2024 Challenge: read through the Bible

Are you in?

  • Yes, and it’s the first time

    Votes: 4 66.7%

  • Yes, and I’ve done it before

    Votes: 2 33.3%

  • No, but I still wanted to vote

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    6
Just finished watching the 12/18 svc with Clint. I like his delivery, and I needed the message.
The production was similar to what they do at Cross Assembly.
 
svtf150 said:
Just finished watching the 12/18 svc with Clint. I like his delivery, and I needed the message.
The production was similar to what they do at Cross Assembly.
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Harris or Mallard Creek?

Glad to hear it. I really like his style. He grew up in the church, at least around high school age. Pastored some small churches and then came back to take some of the preaching load off our pastor. At that time there were five services (between the two campuses) on Sunday morning, plus whatever was going on Sunday and Wednesday evenings. Then he left again to be the senior pastor at a large church in Alabama. After our senior pastor retired (he was there 25+ years), Clint came back to be the head honcho.

We’ve cut back to three sermons on Sunday mornings. It was a heckuva load for one person to preach the same sermon five times in a row each Sunday morning. Clint doesn’t shy away from the Word. We go through books for a year or two, and nothing gets skipped.

He’s the chairman of the board of trustees for Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (in Louisville) and has also held positions in the Southern Baptist Convention.
 
I am not as tech savvy as @BigWaylon or the church either, but that's ok. Our videos are pretty simple. But it's all good. Here's the link to the church's Facebook page.

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Here’s the one I’m going to do…the whole Bible in 11 months and then an Advent schedule in December.

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i like this one. By chance do you know if this plan is in the Bible App. as you can see I don’t post much but do follow. It was this Time last year I read your post and decided to give it a try. I did the chronological plan. Happy to report I am on track. I find it easier to do on iPad.
 
OverKeel said:
i like this one. By chance do you know if this plan is in the Bible App. as you can see I don’t post much but do follow. It was this Time last year I read your post and decided to give it a try. I did the chronological plan. Happy to report I am on track. I find it easier to do on iPad.
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I wasn’t able to find it. I’ve used the YouVersion Bible app for a decade or so, and that’s where most of my plan completions are. But, for this one, I think I’ll have to use the Dwell Bible app. Our church has some kind of deal with them and the three plans are supposed to be in there. As of now, only the other two are…but I’ve been told this one will be by the 30th.
 
As we wrap this year up, here’s my request. Pick a plan and start it on 1/1. Doesn’t have to be a full year, and doesn’t have to be the whole Bible. Just be in the Word.

There are full year plans that do just the New Testament, or just the Old Testament. I saw a three year plan to get through the whole Bible. Any of those would be a commitment, but less daily reading.

Or start smaller. Pick a plan that’s just one book in a month. Then pick another. I saw one that was all of Paul’s letters. All kinds of options and resources out there for you to start somewhere…the key is to start.

You can do this.
 
My plan is to keep on going with the plan I'm using now till I'm finished.
Then I can decide what my next approach is gonna be.
 
I think I’m gonna change my plan for 2023. The one I wanted to do still isn’t showing in the Dwell app, so I’ll continue to use YouVersion. I picked this one out to start tomorrow:

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You know how you finish for the year? You start. Today. You got this!!
 
So it turns out the plan I wanted to do is in the Dwell app. It’s just not in there as a “complete Bible” or “365-Day” plan. There are actually twelve different plans to go through. The whole Bible Jan-Nov, and then an advent plan in December. Looks like this in the app:

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Got started this morning before getting out of bed. It helped that we aren’t doing Sunday School/Bible study/small groups/whatever your church calls them today (and didn’t last week) to give everybody a break.

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As an example, here was part of today’s. As you scroll down through Ch1, it just continues on to Ch2:

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Alright…let’s check in. Who started a plan of some kind yesterday?
 
My family and I just found our church home a few months ago. I actually committed to read the Bible through this year at service yesterday…. I log on to CFF this morning and see this thread. Gotta love it.

I’ve read the whole Bible before, but it’s been quite awhile since I dedicated myself to reading it in it’s entirety.
Happy New Year everyone.
 
As stated earlier, I'm continuing on with the schedule I started last year.
But I made a change yesterday.
Moving forward my bible reading/study will be done first thing in the morning.
Well, maybe second thing, after making a cup o' joe!
I first had this thought a couple weeks ago, then again last week. Then,
yesterday, the pastor made the remark,
"If you want to be in the word, and live in the word, start your day with the word.
Before anything, anything else."
Bam! There ya go.
I guess the Lord putting the thought in my head wasn't enough, I had to hear it audibly before it rung my bell.

It's easy to do now being out of work so I need to build this habit with some resolve and determination so when I do get back on a regular work schedule this will not suffer.
I wish everyone success in accomplishing your goal for the year.
 
svtf150 said:
As stated earlier, I'm continuing on with the schedule I started last year.
But I made a change yesterday.
Moving forward my bible reading/study will be done first thing in the morning.
Well, maybe second thing, after making a cup o' joe!
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I often do it before even getting out of the bed. Granted, I don’t drink coffee…so I don’t wake up with that desire. 😎
 
Just thought I’d check in on Day 5. Plenty of time to get caught up if you haven’t started yet.

Don’t get too concerned with a whole Bible plan. Just pick something, and be in the Word every day in ‘23.
 
I be moving right along with it.
Also reading a David Jeremiah book I was given.
And trying to consume from other sources as well.
I'm all up in some word this week.

And it's surprising to me that all of a sudden it seems the more I consume the more I'm craving. That's a first.
Something may have changed. In me. Praise be to God!!
 
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Genesis is done. Moving on to Exodus.

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On thing that strikes me as odd in the last chapters of Genesis, is you never really get Jacob asking any of his sons about why they lied about Joseph being killed. Not sure I’d ever really thought about that not being in the scripture before. They come back from Egypt, tell Jacob his son/their brother is alive, and it’s just accepted without any real questioning.
 
So I started a bit late as the bookstore at our church was out of The One Year Bible the first Sunday of the year. My family was sick last weekend, so we watched the service online together, however I didn't get to pick up my OYB. I was reading just not "on a plan". I picked up my copy yesterday and I have been playing catch up since. I'm up to January 10th (Gernesis 23:1-24:51 & Mathew 8:1-17). I'm taking time between each day's section to reflect and absorb the teachings. I'm really liking this format, each day as a passage from OT, NT, Psalm and Proverbs.

I just wanted to pop in here for accountability, and to bump the thread. I hope everyone is staying on track, enjoying and getting what they need from The Word.
 
Finished up Numbers today. The Feb plan for me included wrapping up Job, then reading Leviticus, Hebrews and Numbers. I’ll start Psalms tomorrow. Looks like it only goes through 41 in March, then I get Matthew and Deuternomy, and start Joshua.
 
~75 days into the year…

How’s everybody doing?
 
Since this plan has two catch-up days allocated at the end of each month, I finished up yesterday.

March started with a little of Psalms, followed by Matthew, Deuteronomy and Joshua.

April gives me Judges, Ruth, 1&2 Samuel…and starts into 1 Kings.
 
I'm actually doing two plans, One with OT, NT, Psalm, and Proverbs every day and one chronological.

David has been anointed king, but has not taken the throne yet. The chronological plan is my favorite an I have used it before. I think I linked the Bible I use earlier, if you want to know what it is, I'll gladly share it with you.

But I'm also enjoying the little bit from here and there version as well, been a long time since I've read it that way.
 
Ponzerite said:
I'm actually doing two plans, One with OT, NT, Psalm, and Proverbs every day and one chronological.

David has been anointed king, but has not taken the throne yet. The chronological plan is my favorite an I have used it before. I think I linked the Bible I use earlier, if you want to know what it is, I'll gladly share it with you.

But I'm also enjoying the little bit from here and there version as well, been a long time since I've read it that way.
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Opened my Dwell app first thing this morning and thought something was wrong with it…as there wasn’t a reading showing for today. Then I remembered this plan has two catch-up days at the end of each month. So I spent more time working on my lesson out of John 18:1-11 for tomorrow. New month starts on Monday.
 
Wrapped up the May plan yesterday, which included:

• finishing 1 Kings, then all of 2 Kings
• Psalm 42-72
• Mark
• Song of Solomon
• Proverbs
• started Ecclesiastes

Pretty good mix for the month.
 
June plan is done…

• finished Ecclesiastes
• 1 & 2 Chronicles
• Amos
• Jonah
• Micah
• Hosea
• started Isaiah


I hope everybody is in the Word each day…
 
Finished July yesterday…

• finished Isaiah on the 15th
• Psalms 73-106
• Nahum & Zephaniah (one day each)
• Luke 1-18

Anybody else have an update?
 
I am reading chronologically. The one drawback is there are times I feel like I am reading the same thing over again.

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brobb25 said:
I am reading chronologically. The one drawback is there are times I feel like I am reading the same thing over again.

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The Chronological version I use, combines or harmonizes those things that are repeated. That's one reason I haven't responded to the how far are you questions. I'm on track, a few days ahead actually. Tomorrow I'm in Jeremiah 36, been through that many of the kings and so forth, read Amos in there. I really like this arrangement, putting things in order and connecting the kings and prophets together. This one reads like a story and I get a better sense of the history and how things connect. I have used this particular one for several years.

The other schedule I'm on has a reading from the Old Testament, some from the New, some from Psalms, and a few verses from Proverbs. In that one, I feel like I am reading some of the same things over. Both Kings and Chronicles have some of the same information, and then some of the prophets talk about those things as well. Tomorrow I'm finishing Nehemiah and starting Esther, finish Acts 27, Psalm 86, and in Proverbs 16. I've especially enjoyed the Psalms and Proverbs in this arrangement.
 
No update here cause stalled out.
 
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