Read Through the Bible Next Year

This is part 1 in a series.

Most Christians want to read through the whole Bible. This probably means you, especially if you’ve never read the whole thing through before. Some of you have tried and failed in the past but you want to try again. Some of you have never tried before and you may not realize how difficult it really is.

So, let me emphasize this: Reading through the Bible is hard. This is especially true if you have never done it before. In life, the first time we do anything is usually the hardest. Remember trying to learn how to ride a bike? Remember the first time you rode a roller coaster, how scared you were? I’ll never forget the first time I was told to add up a long column of numbers that were two digits long or more. My brain freaked out! Now, it’s no big deal. I just get out my calculator!

The first time you do something new, it is almost always harder and more terrifying than you expected. But, after you’ve done it a while, you learn that it is not as hard as you thought it would be when you started.

This is true about reading through the Bible.

But, once you make it through, you’ll want to do it again and you will almost always succeed the second time. If you keep doing it, you may even get to the point where you read it through more than once in a given calendar year.

So, the next several posts will form a series about Bible reading. The purpose of this series is to challenge you to read all 66 books of the Bible before next year ends. This series will show you how and give you some helpful pointers and encouragement to make this dream a reality.