{"id":886,"date":"2021-01-02T11:09:23","date_gmt":"2021-01-02T17:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/?p=886"},"modified":"2022-02-22T20:49:31","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T02:49:31","slug":"bible-reading-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/bible-reading-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Bible Reading Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Do you want to read through the Bible in a year? Or maybe you want to read the Bible daily, but you want to move through it more slowly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"788\" src=\"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Bible-Reading-Plans-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-891\" srcset=\"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Bible-Reading-Plans-1.png 940w, http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Bible-Reading-Plans-1-300x251.png 300w, http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Bible-Reading-Plans-1-768x644.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Justin Taylor points out that it takes the average person less than 10 minutes a day to read the entire Bible in one year. He also reminds us that Bible reading is not merely one more thing to check off our to-do list. His article includes analyses of several Bible reading plans and is a good place to start:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/justintaylor\/2013\/12\/26\/how-to-read-the-whole-bible-in-2014\/\">http:\/\/thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/justintaylor\/2013\/12\/26\/how-to-read-the-whole-bible-in-2014\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This post from Ligonier Ministries has a good round-up of 14 different Bible-reading plans:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ligonier.org\/blog\/bible-reading-plans\/\">http:\/\/www.ligonier.org\/blog\/bible-reading-plans\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this must-read article, Stephen Witmer discusses the pros and cons of Bible reading plans. One aspect he considers is the fragmented nature of reading 3-4 books of the Bible at the same time; I\u2019ve always found that a bit frustrating. He designed a plan for his church to read through the entire Bible one book at a time (plus Psalms or Proverbs each day) in two years rather than a single year:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/tgc\/2010\/12\/29\/two-year-bible-reading-plan\/\">http:\/\/thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/tgc\/2010\/12\/29\/two-year-bible-reading-plan\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have sometimes used Robert Murray M\u2019Cheyne\u2019s plan, in which you read the Old Testament once and the New Testament and Psalms twice per year (about 4 chapters a day from different parts of the Bible). This site provides printables for M\u2019Cheyne\u2019s plan and Don Carson\u2019s variation, which spreads out the same readings over two years:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edginet.org\/mcheyne\/printables.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/www.edginet.org\/mcheyne\/printables.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you prefer to use a Bible that\u2019s already divided into daily readings rather than keeping track with a bookmark or other printable, here are two that I\u2019ve enjoyed using:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The One-Year Bible<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2X0AHBY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/amzn.to\/2X0AHBY<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><em>The Narrated Bible in Chronological Order<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3hBfhVg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/amzn.to\/3hBfhVg<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ultimately, the plan we choose for reading through the Bible\u2014at any pace\u2014is not as important as simply doing the reading. Some years I\u2019ve been very consistent; other years I\u2019ve gotten woefully behind. Will you join me in making daily Bible reading a priority this year?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you want to read through the Bible in a year? Or maybe you want to read the Bible daily, but you want to move through it more slowly. Justin Taylor points out that it takes the average person less than 10 minutes a day to read the entire Bible in one year. He also &#8230; <a title=\"Bible Reading Plans\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/bible-reading-plans\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Bible Reading Plans\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}