Fellow travelers,

Have you ever read the Bible in a year?  If you haven’t, have you ever wanted to?  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.

Beginning on Sunday, I’ll be posting here every week a guide for the following Monday – Sunday.  My personal approach is to study 2-3 chapters per day in the morning along with a study bible or commentary, and just read or listen to audio for the remaining chapter at night.  I start every year with one Psalm a day, plus something else in the morning, and a different book in the evening.  I find the variety helpful.  It doesn’t always work out that way, but that’s the plan.

Weekly I will post Morning and Evening chapters, but readers could follow along any way they want.  They could just read the one chapter per day (the “Evening” reading), or just the 2-3 chapters (the “Morning” reading).  They could use an audio Bible for all or part of it.  They could swap the Morning and Evening chapters 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.

This year will start with Psalms and 1 Samuel in the morning, since so many Psalms are based on David’s life, which is covered in 1 and 2 Samuel.  The evenings will start with the Pentateuch.

Looking forward to 2024!