Bible reading plans for the new year

[Saint Kevin]

I thought I'd post a link to these bible reading plans I found online. I plan to read along with the "Chronological" plan myself, and I hope that you decide to read the bible in a year as well (no matter who's plan you follow). I happen to like this plan, because I can just bookmark the site, and read that day's portion of scripture off the web. Since I'm online just about every day, I won't have a problem carving out five or ten minutes of my online time to read scripture.

Here's the link: Linkage

Anyone else reading through the bible this year? If so, which plan are you using I wonder. Feel free to post them. Also, I'm going to start posting my own reflections on occasional daily scripture portions (in my LJ) in an effort to apply more of what I learn, rather than just absorbing the bible in academic fashion. I've done that way too much in the past, and I feel it's high time to make a change.

*Raises glass*

Here's to the hope that God's word will penetrate and transform us more this year than ever before.

[FadedOne]

sweet

The plan i've been using for Bible reading isn't really a 'plan' since I can never follow those. What i've been doing though is reading 4 chapters a night....one chapter from each book. I just pick 4 books at random and work my way through, marking down when I finish the book. Then I pick another. It actually works pretty well because I can focus on which sections of the Bible catch my attention. Trying to balance OT and NT as well.

[Ashley]

I'm working through the Bible this year, too, but I'm going in straight canonical order, because my Bible (Life Application Study Bible, NASB) has the plan in the back of it. It's pretty straightforward, just a chapter a day...but I'm going to try to up it a little and read more--one chapter is just going to be my minimum. I plan on trying to read the Bible every year that I'm a Christian, and I'm already 15 years behind, so I'm well overdue for a change.

I think what will make the difference this year is 1-accountability and 2- the study Bible I use has lots of interesting, pratical application notes and commentaries, so I think it'll make even the drier sections in Numbers and Leviticus, for example, really pop out.

[Mr. SmartyPants]

Ya could also try this
http://www.thruthebible.org
(with Dr. John Vernon McGee, deceased btw)

[Yahshua]

Hm it is always nice to do that however every time I try it I always got lost somewhere within the hard books in the Bible.

[Tringard]

sweet

The plan i've been using for Bible reading isn't really a 'plan' since I can never follow those. What i've been doing though is reading 4 chapters a night....one chapter from each book. I just pick 4 books at random and work my way through, marking down when I finish the book. Then I pick another. It actually works pretty well because I can focus on which sections of the Bible catch my attention. Trying to balance OT and NT as well.

My current reading plan is rather similar, I started with 3 semi-random books 1 OT and 2 NT (Psalms, John, and 1 Timothy). Each day I read a bit from each bookmark (a chapter of Psalms and then varying amounts from the other two depending on the content and how much it has to say to me).
When I reach the end of one book I've just been continuing to the next (now in Psalms, Acts, and Hebrews). The plan of what to do when I finish the NT obviously first is not so clear, but current thoughts are to always have one bookmark working through the NT, one in the 'poetic' books of the OT, and the last (currently my middle bookmark) working through the everything else.

Previous attempts to get through the Bible have always been start at the beginning of both OT and NT and just plow through in order. This has always ended in failure fairly early on, disappointingly. I suspect my semi-random selection will take me around those books that have stopped previous attempts to get through the Bible, but I do hope to make it this time. (it does help that one of the podcasted sermons I listen to bas been going through those 'hard' books and making them quite interesting )

[Ashley]

It's also a rather nice divine coincidence that there are 31 proverbs--one a day for each month! I'd suggest that to anyone who feels too rushed to have a devotional plan.

[mitsuki lover]

My plan is to do what I do every year and have no plan.I find that when you try to read the Bible using a planned method that sooner or later something happens.Something always does.So instead I plan to do the unplanned method and read whatever passage I come to first.That and being completely lazy.

[Jaltus-bot]

Most of the time I plan on a reading but not a schedule. I'm more likely to get it done and I don't get behind.

[freerock1]

I got a new study Bible for Christmas and it has a special 1-year themed study, so I'll probably be mostly reading that. My church is having a corporate read-through this year, so there will probably be quite a few people I know reading through the whole Bible. I read through the Bible a few years ago (to be honest I got a little lost about Jeremiah so I might have skipped a couple chapters , but I think I got the entire Bible read).

Now I usually prefer to read through it a little more slowly, taking time to reflect and make notes. But I think reading through the whole Bible in a year was good for me. Of course it increased my knowledge of Scripture, but I think it also helped me become disciplined to make regular reading and study a part of my life.

[Mave]

This is excellent! The only sticky part right now is I'm going backwards on the Old Testament. I've tried it from the beginning and it doesn't work as well. Hehe. But I like the plansand want to link this.