You Can Read Through The Bible!
Resources for beginning a Daily Bible Reading program.
God’s Word (the Bible) is incredibly powerful, just on it’s own, to change your life and transform your relationships, both with God and other people.
If you will give God only a few minutes a day to read His Word, He will do wonderful things in your life!
Here is some excellent advice for following a Daily Bible Reading plan:
- Set aside a specific TIME and PLACE for enjoying your daily Bible reading. Get a time and place that works for you, that you can stick with: morning time on your back deck, lunch break in your cubicle, in your bed just before lights out, with your spouse or roommate after dinner, etc.
- Make your Daily Bible Reading a joy, not a job. Read for delight, not duty. Read for happiness in the Lord, not “have to” for the Lord. Don’t read to know about God, but to know God. Take a portion of each day’s reading (a paragraph, a verse, a phrase) and engage your heart with it, meditate on it...use the text to know and enjoy God.
- Keep moving forward when you fall behind. If you fall behind in your reading, whether you’re a day behind or a week behind, don’t try to make up for your missed readings. Instead, simply pick up with today’s reading.
- Talk about and apply your discoveries. Tell other people about what you’re discovering and learning through your reading. Apply what you’re learning. Take action. Be a “doer” of the word, not just a “reader.”
- Major in the text, minor in notes. If you’re using one of the many Study Bibles for your Daily Bible Reading, don’t let the study notes pull your attention away from the biblical text. Major in the text, minor in the study notes.
(copied by permission. Pastor Justin Buzzard, Twenties Pastor,
Central Peninsula Church, San Mateo, CA.)
Follow these links to find a reading plan that fits you!
Navigators / Discipleship Journal / NavPress
The Navigators have emphasized Bible reading for years. They have perhaps the best plan: Discipleship Journal Reading Plan. It is the final choice on this webpage. You can download it and print it yourself.
Biblegateway.com
This is probably the most popular Bible website. They have many translations, verse look-up, searches, etc. They also offer a variety of Bible reading plans.
International Bible Society
This site will create a custom Bible reading plan for you.
HeartLight
This website has a variety of resources for Christian living. They list several reading plans and all can be downloaded and printed.
Bible Reading Plan
This is a simple site. There is a wide variety of plans to choose from, depending on how fast you want to read through the Bible.