Happy New Year! The number 1 Christian New Year’s Resolution is to read the Bible more. Here are 4 reasons from 2 Timothy 3:14-17 why it’s a good resolution: 1) v14 Christianity is all about remembering and continuing; 2) v15 The Word is God’s Power for Saving People; 3) v16 All Scripture is breathed out by God; 4) vv16-17 The Bible is useful for all of life. Below are some resources to help you read it, remember it and pray it.
Read It
- Have a plan, stick to it!
- DMDC – Read the Bible in a year
- Youversion and BibleGateway have a stack of different reading plans
- Robert Murray M’Cheyne’s daily Bible reading – various forms of delivery
- Free Don Carson Devotional via blog or email or RSS – based on McCheyne plan
- Free Audio – NIV OT MP3s; NIV NT MP3s (put this or this into iTunes to automatically download as a podcast)
- Read on your phone – ESV Bible App; youversion; logos; avery bible; no need for iphone – esv; biblegateway (stacks of versions)
- Daily Reading Bible – the small booklets from Matthias Media are GOLD!
- Quiet Times – these are a great resource for teenagers from Youth Surge
- Read with your family
- Kids Bibles – The Big Picture Story Bible and The Jesus Storybook Bible
Remember It
- Navigators topical memory system (you can buy their cards or make your own based on their verses)
- Fighter Verses are a verses from Bethlehem church in the USA. Do them the same speed as their church or go through the archives. Why Memorise Scripture? – by John Piper. How do you memorise scripture? – by John Piper
- Forever Grateful Music – Scripture Memory Songs by Mark Altrogge
- Boom Chicka Boom – this is a 30 track Bible Bonanza from Col Buchanan. You don’t have to be a kid to utilise Col’s memory verse songs!!
- Extreme Memory Verses (PDF) – this is an approach to memorising large chunks of scripture.
Pray It
- Pray in response to the verses you read
- Pray in response to the verses you remember
- Don’t close your Bible when you pray, but let the priorities of the Bible shape your priorities in prayer.
- A Call to Spiritual Reformation – a good book by Don Carson showing Paul’s priorities in prayer
- Summary of Paul’s prayers from Carson’s book – PDF (h/t Dave Rogers)
Hey, good resources. I’ve checked a few out. I’ve signed up for the Don Carson one but (call me lazy), the only annoying thing about it is that it only emails the commentary to you, not the bible passages. It tells you the references but then you need to separately look them up. WHat would be great is a resource where the whole thing is emailed to you because that is the convenience of it – i.e. having it emailed to you and making it as easy as possible to read. The Biblegateway one seems to email the whole passage to you but then doesn’t have the helpful little Carson commentary.
Also, Mrs M was asking what is a good one for the iPhone which doesn’t require email notifications (she doesn’t have email on the iPhone) but still pops up with a reading daily.
Any thoughts?
Hey man.
Maybe you get two emails? Get mccheyne passages emailed, and then also read carsons comments which correspond with mccheyne’s break up?
I’ve been downloading all the iPhone bible apps on the bus this morning, I haven’t found one that does what mrs m wants, but will keep trying and let you know!
Peaceout amigo
hey man – have a look on the table in this blog post:
http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/justintaylor/2010/12/31/bible-reading-plans-3/
i think the iCal ones might work for Mrs M.
let me know how you go.
peaceout
OK, I think I’ve figured out my system. Don Carson emailed to me daily with his commentary, then just bookmark the one of the M’Cheyne sites which automatically has updated links each day to that day’s 4 passages. It doesn’t arrive by email – need to actually go to the site – but it’s still a convenient link without having to enter in the passage numbers etc. Would be good if it could be all be linked up to in the one email, but this is a pretty good second best option.
Haven’t worked out the Mrs M option yet …
one other option would be to get the RSS feed for the mccheyne, and then search for some converter “RSS to email” – have a look in google, there should be something that can easily do it. peaceout. delight in the word!
We defitinely need more smart people like you around.
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