Bible reading plans
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A personal copy of the whole Bible at home, thanks to the work of the Protestant Reformers.
Don’t ignore it. Read it. Every day.
Through it, God will make you more like Jesus.”
(Gabriel Hughes)
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A personal copy of the whole Bible at home, thanks to the work of the Protestant Reformers.
Don’t ignore it. Read it. Every day.
Through it, God will make you more like Jesus.”
(Gabriel Hughes)
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quietthinker
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One text read and understood is of more value than having read the whole bible and not understood.“To grow in the knowledge of God and to live in light of His truth, it’s important that we set aside focused time to study his Word.
As you consider your Bible study plans for the year ahead, explore more than 20 reading plans that can help you meditate on the Scriptures often.”
Bible Reading Plans for 2025
Explore various Bible reading plans designed to help you prioritize abiding in God's Word.www.ligonier.org
Do you use a Bible reading plan? If you do, have you selected one for the coming year? If you have, which plan will you be following?
Knowledge is greater than cognitive information.
quietthinker
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“God wants to communicate with you in the 21st century. He wrote His message in a book. He asks you to come and study that book for three compelling reasons: it’s essential for growth. It’s essential for maturity. It’s essential for equipping you, training you, so that you might be an available, clean, sharp instrument in His hands to accomplish His purposes.
So the real question confronting you now is: How can you afford not to be in God’s Word?”
(Howard Hendricks)
So the real question confronting you now is: How can you afford not to be in God’s Word?”
(Howard Hendricks)
quietthinker
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I like Spurgeon's quote. I guess it depends on how one see's what is said. 'Habitually' does not mean putting the scripture into a strait jacket of ritual whereas 'reading plan' sounds regimented and undeviating.
Religion loves 'reading plans', loves regimentation, loves control, loves rules, loves that carnal certainty. It loves it because it doesn't/ can't see the world of faith, of trust and security.
I find comfort in Jesus words, 'why worry, look at the birds of the air and the lilies of the field...' It gives me a 'ride easy in the saddle' angle....but ride.
God is present, closer than our breath. Being on-goingly conscious of it shifts everything.
Reading plans have advantages and disadvantages.
Robert Murray McCheyne on the Dangers and Advantages of a Daily Bible Reading Plan
Every wise and seasoned Christian leader I have ever heard has told me the same thing: You need the daily discipline of getting up early and reading the Bible and praying for an hour. I do not deny the wisdom of this advice, but I have often thought that we seek out a "one-size-fits-all"...
If someone finds that disadvantages outweigh the advantages then they won’t use one.
The purpose of this thread is to encourage people to regularly read the Bible. Statistically, Christians fail to do so.
Lifeway Survey from 2019.
research.lifeway.com
Few Protestant Churchgoers Read the Bible Daily - Lifeway Research
Christians say the Bible is God’s Word, but even among Protestant churchgoers only a third spend time reading it every day.
research.lifeway.com
quietthinker
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They fail to read it because either they are unmotivated; its exponents don't inspire them or thinking is too much of an ask.Reading plans have advantages and disadvantages.
Robert Murray McCheyne on the Dangers and Advantages of a Daily Bible Reading Plan
Every wise and seasoned Christian leader I have ever heard has told me the same thing: You need the daily discipline of getting up early and reading the Bible and praying for an hour. I do not deny the wisdom of this advice, but I have often thought that we seek out a "one-size-fits-all"...theaquilareport.com
If someone finds that disadvantages outweigh the advantages then they won’t use one.
The purpose of this thread is to encourage people to regularly read the Bible. Statistically, Christians fail to do so.
The tireless bots never rest from their work. From my X / Twitter “For you” feed:
”Seven weeks into the year, how are you doing with your Bible reading? Let George Mueller‘s testimony inspire you to press on. By the time he reached 71 years old, he reflected on the life-changing power of reading all of Scripture - yes, even the hard parts. He read through the Bible one hundred times and found it fresh every time, deepening his peace and joy year after year.
Don’t give up. Pick it up. Press on.”
(John Piper)
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”Seven weeks into the year, how are you doing with your Bible reading? Let George Mueller‘s testimony inspire you to press on. By the time he reached 71 years old, he reflected on the life-changing power of reading all of Scripture - yes, even the hard parts. He read through the Bible one hundred times and found it fresh every time, deepening his peace and joy year after year.
Don’t give up. Pick it up. Press on.”
(John Piper)
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“Every Christian who makes progress in holiness is a person who has disciplined his life so that he spends regular time in the Bible.“ - Jerry Bridges
Let us be committed to leading such a disciplined life.
Let us be committed to leading such a disciplined life.
Behold
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The NT is spiritual food that every born again believer needs to eat....daily.
See, if you go a day without eating your daily meals..., you will begin to feel weak.
If you do this 2 days, 3 days, then you will find that you have no power, no energy, no life in you..
You're starving.
And so....when a Christians "meal book" is not being eaten, then their spiritual power, their revelation knowledge, goes away....it diminishes.
Eventually, you wont care about "Christian stuff", at all.., as that is the effect of a dusty bible.. and coming to a forum, can actually harm you... because if you are not spending time with God's power book, then your spirit is on the hunt.. and on forums there is so much false theology, and scriptural error, and demonic activity related to false theology...that can harm you, because you are not in a spiritual place of strength... do to neglecting your spiritual inner life.
See, if you go a day without eating your daily meals..., you will begin to feel weak.
If you do this 2 days, 3 days, then you will find that you have no power, no energy, no life in you..
You're starving.
And so....when a Christians "meal book" is not being eaten, then their spiritual power, their revelation knowledge, goes away....it diminishes.
Eventually, you wont care about "Christian stuff", at all.., as that is the effect of a dusty bible.. and coming to a forum, can actually harm you... because if you are not spending time with God's power book, then your spirit is on the hunt.. and on forums there is so much false theology, and scriptural error, and demonic activity related to false theology...that can harm you, because you are not in a spiritual place of strength... do to neglecting your spiritual inner life.
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