by AG
Over the past year, I have read numerous places about the importance of reading the bible cover-to-cover. It’s a daunting undertaking I know, but as I mentioned in my most recent post, it’s one I am going to challenge myself to follow through on.
There are many ways some one could go about this, as there is virtually hundreds of ways in which you could divide up the chapters and go through it. If you are an tech-geek like me, then YouVersion (www.yourversion.com) might interest you. YouVersion offers an online version of the bible in almost all major translations as well as 31-different reading plans that you could choose from (some just cover pieces of scripture, like the Gospels, others plans offer a guide through the whole thing). It provides a way to check off each day’s reading, tag, journal, and bookmark them.
If everyday reading seems like it could be too much, then you might check out the new plan released by Journey Church in Denver, called Engage. This plan offers the reader every 4th day off, which might be very appealing to some. They also are offering some videos to supplement the readings as well.
For me, this is not the first time I’ve started down this road. I’ve tried this a few times in the past, but I can tell there exists a new passion to know the Word, especially the Old Testament, inside of me. So I am putting it out there for anyone to keep my accountable here.
And if publically blogging about it enough, I read the following quote in the book Primal, that I just finished a few weeks ago from a present-day theologian:
“Any Christian worth his salt ought to read the Bible from cover-to-cover every year.” – J.I. Packer
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