Reading the Bible in 2020

As the year is winding down and you’re preparing for 2020, have you considered how you will spend time engaging God in his Word next year? In his book When I Don’t Desire God, John Piper gives 10 benefits of reading the Bible:

• The Word of God Awakens and Strengthens Faith

• Through Hearing the Word, God Supplies the Holy Spirit

• The Word of God Creates and Sustains Life

• The Word of God Gives Hope

• The Word of God Leads Us to Freedom

• The Word of God Is the Key to Answered Prayer

• The Word of God Is the Source of Wisdom

• The Word of God Gives Us Crucial Warnings

• The Word of God Enables Us to Defeat the Devil

• The Word of God Is the Source of Great and Lasting Joy

BIBLE READING PLANS

We want to help you prepare for a year of spiritual growth. So here are a number of different Bible reading plans to guide you as you read scripture in 2020. Click the links for a PDF of each plan and find one that works for you. As a church, let’s be filled with and shaped by God’s word together:

• 5x5x5 Bible Reading Plan (5 days a week for one year)

• Chronological Bible Reading Plan (365 days)

• M’Cheyne One-Year (365 days)

• 6-Month New Testament (182 days)

• A Psalm a Day (150 days)

• A Proverb a Day (31 days)

• 30 Days in the New Testament (30 days)

• Three Year Bible Reading Plan

• The Greatest Story Ever Told (80 Readings that Capture the Grand Narrative of Scripture)
  Grab a reading plan at the resource table during our Sunday Gathering.

• If you prefer reading the Bible on your tablet or phone, simply go to ESV.org and click on the calendar icon near the top right corner of the page. This will open the reading plan pane, which features 18 interactive reading plans—all accessible with a free account.
  

As a church, let’s be filled with and shaped by God’s Word together in 2020!