How I did it: I found a "Read Through The Bible" schedule on the internet that had the Bible broken up into 3 sections. You read a little in each section a day. The sections are the first half of the Old Testament, the 2nd half, and the New Testament.
I read the 1st half of the OT. My daughter read the 2nd half of the OT. My son read the NT. My daughter started this at 10 yrs old and had a birthday over the summer. My son started at 7 yrs old and had a birthday over the summer.
We printed out the schedule and every part we read for one day, we'd color a color. The next day we'd use a different contrasting color. Our schedule was printed on 1/2 sheets and was comprised of 9 sheets.
It's very colorful - the schedule and that helped us gauge how much we had read or needed to read. The reading schedule was broken down into months. And, I would put down throughout the schedule what % we were at.
That helped us because we are math people.
And, I would log here in 43T what day we were on, so we can tell what days we didn't read the Bible or what days we did. It really shows more our Bible habits and sometimes it was overload and other times, it was sparse. Read how I did it… 4 months ago
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This is the first time my kids and I have ever read the whole Bible out loud together and it was awesome. We got a slow start and had some stalling times, but what helped was the more we read, we got to learn more about God and who He is, His love for mankind.
It made me think that my life isn’t that bad compared to what some people in the Bible had to go through.
Praise God!!! My kids and I have gained a lot spiritually since we started this in early March. It took us a little over 6 months to do this, but read for 128 days, which means there were days we didn’t read the Bible at all. Ackk!
There is much room for improvement, but what a blessing this has been for us.
I would encourage others to do this. Be opened minded. If you follow a schedule, doing a little each day for 365 days, you are spending about 15-25 min. a day reading. If you can’t do it all at once, break it up into some in the evening and in the morning. 4 months ago
My Son: Leviticus 3
My Daughter: Leviticus 4
Me: Leviticus 5-6
This took about 25 min. We have now completed 100% reading of the whole Bible!!! Praise God!
I pray that throughout the lives of my children and I, that each year we would at least every year read the Bible through at least once, in addition to the other studies we would do.
God is so good. This last stretch really dragged out.
We normally read every morning, but I woke up in a comatose state and we just didn’t do it this morning. 4 months ago
My Daughter: Leviticus 1-2
This took about 10 min. to read. We didn’t have time to read the next 4 chapters, which would’ve given us 100% read through the Bible. After school. 4 months ago
My Son: Matthew 6-7
Me: Exodus 33-34
My Daughter: Proverbs 15
This took about 25-30 min.
We are 98.6% through the Bible and inching our way towards the finish line. We really should’ve been done with this, but yesterday was, well, no excuses. We didn’t do it yesterday evening as I intended. My fault. 4 months ago
My Son: Exodus 30-31
Me: Exodus 32
This took about 15 min. to read. Hope we can read more tonight.
We are 98.2% through the Bible. Oh, so close. We were so incredibly busy last week, we didn’t get to finish. Hopefully this week. 4 months ago
My Daughter: Proverbs 18
I’m bummed we got so busy we didn’t read on Friday & Saturday. 4 months ago
My Daughter: Exodus 28, Proverbs 14
Me: Exodus 29
My Son: Matthew 5:21-48 4 months ago
My Son: Matthew 5:1-20
My Daughter: Proverbs 13 4 months ago
Me: Exodus 25-27
My Daughter: Proverbs 12
My Son: Matthew 4
This took us about 25 min. to read. This was only 1 day’s worth. 5 months ago
Me: Exodus 22-24
My Daughter: Proverbs 10-11
My Son: Matthew 2-3
We got to read 2 days’ worth this morning. This took 35 min. to read.
We are now 97.3% of the Bible. 10 more days to read. So close. So exciting! 5 months ago
Me: Exodus 20-21
My Son: Matthew 1
My Daughter: Proverbs 9
This took 25 min.
We did not read on Saturday, unfortunately. 5 months ago
My Daughter: Proverbs 6-7:5
My Son: Hebrews 11:23-40, 12-13
Me: Exodus 15
This took us 30 min.
We are at 96% through the Bible. 5 months ago
My Daughter: Proverbs 3
Me: Exodus 9-10
My Son: Hebrews 10:1-18
This took about 20 min.
We are finally 95% through the Bible. 18 more days’ reading to go. Hopefully we can get 3 more days later this evening. We are so close. 5 months ago
Me: Exodus 1-2
My Son: Hebrews 4:14-6:20
My Daughter: Psalm 40-41, Exodus 3
This took 35 min. We read 25 min. at home and 10 min. on the way to school.
LOVE, LOVE, reading the Word of God first thing in the morning. It starts our day off well, which the days we don’t do it, not sure why, but just plain laziness and the Bible has nothing good to say about laziness or just wrong priorities & poor planning.
We’re not quite at 95% through the Bible, but soon. 5 months ago
Glad we started our day out again with the Lord. It always seems better that way.
Me: Genesis 48-50
My Daughter: Psalm 38-39
My Son: Hebrews 3-4:13
This took us about 25 min. to read before school. Woke up late, but we still made it. Kids didn’t want to read on the drive to school. 5 months ago
We read the Bible today, but somewhere within the past month, we missed a day and I was off on my dates, so I am now on the correct date.
I’m feeling so discouraged right now.
My Daughter: Psalm 34-37
My Son: Genesis 44, Hebrews 1-2
Me: Genesis 43, 45-47
This took 45 min.
We are 93.2% through the Bible (340 days). Less than 1 month’s worth before we’re done. 5 months ago
My Son: Luke 23-24
My Daughter: Psalm 32-33
Me: Genesis 41-42
This took us about 30 min. to read. I began crying while reading my portion about Joseph reuniting with his family. I couldn’t help myself as the tears streamed from my face. Something about what I was reading was greatly impacting me. The Holy Spirit was all over it.
Also, while in Pastoral Prayer, I got a little choked up praying, too. God’s presence was so thick around.
We are 92.2% through the Bible. 5 months ago
Me: Genesis 37-40
My Son: Luke 21-22
My Daughter: Psalm 28-31
This took us 50 min. to read. It would’ve been less, but it took my son a long time to get through his readin gbecause he was goofing around.
We have completed 334/365 days of the Bible reading and are 91.5% through the Bible. We are not going to get through the other 8.5% by the end of Monday as that would be about another 8 hrs of reading the Bible together and my kids do not want to cram it into 3 days, and most of it would be today and Monday.
However, we are in the 90s now, which the finish line is getting closer & closer. Yippee God! 5 months ago
My Daughter: Genesis 32, 34, Psalm 27
My Son: Genesis 33, Luke 20:1-26
Me: Genesis 34-36
This took about 35 min. to do. We are 330 days through the reading and it’s now 90.4% through the Bible!!!
We didn’t have time to read this morning because of me waking up late, so we read this evening. 5 months ago
My Son: Luke 19
My Daughter: Psalm 25-26
Not sure how long this took. Read this on the way to school. 5 months ago
My Son: Luke 18
My Daughter: Psalm 24
Me: Genesis 31
This took about 25 min. We are 89.6% through the Bible. I’d like to read more tonight (this was done before school today), but not sure. We have small group and I’m so tired right now. 5 months ago
My Daughter: Psalm 21-23
My Son: Luke 16-17
Me: Genesis 29-30
We read for 38 min. We are 89.2% through the Bible. Glad we made it reading the Bible, as we barely did today again. Didn’t read in the morning due to my comatose state. 5 months ago
My Daughter: Genesis 25
My Son: Genesis 26
Me: Genesis 27-28
This took 24 min. We are 88.5% through the Bible. I doubt we will get all of the Bible read by Labor Day.
We were pretty tired today and didn’t read this morning, rather this evening. 5 months ago
My Daughter: Psalm 18:21-50, 19-20
Me: Genesis 24
This took 20 min. We were supposed to read until Genesis 27, but I got too sleepy and had to take a nap. :( 5 months ago
Today is my son’s 8th birthday!!!
My Son: Luke 13:18-35, 14,15
My Daughter: Psalm 18:1-20
My kids read this on the way to school as we had to go early to get donuts to celebrate my son’s birthday for his school classroom. And, I woke up late. Forgot to set my timer to get up.
This took about 20 min. 5 months ago
