Reading the Bible slowly is analogous to walking through the streets of a great city, taking in the sights, wandering in and out of its stores and gaining a knowledge of the city’s smells and sounds and colors and personality.
But sometimes, to know what the city looks like from the top of a 95 story building or from an airplane flying high above enables us to see how the various neighborhoods and streets and districts all meld into a coherent whole.
Sometimes it is important to get such a view of the Bible. How to do so can sometimes stump us. It is particularly helpful to have a means of pacing ourselves so that we do not get overwhelmed in this task.
I have posted two plans for reading through the bible in 2010 on the Hope Church website. One is designed to guide you through the whole bible. The other is a bit more ambitious, covering the Old Testament once and the New Testament and Psalms twice.
For those who want to make the journey at a less hurried pace, I’ve provided this.
I trust that some of you will find these helpful.