New Testament Chronological Half Year Reading Plan

There are lots of ways to read the Bible in a year, and I won't effort to capture all of them. Only here are numerous options, in no item club. You may want to look through it and encounter what you think would work best for you.

First off, if you're not persuaded that having a plan is necessary and biblical in some sense, then here's a helpful piece from John Piper, written in 1984.

Stephen Witmer has a helpful introduction—on the weaknesses of typical plans and some communication on reading the Bible together with others—besides as offering his own new two-year program.

George Guthrie has a very helpful Read the Bible for Life Chronological Bible Reading Plan. (I'll have more than to say later about Guthrie's new volume, Read the Bible for Life, and the church building-broad campaign to promote biblical literacy. It'south really worth picking up.)

The Gospel Coalition's For the Love of God Blog takes you through the M'Cheyne reading plan, with a meditation each day by D. A. Carson related to one of the readings.

The Bible Reading Programme for Shirkers and Slackers (Pastor Andy Perry explains the program and why he recommends it.)

Before I mention some of the ESV plans, here are a few other options that aren't one-year-plans per se:

Don Whitney has a simple only surprisingly constructive tool: A Bible Reading Tape. It'south a list of every chapter in the Bible, and y'all can check them off as you read them at whatever stride you want.

For the highly motivated and disciplined, Grant Horner'southward programme has you reading each day a chapter from ten dissimilar places in the Bible. (Bob Kauflin read the whole Bible this mode in five and a half months and explains why he likes this system a lot.)

Joe Carter and Fred Sanders explicate James Grayness'south method of "How to Principal the English language Bible." My pastor, David Sunday, told me that "the plan they recommend is, from my vantage point, the most productive way to read and to master the Bible'south contents (or more importantly, to let the Bible master you!)."

There are 10 Reading Plans for ESV Editions, and the dainty things is the style in which Crossway has fabricated them accessible in multiple formats:

• web (a new reading each solar day appears online at the same link)
• RSS (subscribe to receive past RSS)
• podcast (subscribe to become your daily reading in audio)
• iCal (download an iCalendar file)
• mobile (view a new reading each mean solar day on your mobile device)
• print (download a PDF of the whole plan)

Reading Plan	Format
Daily Reading Bible Daily Onetime Testament, New Testament, and Psalms	Web	RSS	iCal	Mobile	Print
Outreach Bible Daily Erstwhile Testament, Psalms, and New Testament	Web	RSS	iCal	Mobile	Print
Outreach Bible New Testament Daily New Testament. Read through the New Testament in vi months	Web	RSS	iCal	Mobile	Impress
M'Cheyne Ane-Year Reading Plan Daily Old Testament, New Testament, and Psalms or Gospels	Web	RSS	iCal	Mobile	Print
ESV Study Bible Daily Psalms or Wisdom Literature; Pentateuch or the History of Israel; Chronicles or Prophets; and Gospels or Epistles	Web	RSS	iCal	Mobile	Print
Literary Study Bible Daily Psalms or Wisdom Literature; Pentateuch or the History of Israel; Chronicles or Prophets; and Gospels or Epistles	Web	RSS	iCal	Mobile	Print
Every 24-hour interval in the Word Daily Former Attestation, New Testament, Psalms, Proverbs	Web	RSS	iCal	Mobile	Print
Through the Bible Daily Old Testament and New Testament	Spider web	RSS	iCal	Mobile	Print
Chronological Through the Bible chronologically (from Dorsum to the Bible)	Spider web	RSS	iCal	Mobile	Impress
Book of Common Prayer Daily Role Daily Psalms, Former Attestation, New Attestation, and Gospels	Web	RSS	iCal	Mobile	Print

You can also access each of these Reading Plans as podcasts:

• Correct-click (Ctrl-click on a Mac) the "RSS" link of the feed you desire from the in a higher place list.
• Choose "Copy Link Location" or "Copy Shortcut."
• Get-go iTunes.
• Cull Advanced > Subscribe to Podcast.
• Paste the URL from step three into the box.
• Click OK.

The entire Bible on audio is usually about 75 hours (or 4500 minutes). If you commute to piece of work five days a week, that's about 260 days a year. And if information technology takes you, say, 17 minutes to commute each fashion to work—and if you listen to the Bible on sound during your drive each way—you'll go through the entire Bible twice in a yr. This probably isn't the but mode to do Bible intake—but it's one nearly of us should accept advantage of more than.

Here's some more detail on these plans (some from Crossway, some from elsewhere).

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ESV Study Bible (The ESV Literary Report Bible contains the same plan)

With this plan there are four readings each mean solar day, divided into iv main sections:

• Psalms and Wisdom Literature
• Pentateuch and the History of Israel
• Chronicles and Prophets
• Gospels and Epistles

The introduction explains:

In order to make the readings come out evenly, 4 major books of the Bible are included twice in the schedule: the Psalms (the Bible's hymnal), Isaiah (the grandest of the OT prophets), Luke (ane of the four biblical Gospels), and Romans (the heart of the Bible's theology of salvation).The list of readings from the Psalms and the Wisdom Literature begins and ends with special readings that are particularly advisable for the opening and closing of the year. The listing of readings from the Pentateuch and the History of Israel proceeds canonically through the five books of Moses then chronologically through the history of the OT, before closing the year with the sufferings of Job. The list of readings from the Chronicles and the Prophets begins with the Chronicler's history of the people of God from Adam through the exile, followed by the Major and Minor Prophets, which are organized chronologically rather than canonically.

Y'all tin can print out this PDF, which is designed to exist cut into four bookmarks that can be placed at the appropriate place in your Bible reading. There are boxes to cheque off each reading as you consummate it.

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Thousand'Cheyne Ane-Year Reading Program

With this plan you read through:

• the NT twice
• the Psalms twice
• the residue of the OT once

The plan begins with the four not bad beginnings or "births" of Scripture: Genesis ane (starting time of the world), Ezra 1 (rebirth of Israel subsequently her render from Babylonian exile), Matthew 1 (birth of the Messiah), Acts 1 (birth of the body of Christ). John Stott says of this reading schedule: "Zip has helped me more to gain an overview of the Bible, and so of God's redemptive plan."

If you get with this road, I'd recommend D.A. Carson's For the Love of God (vol. ane and vol. 2 are available–vols. 3 and 4 are forthcoming). Carson'south introduction and preface—which includes a layout of the agenda—are available for free online.

Since there are four readings each mean solar day, it'south easy to modify this one so that you read through the Bible one time in two years, by reading simply the commencement two readings each twenty-four hours for the first year and the second two readings each day for the 2nd year.

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Here's a plan from NavPress, which is used each yr at Bethlehem Baptist Church:

The Discipleship Periodical Reading Plan

With this plan you read through the entire Bible in one case.

With this plan there are "catch-up" days:

• To prevent the frustration of falling behind, which most of us tend to do when following a Bible reading plan, each month of this program gives you only 25 readings. Since you'll have several "complimentary days" each calendar month, you lot could set aside Sunday to either non read at all or to catch up on any readings you may have missed in the past week.
• If you cease the calendar month's readings past the 20-fifth, you could utilize the last days of the month to study passages that challenged or intrigued you lot.

Bethlehem makes available bookmarks that you can place in the relevant parts of your Bible:

• Bookmarks for 1st half of the year
• Bookmarks for second half of the twelvemonth

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The Journey Engage Scripture Reading Plan

The Journey, an Acts 29 church building in St. Louis pastored by Darrin Patrick, is doing a church-wide reading plan this yr.

This program has you read whole capacity (a feature I like):

• one New Testament chapter
• two Erstwhile Testament chapters

They likewise take a couple of features designed to help those of u.s.a. who accept problem persevering through a schedule like this: (ane) there are lots of reflection/catch-up days; (2) they accept pulled from the daily programme some of the slower-paced, harder-to-empathize books. These and so become "Monthly Scripture Snapshots" that are to be speed-read, forth with online videos and overviews to put these books in context. Run into their website for more resources related to this programme.

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Source: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/justin-taylor/bible-reading-plans-3/

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