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My Bible Reading Plan for 2012.

New Year is a brilliant time of the year. Each and every new year is a new opportunity to wipe the slate clean, to set new goals and to dream new dreams, to take stock of what has passed and to set your trajectory for what lies ahead. 

 

One of my great joys is to work out what my bible-reading plan is going to look like for the next year; what parts of the bible I'm going to focus on and how I'm going to go about getting God's word into me.  

 

Over the last few years, I've stumbled across two approaches to bible-reading which have really helped me, and which I've chosen to pursue; for the mean time anyway.

 

Firstly there's NewThu30. First developed by Evelation Church in Charlotte, NC, NewThru30 a bible reading plan in which you read the New Testament in 30 days. It works out to be about 15 chapters a day, but the great part of it is that there are breaks or 'grace days' built into the reading plan so even if you fall behind, you get the chance to catch up again. Some of us took the NewThru30, and expanded it into NewThru90: reading the New Testament in 90 days. Reading 15 chapters a day, means that you don’t get to wrestle with each and every verse, but you do get to drench yourself in the Scriptures. Each January for the last two years, I've started the year with NewThru30, to start off the year 'soaking' myself in the New Testament, which has been a great way to start the year.

 

Secondly, there's camping in one book of the bible for a prolonged period of time. Two years ago, I spent 6 weeks studying the book of Galatians and then 8 months on the book of Isaiah. Last year I spent 6 weeks on the book of Philippians. Each time I've used the BST (Bible Speaks Today) commentary series to help me in my devotional studies of these books and so I've decided that this year I want to do that again. This year I'm going to focus on Jeremiah and Matthew’s gospel for my prolonged bible-study times. Jeremiah, because I don’t really know enough about the book of Jeremiah, and Matthew because its full of so much difficult theology to grapple with.

 

That being said: here is my proposed bible reading plan for 2012.

 

January:                                      NewThru30

February - April:                         Jeremiah

May:               1 & 2 Samual

June:                                           2x Minor Prophet Books

July - September:                       NewThru90

October - December:                 Matthew

 

Here's to 2012 and God speaking to me, shaping me, challenging me and sanctifying me through his word...