To help you in your personal growth or within a family or friends, here are some resources that may be useful:
Bible Reading Guides
There are many wonderful plans to guide one’s regular reading of the Bible. And great idea is to pick a plan to do with a friend or relative.
- M’Cheyne Bible Reading Plan: http://www.edginet.org/mcheyne/printables.html
- Ligonier Ministry: https://www.ligonier.org/posts/bible-reading-plans includes a variety of downloadable and printable plans
- Bible Gateway: https://www.biblegateway.com/reading-plans/ includes the ability to sign up for daily emails for each day’s reading
- Bible Reading Plan Generator at https://biblereadingplangenerator.com/ where you can create your own plan!
- Read the New Testament with 1 chapter a day, Monday through Friday (with weekends as a time for catchup or other readings) **** Needs update
- Read the New Testament only, NT and OT, or Old Testament once and New Testament twice with this guide. This PDF is designed to be printed back to back and assembled as a booklet, so the pages are in an unexpected order if you print it without back to back.
- Read through the whole Bible over 3 years.
- Bible Reading Checklist or Bible Reading Chart, to read through the Bible at any rate.
Creative ways to engage the Bible
- The Gospel of Mark, enacted by Mac MacLean
- Listening to a dramatized reading of the Bible: go to https://www.biblegateway.com/, select a passage, then click on the speaker icon, then click on the list of audio options in the middle, and choose NIV by Dramatized
Bible Memory
- Bible memory app (by Pastor John)
- Topical Memory System: verse to memorize by the Navigators
Prayer Guides
Weekly template: http://tiny.cc/CMCWeeklyPrayerTemplate: Open this template (in Microsoft Word) and create your weekly schedule for prayer.