there's this really cool website (bibleinayear.org) that helps you to read throught the Bible in a year by emailing you your daily scriptures. i've been with the program for probably almost five months. honestly, i haven't even read half of the emails, just delete them when i know i'm not going to get to it. but right now, it's starting to get interesting.
i chose the format to be chronological, and right now i'm up to david. the reason it's neat is that the psalms he wrote are more in context, so i see the surrounding circumstances for each song/poem. i can read the third-person historical account, and the next day get up close to david's heart.
check it out, and don't guilt trip yourself if you skip it some (or most) days... i just move on when i get the motivation.
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Thanks for the great idea. i signed up for it b/c I thought it might be a good way to read the Bible in my free time at work. So far I have already deleted the first two without reading them. It was a nice thought.
I have read through the bible several times now, and absolutely love reading it. It wasn't always so however.
In the beginning (no pun intended ;-D) I found that one of the reasons it wasn't really that interesting was because I didn't really believe it. These guys were practically cave men, and everytime I read something that disagreed with my world view or scientific opinion, I presumed myself to be right, and the text to be wrong. The bible remained therefore, just a wordy book, with some interesting parts, but nothing more.
A Christian challenged me one day to pray every time I read the bible - and as God to teach it to me, since the bible says that natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for their are foolishness to him, nor can he know them because they are spiritually discerned (1 Corinthians 2:14). He challenged me to think through what I had been doing in the past. By setting myself up as the editor and corrector of the bible - I was deciding what was true and what was false. If what I was reading agreed with my conscience or experience, I believed it - and if what I was reading was too convicting, or went against what I had been taught in school - I didn't believe it. By doing that I removed all the authority of scripture - that is, the bible had no authority except whatever I chose to give it. The challenge was to lay aside my own authority, and read the bible believing every word of it.
It was only when I began to believe it all, that any of it made sense - and as soon as I did, it was an entirely different book - full of life, tremendously interesting. What had been a chore in the past became a daily delight!
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