Bible Reading Plan 2012 – January to May

I’ve been working on Bible reading plans for a few years now.  I want something that will walk me through the Bible with the calendar year, or very close to it.  I also want something that will walk my children through the Bible with me, allowing us to celebrate festivals, holidays, special days of faith as a family.  This will give us unique celebrations to look forward to – like Lent, Ascension Day, Pentecost, Advent, and holidays that Jesus would have celebrated.  This way it’s not just Christmas and Easter that allow us to give a special focus on faith matters.  This way we can celebrate our faith the whole year long, and make it fun for our family.

This year I hope to keep going with reading a portion of scripture in my own quiet time, then sharing a similar story (or as close to it as I can get) from the Upper Room Children’s Bible Stories book.  I’m just using resources I have on hand.  Last year we started out by using the One Year Children’s Bible, and that was a good book as well.  I’m going for something with stories that are a little shorter this year – because mornings are crazy in our house, because I want to encourage the boys to read the stories instead of me or Josh, and because I want to spend a minute looking up the story in the Bible and getting the boys used to the different books of the Bible.

Here is the first few months (January to May) of my Bible Reading Plan 2012.

This gets us through a few books of the Old Testament and all of the New Testament.

I will post more about Lent as it gets closer, and the rest of the plan closer to June.

I am still very focused on the Shema – Deuteronomy 6:5-9.  I’m especially thinking about the passage in verse 7:  ”Impress [God's commandments] on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.”  I hope to spend a few minutes in the mornings learning God’s word and which words are in which books of the Bible.  Then before bed, coming together again as a family and reading a life-application devotional story together.  These along with prayer, and hopefully scripture memorization.  And I’m always aware these days of the “Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road” aspect as well – faith, God, Bible – all a part of our lives as we live them out.  Not just isolated conversations at home around the table, but conversations that break out of the plan, spontaneous, free – just learning and talking about God together – wherever, whenever.

Blessings on you as this new year begins – may it be such a GOOD one in Him!

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