my own reading pace). It's generally chronological. So if Samuel and Kings or Chronicles have the same story, you read both passages the same day. If a Psalm was written during a particular event in David's life, you read it at that time. You don't read all 150 Psalms in a row. They are scattered throughout the year. You read Old & New Testament every day until November where you just read the New Testament mostly because in this plan you read the NT twice.

If this is your first attempt at reading through the Bible, I don't recommend this plan. However, I would encourage you to try to get to this eventually. Reading the NT twice a year is wonderful. But the plan is unforgiving. Right now I'm about 4 days behind. I have Matthew 16 -25 to read to get caught up. That's about 50 minutes worth of reading. I'll get caught up, but for some it might be enough to make them quit and that's the last thing I want. I want you to succeed.

The plan I recommend the most for people who've never read through the Bible is the Discipleship Journal Reading Plan. It's nice because it only has 25 readings a month. This allows you miss 5 or 6 days a month and not fall behind. It's divided into four columns with check marks so you can track what you've read. This is great for most of us as you can miss 65 days a year and still stay on track. If it's still too much, you can take two columns this year and two next year.

Another plan from Discipleship Journal (DJ) is the 5X5X5 plan. This is a plan to read through the New Testament only by reading for 5 minutes a day (or so) 5 days a week. So you can miss 105 days a year on this plan.

DJ also has a Book-at-a-time plan. Click on that link to check that one out.

Obviously with the Shoal Creek plan or any of the three DJ plans you can print out the PDF file and keep it in your Bible.

Another recent discovery, one I posted recently, is reading with eword on the net. They offer five plans to get through the Bible in a year:

1. Beginning to End: Read the Bible from start to finish, from Genesis to Revelation.
2. Chronological: Read the Bible as its events occurred in real time. For example, Job lived sometime after the beginning of creation (Genesis 1) but before Abraham was born (Genesis 12). As a result, the Book of Job is integrated into the Book of Genesis.
3. Historical: Read the books of the Bible as they were written historically, according to the estimated date of their writing.
4. New then Old: A BibleYear.com exclusive! Read through the New Testament first, then read through the Old Testament.
5. Old and New: Each day includes a passage from both the Old Testament and New Testament.

Explore that site. You click on your reading for the day and it keeps track for you by crossing it out after you've gone to the link. One thing really cool at this website is that it has 24 different start dates: the 1st and 15th of every month. So if you decide to start now . . . you can back up to the 15th of November and catch up OR give yourself a head start and click on December 1st. My only problem with this website is you don't open your own Bible. So if you don't know how to find Haggai or Obadiah, or if you get Chronicles and Corinthians mixed up, this plan won't help you know your Bible in your hand as well. But again, if an internet reading plan will help you read, then that's still a good thing.

I'd love to hear what you're doing. Plus, I'd like to know so I can encourage you and hold you accountable. ]]> TrustGzus http://bibleforums.org/entry.php/1084-Read-the-Bible-in-2009