So, recently, I discovered youversion.com, which is a slick website and blackberry app (they have apps for nearly any net enabled phone). For a bit, I was just using this as my ‘on the go’ bible, but I just found the ‘reading plans’, and took a look at their website too. There is a nice reader there, that allows you to scroll through two versions side by side, which is something I really like. The ‘reading plans’, are just different orders to read the bible in. I just started the ‘chronological’ plan, which was created by blue letter bible, which obviously starts in [youversion]Genesis 1[/youversion].
There is also a place to ‘connect’ to other youversion users, following their contributions, and discussion. If there is any sort of interest, I will start a group and we can read along together!
A reading plan is great. And I really like the site you linked to.
My only problem is in a reading plan. If I miss a day or two, I feel pressured to catch up.
What I do now is read one Psalm a day, One chapter in the OT a day. and one chapter in the NT each day.
If I miss a day no big deal, I just pick back up where I left off.
🙂
This way I read the OT once in a year and the NT twice in a year. Once I get to the end of Psalms, I read through Proverbs at one per day. and then back to Psalms again. That way I read twice through each of those in the year also.
I would be interested in reading along with you and others.
Love you guys
Papa Rick
Its funny, because I like a structured reading plan for the same reasons you do not. I have a tendency to read and read, and then when I start to miss a few days, the next thing I know and its been a year since I’ve read at all. I like the reading plan because help me remember to stay on task. Youversion is very much an ‘on track’ reading plan. If you miss a day, they encourage you to keep reading today’s reading and move on (don’t try to get caught up), which is not something I’d ever do. I really enjoy the continuity of the bible, and ‘skipping’ chapters doesn’t set well with me.
I like your ‘reading plan’ w/out the tight schedule. I’ve talked with a lot of men about ‘how’ they read their bible, and the one thing that is consistent amount all the great readers is that they read psalms and/or proverbs everyday, and go through them all in either 6 months or a year, and then start over. I’ve heard time and time again, how uplifting, inspiring, or just plain how important men find these two books.
I particularly like the ‘parallel’ feature of the bible reader on this site, which allows me to see two translations side by side. I’ve got Ty set up with an account, and we are tracking each others’ reading plans, which is kind of fun.
I have recently started to read out loud when I read through the Psalms each day. That way I am ‘hearing’ the Word and reading it! 🙂