read the Bible in a year

I just finished reading the Bible in a year with only 139 days to spare which is pretty good in my opinion. Now I have to figure out what I want to do with my Bible readings for the rest of the year. I’m currently debating over devoting the rest of the year to the Psalms & Gospels and commit to read them though at least once a month or turn it into the other common Old Testament once and New Testament twice a year plan.

I find it hard to believe but I only have the second half of Judges, 1 & 2 Samuel and 1 & 2 Kings before reading every chapter of the Bible at least once this year. I’m not complaining but from past experience I was expecting a mad rush to get finished in time come December. How is everyone else doing?

In case it helps anyone I’ve been finding the reading checklist here http://www.goodshepherdlowell.org/biblereading2.html a big help. I highly recommend it to anyone else who is finding the premade reading plans a bit too restrictive and choppy to be meaningful.

This of all goals is one that seems to be very well suited for the new personal challenge option. So if you are serious about this goal I encourage you to do the same and upgrade this goal to the personal challenge level.

The last two days I’ve actually forgotten to do this until late at night. I need to remember to do this earlier- maybe on lunch break?

How is it going for the rest of you?

Do it faster… that way if you fall behind, you aren’t behind!

I blew it this year. But I’m going to try again in 2007. I’m not sure what/if I’ll do different. I’ll try to give that some thought

I’ve been slacking off with regular Bible reading too much lately. While it would be nice to start working on this goal a bit more seriously at the moment I think it would be best to hold off till the new year. Still that doesn’t mean that I’ll put the Bible on hold as I’ll try to read the entire NT from now to the end of the year as a bit of a warm up.

I’m sign up with the one year bible blog and email list and ready to get started tomorrow. I’ve probably read through the bible many times by now, but not straight through on a daily basis. But this blog/email group has great commentary and discussion on each day’s readings, so I’m really looking forward to this.