There are several options to choose from.įor example, Crossway offers the ESV Daily Reading Bible. The readings are laid out for each day of the year-January 1 through December 31-using the popular M’Cheyne reading plan, such that you read through the OT once and the NT and Psalms twice. Some Bibles are designed to facilitate daily Bible reading. As John Piper has written, “Nothing but the simplest impulses gets accomplished without some forethought which we call a plan.” What are some helps for reading the Bible in a year? Simple resolutions are often well-intentioned but insufficient. Despite our good intentions, why don’t more Christians read the Bible in a year? So reading the Bible cover to cover is a great way to facilitate meditation upon the whole counsel of God. Without meditation the truths of God will not stay with us the heart is hard, and the memory is slippery, and without meditation all is lost. The point is not to check off a list or punch in your time but rather to meditate on the Word in such a way that your mind, heart, and actions are transformed in a godly, gospel-drawn way.Īs oil lubricates an engine, so meditation facilitates the diligent use of means of grace (reading of Scripture, hearing sermons, prayer, and all other ordinances of Christ), deepens the marks of grace (repentance, faith, humility), and strengthens one’s relationships to others (love to God, to fellow Christians, to one’s neighbors at large).Ī Christian without meditation is like a solider without arms, or a workman without tools. It is compared to bread and water-not nice things to have when there is time but that which is essential for survival. No. What is commends is knowing the whole counsel of God (Acts 20:27) and meditating or storing or ruminating upon God’s self-disclosure to us in written form (Deut. And if you want a simple but beautiful handout, where every Bible chapter has a box, go here.) Does the Bible ever command us to read the whole Bible in a year? (For those who like details, here’s a webpage devoted to how long it takes to read each book of the Bible.
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If you want to listen to a narrator read the Bible (which you can do so for free at ), they are usually about 75 hours long total, which means at 12 minutes a day you can listen to the whole Bible in a year. So 2,123 words/day divided by 225 words/minute equals 9.4 minutes a day.]
The average person reads 200 to 250 words per minute. Divided by 365, that’s 2,123 words a day.
(There are about 775,000 words in the Bible. How long does it take to read through the entire Bible in a year?
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