Ok, I am looking for folks to participate with me in a 90 Bible readthrough.

I have posted a tool on my blog and have already started, but we all know how the best laid plans can start with a bang and end with a whimper - - so here is the call!

Ultimately, I would love for this to be a quarterly recurring challenge and I plan to make the tool more and more "user friendly" to facilitate us 'Net oriented readers!

The spreadsheet is on GoogleDocs and I will be happy to share it with interested folks.

If you have any additional tools/suggestions/rants/raves, please post them here.

The idea is for us to update this thread or comment on my blog regularly with our progress or struggles.

SDG!

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-JD

Yikes...cannot do it this year. I'll be glad to be able to go through again in under a year, and that is even hard.

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Pergamum


"If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?"
-- David Livingstone

No worries, Perg...and welcome on board, Blueridge!

I want to try that at some point, this year, I want to "dig deep" I mean that I will be focusing on reading the Bible, slooooowly with a lot of Prayer and contemplation. But like I say the 90 days sounds interesting......in '09?

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et

Absolutely, etx - and this is certainly not to be the replacement for regular bible study - - it is an enhancement, a stretch goal!

90 in '09!

90 in 09! You got it!

I'm going to give it a shot!

Just finished up the first days reading.

Are we going to use this thread to discuss the passages (if anyone wants to discuss)? I would like to be able to share things or read what other people draw from the passages and encourage each other.

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Taylor W. Otwell, Husband to Abigail
Member, Fellowship Bible Church
Fort Smith, Arkansas
Family Blog

90 in 09!!!!! Wooohoooo, January through march of 09 sounds awesome....I just need a little prep time to clear my plate. A reading schedule and maybe a thread that starts when we start. See you in a year!

Could you please hit me with the Google Doc? My email is exagorazo at gmail dot com

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Vaughan
BTh Student, Presbyterian Theological Centre
Student Assistant, Ashfield Presbyterian Church
Sydney, Australia
The Ransomed

I think I would like to do it! But why is the first day checked off already? Has it already started??? It's not the first of the year!!

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Davidius
Husband of Emily
Member of All Saints Anglican Church - Chapel Hill (AMiA / Anglican Church of North America)
Student: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, German and Classics

absolutely, I figure this is a running thread for this year's challenge - any discussion will be excellent!

and great work!

on the way as an .xls! - should upload nicely into GoogleDocs. email me at jdlongmire at yahoo dot com with any questions/comments/rants/raves

- knowing my nature for procrastinating and trying to plan ahead, I jumped on it to get a head start!

I know I will need it later on!

Welcome aboard!

oh - just noticed that you can LISTEN to scripture on biblegateway.com - for the record - THAT COUNTS TOO!

We are a multimedia team!

I love that the readings start the alternation between Gen, Job and Matthew - an incredible juxtaposition...

Job 9:2b
But how can a man be in the right before God?

So did you create the calendar yourself?

Just finished up day one.

Some random thoughts on the Genesis portion. I love that I'm no longer reading Genesis (or any part of the Bible) through dispensational glasses any longer. Praise be to God. How much of His grace we miss when we don't see how covenantal Genesis is. When God came to Adam and Eve after they fell and they knew they deserved to die on the spot, but yet He came with that marvelous covenant of grace promise in Genesis 3:15. What a gracious God! And then Adam responded in faith to God's promise by calling his wife Eve, the mother of the living. Genesis 4:25 really stood out to me because it showed how God raised up a righteous seed after Abel had died in order for the fulfillment of that wonderful covenantal promise in Genesis 3:15.

Some random thoughts on the Job portion. I'm always amazed at how well Job understood God's sovereignty in the first two chapters. I also paid particular attention to how some of what Eliphaz said was really true. Job 5:7, 17-18 in particular. He may not have been saying it with the right intentions or motives, but those verses are very true.

Some random thoughts on the Matthew portion. I love Matthew 1:21 - He shall save HIS people from their sins. I used to think that was strictly a reference to Israel. How that verse became so much more precious to my heart once I saw it was his elect he was referring to.

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Ryan Barnhart - Pastor of OGBC
Husband to a beautiful wife, Father to two beautiful girls
Student at Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary - B.D.

"I confess to you, that if I can but live and die serving the Lord Jesus, it will make no difference to me whether I am eaten by Cannibals or by worms. And in the Great Day my Resurrection body will rise as fair as yours in the likeness of our risen Redeemer." - John Paton

Excellent observations - I just finished day 2 -and Noah - speaking of covenants!

You know, I was just thinking the same thing about the truth in Job...really helps us understand that though the "wisdom" of other faiths may contain truth statements, the foundation for understanding is deficient.

and in the NT - the Beatitudes!

Looking forward to tomorrow's reading and hearing what others observed from God's precious Word.

Thanks for this thread and the Bible reading chart, Brother!

My pleasure - so glad to have my brethren in Christ participating - it is really great accountability!

no, indeed, David!

I noted the source on the blog post - there are so many excellent plans out there - I really wanted one that had some good alternation - fits my attention span!

And as I have noted, the alternation has some excellent juxtapositions - don't see how they could have been planned in detail by the chart organizer - I think it is the providential harmony of the texts shining through!

OK brother I am willing to try this. Can we have a new forum created that gives us the passages for that day when we log in?

What would help me would be if when I logged in I had a reminder of each days portion of scripture. Even if all that it was, was a forum that someone posted the texts for the day as the first post. Then as we read them we could offer comments as the Lord laid on our hearts.

What say you all?

PS Thanks for the challenge!!

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Kevin Rogers
Sovereign Community Church, PCA
Moncton NB

How will you all be approaching the readings? All in one sitting? Three separate sittings at different times during the day?

Let's do this!

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Andrew DeShazo
Husband of Kathryn
Father of Phillip-Giles B. DeShazo
Deacon
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, Memphis, TN
"From out of the depth of unbroken Infinfity arose the Question, "Who am I?" And to that Question there is the answer, "I am God!" -Meher Baba, died 1969.

"I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." Christ, died 33 AD, ressurected three days later.

I plan to hit all 3 at one time - thus far I can get through all 3 in about 30 minutes - even with a contemplative heart. I also plan to repeat the readings every quarter - again, as an enhancement to other, deeper studies I do throughout the year.

You make a good point though, the format allows some flexibility, which is why I liked it so much!

Also - I just added a blank printable version to the post.

hmm - I'd have to defer to one of the "great ones" to figure that one out and since this is a team effort, I'd say we could "open the floor" to have one of the team members post the daily reading threads as they are so moved - but I am open to suggestions.

I am wide open on that, bro!

Again, my pleasure and glad to have you on board!

Thanks, brother. I'm about to get a head start on my readings too!

Would you email the .xls to me, too, so that I may upload it into Google Docs? My address is dcpell@unc.edu.

done!

I will be doing it a little bit different that your plan if thats ok brother. I'll read 10 chapters a day in th OT with 1 per day in Proverbs followed by 3 per day in the NT. This will be a great help to us all.

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Psa 55:16 As for me, I will call upon God; and the LORD shall save me.
Psa 55:17 Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.
James Farley
Husband of Melissa and father of Ann.
Members of Redeemer Church ARP, Blacksburg Va.
http://www.redeemerblacksburg.org/

Day 3 is done - Abram is introduced, Job rebukes his "miserable comforters", Christ pours out wisdom and miracles...praise God for the richness of His word!

The method is flexible, the goal is set! Blessings, brother!

I'll do it.

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I want to try this too...could you please email me the schedule?

v.arious at inbox.com

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~Beth Ellen Nagle~
Lakeside Church -Wales, WI (PCA)
Married to John
One wonderful daughter, Chaela Joelle


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Me and Pergi are in for next year!

done!

Count me in!
The clock starts after midnight tonight RIGHT????

I see you are already a few days ahead. Also if you could email me the schedule to me that would be helpful. briankkarger at yahoo dot com.

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Brian K. Karger
Faith Baptist Church
1689 LBC
www.founders.org

excellent and welcome!

That is the official, authorized milestone, yes!

Done!