Saturday, 10 January, 2004
Now that I've finished off Genesis, I've decided to spend this year reading the Revised Standard Version in conjunction with the
Robert Murry M'Cheyne Bible reading plan and
For the Love of God Volume 1 by D.A. Carson which is a series of devotions based on that plan. I'm definitely not sticking to the days; I know I'll never be able to do it that way. So it will take longer than a year but I don't mind that. I'll go at my own pace and not get weighed down by legalism or guilt and then I'll finish it when I finish it. I know I'm not being very original because heaps of people are planning to do this plan too but who cares about being original as long as I keep reading my Bible and praying to my God.
I've always wanted to work through the R.M. M'Cheyne plan. You read four chapters a day from four different books of the Bible. When you start, they are Genesis, Ezra, Matthew and Acts. The rest of the plan just involves reading steadily through the Bible from those starting points. Which is kind of cool because they are, in a sense, natural starting points in the timeline of Bible history: the creation of the world, the return of the exiles, the coming of Christ and the establishment of the early church. You do the New Testament twice and the Old Testament once. If you wanted to follow along with the proper dates,
Dave has a cool link that allows you to see all four Bible passages on the one page.
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Hi Karen! I actually found the hippocampus site by accident coupla months ago. It’s a cool site! Keep it up!
Yeh, I’m trying to get in the habit of reading the bible in my own time- it’s one of my resolutions. I’m going to start with Judges, since my knowledge of that part of the bible is very vague.
It’s amazing, though: even with a link on my own homepage, it’s still a struggle to keep reading the bible each day. Hope it’s useful to someone
Karen, this is my first visit to your blog, and I really enjoyed it. I hadn’t heard of the Robert Murry M’Cheyne Bible reading plan…very interesting.
Hope you’ll visit my blog when you get a moment!
Cool—hope it goes well. I tend to be very poorly disciplined: I was aiming to read the whole Bible in 2003, starting on January 1st at mission and ending on December 31st at mission. I have only just reached the NT! You’re right about guilt and legalism, though.
Let us knows how it goes. I’d like to do the M’Cheyne plan once I’ve finished the NT.