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Reading Through The Bible in 2021 - Together!
Hey there and Happy New Year!
This new year kind of crept up on us, and so I find myself writing to you -- somewhat tardily -- on New Year’s day with our plan for FCC daily readings together for 2021. For some of you, this may the very first time, but it’s probably not an overstatement to suggest that, if there’s ever been a year to read the Bible all the way through, this one would the year to start!
We’ve used many different plans over the years with our default being the Chronological Bible. Some of us love this (it’s one of my favorites), but some find it hard because we don’t arrive at the New Testament until late September! I get this, so we’ve tried to switch it up from time to time to answer our one objective -- reading the Bible through at least once every year -- in fresh and helpful ways.
I did some snooping this week and came across an old classic. It was devised by a young, 19th Century Scottish minister by the name of Robert M’Cheyne, who lived from 1813-1843. Pastor M’Cheyne prepared a plan for Bible reading to take his congregation through the New Testament and Psalms twice, and the rest of the Bible once, each year. As I mentioned, his plan has become a classic and been used by hundreds of thousands of Christians over the past two centuries. There are approximately four chapters per day in this plan. Originally Pastor M’Cheyne listed two columns labeled “Family” and two labeled “Secret”. His suggestion was that the passages in the “Family” column might be used as readings for family devotions, and that those in the “Secret” columns would be good for private, personal devotions. In the attached plan, we left these columns out as we know the entire Bible is suitable for reading!
I’d like to humbly offer this as our FCC Bible Reading plan for 2021.
Click here (2021 Reading Plan) to get started with a downloadable file that can be printed out and folded to fit inside your Bible. We’ll also print these out and make them available at the church. If you’d like a daily e-mail reminder, click this link and sign yourself up (Daily E-Mail Reminder). One additional resource for those who like to hear the Bible in audio, Crossway books is offering the M’Cheyne reading plan as a daily podcast, reading the plan’s chapters each day. Search for it on Apple Podcasts -- under Crossway -- or go to this website to subscribe (Daily Reading Podcast)
Love serving you,
Dean
This new year kind of crept up on us, and so I find myself writing to you -- somewhat tardily -- on New Year’s day with our plan for FCC daily readings together for 2021. For some of you, this may the very first time, but it’s probably not an overstatement to suggest that, if there’s ever been a year to read the Bible all the way through, this one would the year to start!
We’ve used many different plans over the years with our default being the Chronological Bible. Some of us love this (it’s one of my favorites), but some find it hard because we don’t arrive at the New Testament until late September! I get this, so we’ve tried to switch it up from time to time to answer our one objective -- reading the Bible through at least once every year -- in fresh and helpful ways.
I did some snooping this week and came across an old classic. It was devised by a young, 19th Century Scottish minister by the name of Robert M’Cheyne, who lived from 1813-1843. Pastor M’Cheyne prepared a plan for Bible reading to take his congregation through the New Testament and Psalms twice, and the rest of the Bible once, each year. As I mentioned, his plan has become a classic and been used by hundreds of thousands of Christians over the past two centuries. There are approximately four chapters per day in this plan. Originally Pastor M’Cheyne listed two columns labeled “Family” and two labeled “Secret”. His suggestion was that the passages in the “Family” column might be used as readings for family devotions, and that those in the “Secret” columns would be good for private, personal devotions. In the attached plan, we left these columns out as we know the entire Bible is suitable for reading!
I’d like to humbly offer this as our FCC Bible Reading plan for 2021.
Click here (2021 Reading Plan) to get started with a downloadable file that can be printed out and folded to fit inside your Bible. We’ll also print these out and make them available at the church. If you’d like a daily e-mail reminder, click this link and sign yourself up (Daily E-Mail Reminder). One additional resource for those who like to hear the Bible in audio, Crossway books is offering the M’Cheyne reading plan as a daily podcast, reading the plan’s chapters each day. Search for it on Apple Podcasts -- under Crossway -- or go to this website to subscribe (Daily Reading Podcast)
Love serving you,
Dean
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Prayer - 8:45am
LiveStream begins - 9:00am
Worship Celebration & Classes for Kids - 9:15am
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