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What if you wrote beautiful letters to your children only to find years later that they never even opened the envelopes?

That was the thought that struck me recently and I was ashamed to once again face the fact that I have never read through the Bible in a calendar year.  I was convicted and decided that when I face the Lord some day, I will have read His letters to me.

There are many ways to read through the Bible.   Reading from cover to cover is something many people do.  Some pick a passage from the Old Testament and a passage from the New Testament.  Others add Psalms and Proverbs on each day and read through those books more than one in the calendar year as they read the rest of the Bible all way through.

After taking much input and looking at the different methods, I decided to select a reading schedule that is different from those above.  It was a way many suggested is the best way the first time you read through the Bible in a year.

Our Through The Word Reading Schedule doesn't follow the order in which the books appear in the Bible.  It is not canonical.   It is a chronological arrangement.  The poetic and prophetic books of the Old Testament are inserted in the historical books at the point in the narrative where they are thought to have been written.  The Epistles of the New Testament are inserted in the Narrative of the book of Acts.  The chronological order is agreeable to most conservative Bible scholars.

I look forward to learning together, being frustrated together, and encouraging one another.

Thank you for joining us on this wonderful year-long adventure through the Bible.

God bless you,


Scott Wilder