Read the Bible in a Year With Makeup Days 2019

There are lots of means to read the Bible in a year, and I won't try to capture all of them. But here are numerous options, in no item order. You lot may want to look through it and meet what y'all recall would piece of work best for you.

First off, if you're not persuaded that having a programme is necessary and biblical in some sense, then here'southward a helpful piece from John Piper, written in 1984.

Stephen Witmer has a helpful introduction—on the weaknesses of typical plans and some advice on reading the Bible together with others—as well every bit offering his ain new two-twelvemonth plan.

George Guthrie has a very helpful Read the Bible for Life Chronological Bible Reading Plan. (I'll take more to say later virtually Guthrie's new volume, Read the Bible for Life, and the church-wide campaign to promote biblical literacy. It's really worth picking up.)

The Gospel Coalition'southward For the Love of God Blog takes yous through the One thousand'Cheyne reading plan, with a meditation each twenty-four hours by D. A. Carson related to one of the readings.

The Bible Reading Program for Shirkers and Slackers (Pastor Andy Perry explains the plan and why he recommends information technology.)

Before I mention some of the ESV plans, here are a few other options that aren't i-year-plans per se:

Don Whitney has a simple just surprisingly effective tool: A Bible Reading Record. It's a list of every affiliate in the Bible, and you can bank check them off as you read them at whatever step you desire.

For the highly motivated and disciplined, Grant Horner's programme has you reading each solar day a chapter from x different places in the Bible. (Bob Kauflin read the whole Bible this way in five and a half months and explains why he likes this system a lot.)

Joe Carter and Fred Sanders explain James Gray'southward method of "How to Main the English Bible." My pastor, David Sunday, told me that "the program they recommend is, from my vantage betoken, the near productive way to read and to chief the Bible's contents (or more than importantly, to let the Bible master you!)."

There are ten Reading Plans for ESV Editions, and the nice things is the way in which Crossway has made them accessible in multiple formats:

• web (a new reading each twenty-four hours appears online at the same link)
• RSS (subscribe to receive past RSS)
• podcast (subscribe to get your daily reading in audio)
• iCal (download an iCalendar file)
• mobile (view a new reading each day on your mobile device)
• print (download a PDF of the whole plan)

Reading Plan	Format
Daily Reading Bible Daily Old Testament, New Testament, and Psalms	Web	RSS	iCal	Mobile	Print
Outreach Bible Daily Old Testament, Psalms, and New Attestation	Web	RSS	iCal	Mobile	Print
Outreach Bible New Testament Daily New Testament. Read through the New Testament in 6 months	Web	RSS	iCal	Mobile	Print
M'Cheyne One-Year Reading Program Daily One-time Attestation, New Testament, and Psalms or Gospels	Spider web	RSS	iCal	Mobile	Print
ESV Study Bible Daily Psalms or Wisdom Literature; Pentateuch or the History of Israel; Chronicles or Prophets; and Gospels or Epistles	Web	RSS	iCal	Mobile	Print
Literary Study Bible Daily Psalms or Wisdom Literature; Pentateuch or the History of Israel; Chronicles or Prophets; and Gospels or Epistles	Web	RSS	iCal	Mobile	Print
Every Day in the Give-and-take Daily Quondam Testament, New Testament, Psalms, Proverbs	Web	RSS	iCal	Mobile	Print
Through the Bible Daily Old Testament and New Testament	Web	RSS	iCal	Mobile	Print
Chronological Through the Bible chronologically (from Dorsum to the Bible)	Web	RSS	iCal	Mobile	Impress
Volume of Common Prayer Daily Office Daily Psalms, Sometime Attestation, New Testament, and Gospels	Spider web	RSS	iCal	Mobile	Print

You can also access each of these Reading Plans as podcasts:

• Right-click (Ctrl-click on a Mac) the "RSS" link of the feed y'all want from the above list.
• Cull "Copy Link Location" or "Copy Shortcut."
• Start iTunes.
• Cull Advanced > Subscribe to Podcast.
• Paste the URL from step three into the box.
• Click OK.

The unabridged Bible on audio is ordinarily well-nigh 75 hours (or 4500 minutes). If you lot commute to piece of work 5 days a calendar week, that's virtually 260 days a year. And if it takes you lot, say, 17 minutes to commute each style to piece of work—and if y'all heed to the Bible on audio during your drive each mode—you'll get through the entire Bible twice in a year. This probably isn't the only way to do Bible intake—but it's ane most of us should take advantage of more.

Here's some more than detail on these plans (some from Crossway, some from elsewhere).

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ESV Study Bible (The ESV Literary Study Bible contains the aforementioned plan)

With this plan at that place are four readings each day, divided into 4 main sections:

• Psalms and Wisdom Literature
• Pentateuch and the History of Israel
• Chronicles and Prophets
• Gospels and Epistles

The introduction explains:

In order to make the readings come up out evenly, four major books of the Bible are included twice in the schedule: the Psalms (the Bible's hymnal), Isaiah (the grandest of the OT prophets), Luke (one of the iv biblical Gospels), and Romans (the heart of the Bible's theology of salvation).The listing of readings from the Psalms and the Wisdom Literature begins and ends with special readings that are especially appropriate for the opening and closing of the year. The list of readings from the Pentateuch and the History of Israel proceeds canonically through the five books of Moses and then chronologically through the history of the OT, before closing the yr with the sufferings of Job. The list of readings from the Chronicles and the Prophets begins with the Chronicler's history of the people of God from Adam through the exile, followed by the Major and Minor Prophets, which are organized chronologically rather than canonically.

You can print out this PDF, which is designed to be cut into four bookmarks that tin can be placed at the appropriate place in your Bible reading. There are boxes to check off each reading equally you complete it.

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Thousand'Cheyne One-Twelvemonth Reading Plan

With this plan you read through:

• the NT twice
• the Psalms twice
• the residue of the OT in one case

The programme begins with the four great ancestry or "births" of Scripture: Genesis i (commencement of the world), Ezra one (rebirth of Israel after her return from Babylonian exile), Matthew ane (nativity of the Messiah), Acts ane (birth of the body of Christ). John Stott says of this reading schedule: "Nothing has helped me more to gain an overview of the Bible, and and then of God's redemptive plan."

If you go with this route, I'd recommend D.A. Carson's For the Love of God (vol. 1 and vol. 2 are available–vols. iii and iv are forthcoming). Carson'south introduction and preface—which includes a layout of the calendar—are bachelor for gratis online.

Since there are 4 readings each day, it'south easy to alter this 1 and then that you read through the Bible one time in two years, past reading just the first two readings each day for the first year and the 2nd two readings each day for the 2d year.

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Hither's a program from NavPress, which is used each year at Bethlehem Baptist Church:

The Discipleship Periodical Reading Plan

With this program y'all read through the entire Bible in one case.

With this plan in that location are "take hold of-upwards" days:

• To prevent the frustration of falling backside, which most of us tend to exercise when post-obit a Bible reading plan, each month of this plan gives yous only 25 readings. Since you lot'll have several "free days" each month, you could set aside Sunday to either not read at all or to catch up on whatsoever readings you lot may accept missed in the past week.
• If you end the month's readings by the 20-5th, you lot could employ the final days of the month to written report passages that challenged or intrigued you.

Bethlehem makes available bookmarks that you tin place in the relevant parts of your Bible:

• Bookmarks for 1st half of the yr
• Bookmarks for 2nd half of the year

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The Journey Engage Scripture Reading Program

The Journey, an Acts 29 church building in St. Louis pastored by Darrin Patrick, is doing a church-wide reading plan this yr.

This programme has y'all read whole chapters (a feature I like):

• 1 New Testament chapter
• 2 Old Testament chapters

They also accept a couple of features designed to assistance those of us who accept problem persevering through a schedule like this: (1) there are lots of reflection/catch-up days; (2) they have pulled from the daily program some of the slower-paced, harder-to-understand books. These then get "Monthly Scripture Snapshots" that are to be speed-read, forth with online videos and overviews to put these books in context. Run into their website for more resource related to this plan.

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Source: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/justin-taylor/bible-reading-plans-3/

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