Thread: New Year's Challenge - read through the Bible in 90 days!

I would really like to do this, but with my reading for grad classes, I'm not sure I'd be able to keep up. However, if you could e-mail me the schedule, I'll at least give it a try. My e-mail is sastark at g mail dot com. Thanks!

(PS- this beats the heck out of 40 days of purpose! 90 Days of Scripture!)

Done!

Did day one last night. Doing day 2 right now. might start on day 3.

As a side note: I love Job.

Originally Posted by Zenas

Did day one last night. Doing day 2 right now. might start on day 3.

As a side note: I love Job.

git 'r done!

I think I'll go ahead and follow this plan. I'm going to get my daughter to do it with me. Who knows what this might turn into here on the PB.

Originally Posted by Zenas

As a side note: I love Job.

I finished up the Job portion of day 2 just a little while ago. I was struck with the majesty and power of our Sovereign God. I especially loved Job 9:1-14 in regards to this.

And Job, how he longed to hear the voice of God, and yet how he struggled with his unbelief. That's where I find myself so often in the Christian life. Thanks be to God for that Daysman the Lord Jesus Christ who goes betwixt God and us and lays his hand upon us both. (Job 9:33). It is especially in those times when the unbelief seems to be swallowing us up that we must look away from ourselves and fix our eyes on our precious Daysman.

Allright, folks - getting close to B-Hour!

Invite your family and friends and let's start the year off with a biblical bang!

Everybody make sure and update as soon as possible after the New Year begins what day you are on - just starting or an early bird!

Blessings!

I am in with you guys! Could you please send me the schedule as well? dan.yeager@gmail.com

Thanks!

Originally Posted by reformedcop

I am in with you guys! Could you please send me the schedule as well? dan.yeager@gmail.com

Thanks!

Done! and welcome

ok - a challenge for the challenge - let's get to 20 folks before midnight!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!

Looking forward to a Scripture drenched 2008!

Done reading one. Matthew 1's genealogy always reads like a "Previously on Battlestar Galactica..." for me!

I am in! Sad to say, I have never read through the Bible before, so this will be a challenge.

Just what I needed. May I also receive the email?
theol46@gmail.com

Thanks!

Originally Posted by D. Paul

Just what I needed. May I also receive the email?
theol46@gmail.com

Thanks!

done! and welcome!

Originally Posted by Megaloo

I am in! Sad to say, I have never read through the Bible before, so this will be a challenge.

good for you! It is best to do it with as a team effort for encouragement and accountability, so welcome!

ok - quick update:

I am on day 3 and have sent the readings for day 4 to myself via email, since I will be on the road returning to MS from Orlando today.

Originally Posted by jdlongmire

Originally Posted by D. Paul

Just what I needed. May I also receive the email?
theol46@gmail.com

Thanks!

done! and welcome!

I should proofread better. My email address is theol45@gmail.com.
I wrote theol46. If you would be so kind as to resend?

I finished day 3. I got my fiancee started on this too. We're going to try and do it 4 times this year, so we will have read Scripture front to back 4 times by the time we are married.

Well...I finished Day 1. From the other comments it looks like that means I'm behind...even though this is Day 1.

I generally follow this Bible reading plan ESV Bible Online: Daily Reading Bible

I like it because it allows me to be consistent, and the small chunks allow more time for reflection.

Originally Posted by CarolinaCalvinist

Well...I finished Day 1. From the other comments it looks like that means I'm behind...even though this is Day 1.

I finished day 3 today, but I'll wait on you and pick back up on Friday so we can read through it at the same pace. It will be nice to read through with a fellow university student!

Could anyone else send me the email? I understand JD is in transit and may not have read my post with the corrected email.
Otherwise, I'll wait patiently...

Never mind...JD's all over it!

How is everybody doing? I am still reading ahead with the knowledge that there will be days I cannot read:

My highlights from day 4 -

Genesis:

"I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you. 8And I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God."

"For I have chosen him"


Job:

25For I know that my Redeemer lives,
and at the last he will stand upon the earth.
26And after my skin has been thus destroyed,
yet in my flesh I shall see God,
27whom I shall see for myself,
and my eyes shall behold, and not another.


Matthew:

"I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children; 26yes, Father, for such was your gracious will. 27 All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him. 28 Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light."

Blessings to ya'll!

Also - it is not too late to join up! 2 days can be caught up fairly easily!

Originally Posted by TaylorOtwell

Originally Posted by CarolinaCalvinist

Well...I finished Day 1. From the other comments it looks like that means I'm behind...even though this is Day 1.

I finished day 3 today, but I'll wait on you and pick back up on Friday so we can read through it at the same pace. It will be nice to read through with a fellow university student!

Thanks, Taylor.

Seriously, though, part of the fun and encouragement is knowing that you're reading the same thing at the same time with everyone else. I understand that jumping ahead can be helpful and a personal mental boost, but if everyone is jumping ahead at different paces then we aren't really doing it as a team. And I certainly can't discuss day 4 and 5, or what have you, which are several days ahead of schedule, when I'm merely on schedule. Staying on schedule would also provide for better discussion, IMO.

Originally Posted by CarolinaCalvinist

Originally Posted by TaylorOtwell

Originally Posted by CarolinaCalvinist

Well...I finished Day 1. From the other comments it looks like that means I'm behind...even though this is Day 1.

I finished day 3 today, but I'll wait on you and pick back up on Friday so we can read through it at the same pace. It will be nice to read through with a fellow university student!

Thanks, Taylor.

Seriously, though, part of the fun and encouragement is knowing that you're reading the same thing at the same time with everyone else. I understand that jumping ahead can be helpful and a personal mental boost, but if everyone is jumping ahead at different paces then we aren't really doing it as a team. And I certainly can't discuss day 4 and 5, or what have you, which are several days ahead of schedule, when I'm merely on schedule. Staying on schedule would also provide for better discussion, IMO.

Good point, David - from this point on, I will keep my highlights saved for the day they are relevant and welcome discussion on the particular daily reading.

Thanks for your observation!

How's everyone doing? Lord willing, I'll pick up on day 4 tomorrow!

Originally Posted by TaylorOtwell

How's everyone doing? Lord willing, I'll pick up on day 4 tomorrow!

I've got the Matthew portion of day 4 that I'm going to read tomorrow. I slowed down a touch so I could keep on schedule with everyone else.

I hope everybody is truly being edified by the Word of the Lord as they read it for this new year. Let us encourage one another to remember to meditate upon what we read, and apply the biblical doctrines and principles to our daily lives.

SDG!

keep it coming, brethren!

For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him. (Genesis 18:19)

I love this verse of Scripture. It inspires me to be a godly man and, if the Lord provides me with a family, to lead them in the ways of the Lord. Of course, that means I need to be diligent in learning more about the ways of the Lord myself!

What did others think of day 4?

See my day 4 highlights above - I am constantly blown away that God uses us broken vessels to accomplish His plan!

Roll-Call! (Team members also get this as a PM)

Barnpreacher; Beth Ellen Nagle; Blueridge Baptist; bygracealone; CarolinaCalvinist

D. Paul; Exagorazo; Kevin; MeanieCalvinist; Megaloo

Pilgrim's Progeny; reformedcop; slhuckstead; theologae; Timothy William; Zenas

how are ya'll doing?

Please update the thread for edification opportunities! That is to give/receive!

-JD

"How you have helped him who has no power! How you have saved the arm that has no strength! How you have counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge! With whose help have you uttered words, and whose breath has come out from you? The dead tremble under the waters and their inhabitants. Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering. He stretches out the north over the void and hangs the earth on nothing. He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not split open under them. He covers the face of the full moon and spreads over it his cloud. He has inscribed a circle on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness. The pillars of heaven tremble and are astounded at his rebuke. By his power he stilled the sea; by his understanding he shattered Rahab. By his wind the heavens were made fair; his hand pierced the fleeing serpent. Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways, and how small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?"
(Job 26:2-14)

I am getting through it. I am trying to put together a an iCal file that we can all use as well.

Seth

I have a quick question. I am a theology student, not a mathematician, so, on a calendar would you repeat the reading date every 90 days or every 91 days?

91 i think

I have a few documents/files for the effort. The first is an ical file that can be imported into Google Cal and Apple's iCal (I am not sure about MS Outlook). Please inform me if there are any mistakes or changes. The iCal file may be localized to my Time Zone.

The second is a good old 2008 Calendar that can be used to cross out the daily effort.
90 Reading Plan 2008.pdf

90 Bible Schedule.ics.zip

try this

Originally Posted by slhuckstead

I have a few documents/files for the effort. The first is an ical file that can be imported into Google Cal and Apple's iCal (I am not sure about MS Outlook). Please inform me if there are any mistakes or changes. The iCal file may be localized to my Time Zone.

The second is a good old 2008 Calendar that can be used to cross out the daily effort.
Attachment 85

Attachment 86

Cool! - how do you import the iCal into google?