Archive for December 2007

Visit www.esv.org/biblereadingplans for a list of all eight one-year Bible reading plans offered by Crossway. New this year are the reading plans found in the Outreach Bible and Outreach New Testament. The latter takes you through the New Testament in six months.
Read each plan on the web, through RSS, by email, or print out the [...]

Matthew at River City Redemption Project explains how he’s going to read his Bible in 2008:
For the last 10 years I have read the Bible through every year in a different translation (NIV, NKJV, RSV, NRSV, NEB, NASB, JB, ESV, The Message, and the NLT). Next year, however, I think I’m going to try [...]

Kristin at In View of God’s Mercy Offer Yourself writes about her surprise that a new leather Bible cost around $70. But her “grumbling” soon gave way:
Around that time… the voice in my head goes… are you seriously complaining about how much the Word of God costs?
I realized then that there are people in [...]

Tony at Said at Southern Seminary explains his project for winter break: reading through the entire Bible in January.
My favorite Seminary isn’t offering any classes I need this January, so I’ve been looking for a study project. It occurred to me that I could read the entire Bible in a month if I maintained the [...]

Stephen at The Blazing Center lists eight ways to get more from your daily Bible reading. His main points are:

Prepare the night before
Pray
Same time, same place every day
Keep track of what you read
Write in your Bible
Read consecutively
Use a journal
Respond to what you’ve read

Via Challies.com.

RC at The Reformed Parishoner has added a link to an ESV reading plan to his site, as many bloggers have done. What’s particularly interesting, though, are his reasons for doing so. He calls the link on his site “Bible before Blogdom” to remind his readers that they shouldn’t prioritize reading blogs over reading the [...]

Jason at Coffee Blog shares how the ESV has illuminated aspects of Isaiah 14 for him and his Sunday School group. About the ESV he says:
One thing that I’ve come to appreciate more and more with the ESV is its clarity and lack of need to argue with the translation…. It’s truly amazing how a [...]

The ESV is now available on Kindle, the new ebook reader from Amazon, for $9.99.
Wayne at Better Bibles Blog noted that the ESV wasn’t available when Kindle launched. The main reason is that we wanted to test the ESV on an actual Kindle to provide the best possible experience of the ESV on Kindle.
The [...]