Month: December 2019

I’ve decided to read through the bible using Plan C.
When you get right down to it Plan C isn’t really an elaborate scheme. As plans go it’s hardly a plan at all.
It’s this. I start reading Genesis 1 on January 1 and keep reading until I get to Revelation 22 on the last day of the year. I read through in just the same way I’d read through other books, starting on page one and turning pages.
There’s a pretty good online site called Heartlight with a detailed – and ominous-looking – Plan C-type readers’ guide – 365 entries with today’s date and today’s chapters listed in bible table-of-contents order. The link is called Straight Through.
Plan C is no better than any other plan. Each is different, and different isn’t better.  All of them are just finding ways to organize my 365 days in 2020 so that in the end I’ve read all 1189 chapters.

Notes:
Heartlight
https://www.heartlight.org/devotionals/reading_plans/index.html

If I decide to read more than one verse a day, there’s a pretty nice online reading plan called Biblica. They have a Bible in a Year: 365-Day Reading Plan. Every day you read sections from the Old Testament, the New Testament, and Psalms or Proverbs. For example, today – December 6 – we’re on the 340th day of the year. The 340th day’s readings are in Haggai, 2 John, and Proverbs. You can choose a version of the bible you like and read it right there on the Biblica page.
Gideons is another combination plan: two readings a day – one from the Old Testament, one from the New Testament. Completely different content than Biblica – Gideons December 6 readings are in Daniel and 1 John. There’s a calendar of daily readings on the front page to track your progress.
Two blended-reading plans. I like both of them.

Notes:
Biblica – The International Bible Society: https://www.biblica.com/resources/reading-plans/
Gideons International: https://www.gideons.org/read-the-bible

Yesterday I mentioned a guy who had a bible reading plan. It was to read one verse a day. It seemed like a pretty good thing to me that the guy had a plan and was working it.
I was curious enough about it to run a couple of numbers to see how long it would take to get through the bible by reading at that rate.
There are more than 31,000 verses in the bible, so I calculated that at 365 verses per year it would take a little over 85 years to read through the whole book, one verse per day. So if I did want to read the whole bible I would have to start when I was young – probably no older than ten – and I would hope that medical and health technologies advanced rapidly enough that I lived ninety-five years. At which point I would get to Revelation 22.

I heard about a guy whose personal bible reading plan was to read one verse a day.
One of the Medicine Hat Joe Bible Readers’ Principles is that one verse a day is better than no verses a day. Way better; hands down better. The difference between one verse a day and no verses a day is monumental. By contrast, the difference between one verse a day and, let’s say ten verses a day, or three chapters a day is not that big.
Anyway,  I’ve already made my decision to read some verses versus no verses. Now here’s the less important question to ask: how many verses am I going to read? Will I read one or more than one?