It’s our prayer that each person at Harbor Church would understand the grand narrative of the gospel: God’s plan to glorify himself by saving sinful people like us from his deserving judgment, through the grace of Jesus Christ. We need to know God’s story so we can know where we fit into it, and the only way to understand it is to see it from beginning to end—from creation in Genesis to final redemption in Revelation.
Over the course of the next year, we’ll be reading through the entire Old Testament, and the New Testament and Psalms twice. This is a huge step for people like us who are over-scheduled with activities, over-reliant on zoned- out “me-time,” and under-experienced in making big commitments. If you find this too fast a pace, then read the first two passages listed for each day in the first year, and the last two passages in the second year. You’ll then read the entire New Testament and half of the Old each year.
Theologian and pastor D.A. Carson built on M’Cheyne’s foundation by writing short devotionals based on each day’s readings.Those devotionals are now published as a daily blog, which you can access at the link below. You can subscribe to the daily devotionals by email, if you’d like to automatically receive them in your inbox each morning. This can be an excellent reminder and aid to your own self-discipline.
The prayer of Harbor’s elders is that you would be encouraged and strengthened over the year ahead. “Open our eyes, that we may behold wondrous things out of your law, oh Lord!” (Psalm 119:18)
2012 Bible Reading Plan (pdf)