Fellow travelers,

It’s very early to write about 2024 plans, but have you ever read the Bible in a year?  If you haven’t, have you ever wanted to?  I’ve read, or at least listened to, all of the Bible in some years and find it a valuable practice.  In addition to doing it myself in 2024, I’m considering blogging each Sunday what I plan to cover the following week in case anyone wants to follow along.

If you cover 3 chapters a day on weekdays and 4 on weekends, it almost exactly comes to the 1,189 total chapters over a full year.  2024 is a leap year, so there’s an extra day.  My personal approach is to study 2-3 per day with a study bible or commentary, and just read or listen to audio for the remaining chapter.  It doesn’t always work out that way, but that’s the plan.

Readers could follow along any way they want.  They could just read the one chapter per day (the “PM” reading), or just the 2-3 chapters (the “AM” reading).  They could use an audio Bible for all or part of it.  They could swap the AM and PM times if that’s a better schedule.  Everyone knows best what works for them and what they’re likely to stick with, even if it’s not the whole Bible in a year.

A typical post would look something like this:

Weekly reading:
AM: Psalms 1-7, 1 Samuel 1-9
PM: Genesis 1-7

Daily:
Mon, Jan 1: Psalm 1, 1 Samuel 1, Genesis 1
Tue, Jan 2: Psalm 2, 1 Samuel 2, Genesis 2
Wed, Jan 3: Psalm 3, 1 Samuel 3, Genesis 3
Thu, Jan 4: Psalm 4, 1 Samuel 4, Genesis 4
Fri, Jan 5: Psalm 5, 1 Samuel 5, Genesis 5
Sat, Jan 6: Psalm 6, 1 Samuel 6-7, Genesis 6
Sun, Jan 7: Psalm 7, 1 Samuel 8-9, Genesis 7

Once the Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Solomon are done, the AM reading would come from only one book. If anyone thinks this would be helpful, I can work up or find a schedule and make this a regular post in 2024!