New Reading Plan (B240X & B180X)

It's week six of B120 and I hope people are keeping up with the reading. If not then still keep it up as you can and as time permits. Trying to catch up can be a real slave master and that's not what it is about.

Meanwhile the feedback of the last months has led to the creation of a new reading plan. It's quite different than what I've seen so far so hopefully it will fill those gaps that keep people from reading and gets them into the Word. However I couldn't come up with a fitting name for it because it's so flexible. I just called it Bible X because X stands for

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Another reading tip for B120

Today week three of B120 will finish and we are heading straight into the fourth week. I hope you all got safe through most of Leviticus. It should be easier reading through it quickly rather than wondering what each of these strange law is all about. It will come together over time, I'm sure.

I was naughty and stuck my nose into judges a bit already (no, I'm not ahead) and noticed something: "Then Samson went down with his father and mother to Timnah, and they came to the vineyards of Timnah. And behold, a young lion came toward him roaring. Then the Spirit of the LORD rushed upon him, and although he had nothing in his hand, he tore the lion in pieces as one tears a young goat." Jdg 14:5-6
Samson - a judge of Israel - young lion!!! Very interesting! "There was a certain man of

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Discipline and Bible reading

Reading through the Bible in 120 days can be quite a challenge for some and so they need to be disciplined that they make the time during the day to read the set text. But there is a fine line between grace-inspired discipline and self-imposed, legalistic 'trying-harder'ism.

Here are two - helpfully - helpful articles if you want to be clear where you stand on this issue and to make sure you enjoy this reading adventure.

Ron Frost - Discipline and the Disciplines 

Glen Scrivener - Disciplines 

Ron Frost on Bible Reading

Today I went to a few seminars run by CorDeo called "Delighted by God". In the break I had the chance to chat Ron Frost about Bible reading and he told me about how he got into the habit of reading through the Bible 2-3 times a year by simply setting aside about 40 minutes every day.

read his thoughts here on his website:
A Spreading Goodness - Bible Read Throughs

if you prefer listening to some of it there is an interview of him with Mike Reeves at theologynetwork.org
God's heart and ours (from minute 51:30) The earlier stuff is great, too!

Jabber from Hux

I bit late but still: Here is a blog that Paul started for the B120 reading. Feel free to click in. 

Jabber From Hux

This blog is a sort of braindump for things that I think. It's speculative, and not deeply thought through. I'm going through Bible120 and will post as and when I feel like it.

First Week Done

Hi all and congratulations for having done the first reading week of B120. I hope you feel less like tabbing yourself on your shoulders and instead simply blessed by having exposed your mind to so much of God's good Word. We don't read the Bible to do God a favour but to have him bless and teach us about his Son. So don't worry if you are behind. Stay encouraged and read what you manage.

I met lots and lots of people during the week who have started the reading. Some invited whole groups of friends to read with them. Others have adapted the reading plan according to their preference and indeed - there is much space for flexibility. It's great to see the excitement on some faces, when they realise that they can get through those 10-12 chapters in less than the time set out by the audio Bible - all without feeling rushed.

By now more than 310 people have downloaded the reading plan for B120 and another 120 people have gone for the B90. It's mainly people from the UK but this website had hits from all over the world except for the arctic poles. How cool is that!?!?!

As you will notice the header of this page will change every Sunday to show the reading of the week. I will also try and keep the audio links up to date in the right hand column. And in order to keep all of us alert while reading, there will be some posts that look at the text of the week ahead to give you confidence in the sufficiency of the Bible, give you something to think about and some encouragements.

Onward in the 2nd week!

Daily Audio Bible: ESV (Day 3)

I only just realised that B120 has gone out into the entire world. Literally every continent seems to have some people who have found their way to this reading community and are also possible doing it. So this audio will hopefully be posted every day at 5am UK Standard Time. But I'm flexible to change that so that those of you who are hours ahead of us can still get the audio in time. Just drop a comment.
UPDATE: Ok, instead of scheduling posts every day, that include this audio stream of the reading, I made a list of links to the right. The reason is that the ESV player either takes to long or that all the players on the page start loading simultaneously, which slows down the page. No need to worry about time zones then. 

ESV Audio: Genesis 15-20; Job 5; Matthew 5-6