Bible Reading Plan for 2006

I have found a number of others who are following a Bible Reading plan on their blog as a way of motivating themselves. As I am the worlds worst at regular activity I usually struggle with a reading plan, so I am going to be open and vulnerable about this.

I therefore ask you to be kind, but maybe consider checking that I am doing this. I doubt if I will get around to posting much about the readings but I will try to at list tick them off with a blog post.

There are many potential Bible Reading plans. I have limited my choice to the ones that read the whole Bible in a year. Others have done all the hard work on this so to see the options go to CoffeeSwirls � Bible Reading Plans, Daily Reading Plans, ryan::wentzel � Bible Reading Plans, Crandalls.net: Resolutions and of course the  One Year Bible Blog.

In the end I have decided to go with The Original Discipleship Journal® Bible Reading Plan as I like the way it only schedules 25 days a month which means I can follow the lectionary on Sundays (OK Feb is going to be a squeeze).

My main translation will be the TNIV, but I want to also read most passages in my new (Christmas present) Message Bible and the New Testament readings in the Source (a great translation especially with the full notes see Better Bibles Blog: The Source New Testament (TSNT) and Better Bibles Blog: Meet a translator ... Ann Nyland (TSNT) for more details).

By the way I found a lot of these sites by checking one of the referrer links for 42 which was Blog Search: bible.

Comments

[John]

I heartily recommend this reading plan, which I read through three times the first three years after I became a Christian.

[Tim Chesterton]

David, if you're not good at this, aren't you setting yourself up for failure by committing yourself to reading at least some of your passages in three different translations? Are you making the perfect the enemy of the possible? Just wondering.

For what it's worth, I like the 'One Year Bible' with the reservation that I'm not entirely happy about the way Proverbs is chopped up to run through the year.

Tim

[Juice]

John,

That's the same version I recommend in the crandalls.net post that Dave mentioned. I find it very helpful.

JUstin

[DaveW]

Tim,

I do not expect to read more than one version each day. However, after the huge experience of two days worth I am very excited to discover how starting with the easy reading Message encourages me deeper into the text and hence to other versions. After going back to this mornings readings to write up the blog entry my desk is currently filled with 8 translations as starting with the Message raised lots of questions.

I promise not to beat myself up on days when I read only one version ;-) But please keep up the pressure!