Perhaps the whole reason that we have the notion of a “Bible reading plan” is due to a man named Robert Murray M’Cheyne (sometimes spelled McCheyne). M’Cheyne was a Scottish Presbyterian minister who devised his personal reading plan in the mid 1800’s. The plan is actually two plans in one. There are two sets of…

If you flip open to the table of contents on your copy of the Bible, you may not realize at first that the listing there isn’t exactly “chronological”. Sure, it starts with Genesis (the beginning) and ends with Revelation (the end), but it goes through a couple loop-de-loops in between. Theses loops have to do…

There is something about having a great name, and this Bible reading plan has a GREAT NAME. The name of this plan is “the Bible Reading Plan for Shirkers and Slackers”. Rather than giving you  a defined week by week set of readings, the plan simply separates the Bible into different days. So every Sunday…

For the next few weeks we are going to be reviewing different Bible reading plans to give you an introduction into some ways that you can start to read the Bible. Today we’re looking at “Reading the Word of God,” a Bible reading plan put together by three different Lutheran church bodies working together. You…

Recently, through the “Question of the Week” in our email newsletter, we found out that people wanted to grow most in the area of “understanding the Bible”. When we dug a little deeper, we found that this was coming from about three places: 1. “I feel like I don’t know where to start.” 2. “I…