Why can't I do this? Because I am too lazy to really saturate myself with God's Word. Watch this guy recite Hebrews 9-10 from memory giving it sense. It's like watching Paul (or Apollos) preach.
HT: barwal1 on Stumble
By now most of the people I know who started to read through the Bible in a year have rationalized their way to some other plan. Well thanks to the ESV people you can get a fresh start mid-year. Read about it here on the ESV blog.
You can now set up the ESV site (and thus the RSS feeds and API) to treat any day as January 1 by adding a
start-dateparameter to the URL. For example:These URLs show you the Chronological Reading Plan, with the year starting today, July 11, 2007, and ending next July 9. (Using
start-dateignores leap days.)There’s no user-interface yet to access this time-shifting ability.
(Robert finds a few other plans in a later post.)
Did you realize that the Old Testament is arranged differently in Hebrew Bibles? This is one way to think about your Bible reading in a fresh way. Why not read through the Old Testament in this order next time. It might just break your Bible reading rut.
HT: Darrin Brooker
HT: Generations of Grace
And, borrowing from his comment thread, here is the Hebrew order:
| Torah (Instruction) Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numbers Deuteronomy | Nebi’im (Prophets) (Former Prophets) Joshua Judges 1-2 Samuel 1-2 Kings (Latter Prophets) Isaiah Jeremiah Ezekiel (The Twelve) Hosea Joel Amos Obadiah Jonah Micah Nahum Habakkuk Zephaniah Haggai Zechariah Malachi | Ketubim (Writings) Psalms Job Proverbs Ruth Songs Qoheleth (Ecclesiastes) Lamentations Esther Daniel Ezra-Nehemiah 1-2 Chronicles |
Has your Bible reading crashed yet? Most of us get lost by mid-January. "Poor discipline. I'm a bad christian. Maybe next year." Not all of us can do mechanical reading plans. Is there a more creative and human way to do it? Noel Piper shares her new approach in this article from Desiring God.
What made this attempt different? I'm certain God's Spirit provided the inspiration, because I was the same stumbling Christian I have always been. But I did decide to take a more creative approach to my "walk through the Word."She shares some good points. But I like is her last one best. She made her Bible reading a hunt for God.
This time, I became a hunter, and my blue highlighter was my weapon. The prey was God's attributes. I set out to underline everything the Bible says about God (didn't want to set my sights too narrow!). I made blue stripes through all the names of God, word pictures about him, what he likes and dislikes, how he reacts to faithfulness and to sin. I was on my third pen when I finished. This "hunt for God" was irresistible to me. It drew me like a magnet. And once I was inside the pages, it kept my mind moving-no more drowsing and waking up two chapters later.
