Read the Bible in a year

Okay, so I finally found it!

I was watching a DVD series from John Piper and he held up his Bible with 4 bookmarks in it with the Bible split up into 4ths with a reading plan. Pastor Piper explained how he has used this plan to read the Bible every year for the past 25 years--25 years! Front to cover reading the Bible! Thoughts of inspiration stirred around in my head. 25 years from now I want to say that I've read the Bible every year. Oh how broad a base of Bible knowledge I could have if I've read every single word in the Bible, over and over and over.

I use to mock the Bible year plans, saying that people are not getting deep profound truths from the Bible. Generalizing all, that they are only skimming and not delving down into the infinite wealth that only an infinite author can write. And this may be true to some degree with some people.

But I finally realized why reading the Bible in a year is so important. This is only one of many spiritual Disciplines. One discipline of which needs to be daily, and how important the daily discipline is, and so easy to forget, and may a forgotten day never go by! The benefits of this Spiritual discipline is endless.

Of course I am not going to give up the discipline of plummeting into the infinite worth of Scripture. In fact, my small group, I am a part of, is going to start studying the book of Romans, and we are going to spend, at the least, three years. Also, our goal is to have 4 verses memorized per week. So now, my small group has decided to follow this Bible in a year plan--and we found the perfect plan.

I ask everybody reading my little blog here to follow along with us, as we follow the plan from the Bethlehem Baptist Church's lead with their:

One Year Discipleship Journal Bible Reading Plan

Click the link and scroll down to the PDF files (Adobe Acrobat Reader), and print them off, and cut the book marks out. I challenge you to put the book marks in the proper spots in your favorite battle Bible, and check mark the the list off as you read along.

This is a great way to get broad knowledge of the whole entire Bible into our cores. After years of investment I promise you this will pay off: including more peace, joy, and content with your life, as it is properly understood in the context of God's sovereignty.