God is not hiding from us. For most of us in the western world, God’s revealing of salvation from death, how to live, and the nature of existence is laying all over our houses often little touched in the Bible. This absolutely original book written by 40 different authors over 1500 years in 66 different separate chapters is God’s Word of revelation to us. There never has been anything else like it in the world. Its revelation and timing is so unique it could never be made again.

A common way of studying the Bible is with a reading plan giving a section of the Bible to read each day. A lot of us, however, struggle with these plans. We start off in Genesis January 1^st and quit reading in Leviticus or Deuteronomy sometime between February and April. This is often because:

• We lose perspective and disconnect from the New Covenant when we don’t hear from the New Testament until September.
• Life catches us. We get behind. So far behind we don’t think we can catch up and quit.
• We find a part of the Bible particularly intriguing and get sidetracked, and we don’t have time to get back on course.
• We’re stubborn and don’t like someone else telling us what to read each day.

These are all reasons why I have often not read through the Bible during the year. I find they are true for a lot of us. Plus I know what it is like to be busy. I have a job that covers a good chunk of America’s geography, have seven children, a part time ministry, and a historic house always in need of repair amongst other things.

This is the Bible reading approach that I use to get around these common problems with three simple focuses spending about 30 minutes a day on it:

• The plan switches between Gospels, Epistles, Prophets, and Wisdom Literature in a way that keeps the overall big pictures of God’s redeeming story. All scripture is inspired by God but all of it is not of equal importance. That is why we don’t just read through the Bible once, but we try to read through the New Testament and parts of the Old Testament including Psalms and Proverbs twice.
• We provide reading and listening time estimates for you can plan according to your weeks schedule (one day you may have an hour and the next just 15 minutes). We also encourage listening to the Bible read when that fits our schedule and activities best.
• There are four extra weeks built in to catch up or investigate special interests.

One of the absolute key ways to know God is read what he has already revealed about himself in his Word. The enemy of our souls and spirit of the age would love few things more than to keep us from it.

December 2024

Sunday December 1st – Saturday December 7^th
 1 Peter (30 minutes Read Time, 12 minutes to Listen Time), 2 Peter (30 minutes Read Time, 12 minutes to Listen Time)   Thessalonians (30 minute Read Time 12 minute Listen Time),  2 Thessalonians (30 minute Read Time 6 minute Listen Time)  Colossians (35 minute Read Time, 20 minute Listen Time) 1 Hour Catch Up Time!

Sunday December 8^th – Saturday December 14^th
1 Timothy (30 minutes Read Time, 12 minutes to Listen Time) & 2 Timothy (30 minutes Read Time, 12 minutes to Listen Time), Titus (30 minutes Read Time, 12 minutes to Listen Time), Philemon (30 minutes Read Time, 12 minutes to Listen Time) 30 Minutes Catch Up Time!

Sunday December 15^th – Saturday December 21st
Luke (3hr 45 Read Time, 2hr 30m Listen Time)

Sunday December 22nd – Saturday December 28th
3hr 30m Catch Up Week!