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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm glad I read the entire Bible. Thank you, Bible in a Year, which is 20-25 minutes daily podcast, so it wasn't a particularly heavy lift for me. While there will be parts I will probably never return to, the journey helped put some of the NT in context.

So I guess my advice would be, it's not urgent, but it's a nice and helpful thing to do. If you need to wait until your kids are in college or until you retire, that's fine. In fact it's probably more than fine because, if you wait, you'll have more time to think about what you're reading.[/quote]

Honestly, what I normally do is listen or read on my phone while I'm running on the treadmill in the mornings before the kids wake up. But some books like the stuff after Proverbs to Matthew is difficult to make it through. I read SoS, and had to take a break, then went back and did Isaiah and took a break, Jeremiah then break, Lamentations and Ezekiel then break. Daniel and then a break. Its so much going on in these books. I think I have just Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum and Habakkuk left.

Maybe this is just the Devil trying to get me to quit when I'm so close to finishing. I'm really finding that I can read many of these remaining books in about 30 minutes each before I start my day. So honestly I could be done by the end of Feb. But then what? I'm not going to go bragging around my church saying "look what I've done". I'm probably just going to go back and read Ephesians 6, Philippians 4, Romans 8, Hebrews 11, etc. But its like I'm running a "marathon" in my back yard. There's no reward for finishing this. I don't even know that I'm getting the understanding that I should be getting. Its one thing to know things that happened and some of the things that are not talked about in church, but I'm not getting the training of a pastor or theology person. I'm just a layperson who's trying to guide his conscience right. [/quote]

I get what you’re saying about the difficulty of sticking with it between Proverbs and Matthew. The Bible in a Year podcast helped me with that because the schedule is the schedule. But even Fr Mike (I’m not Catholic but that doesn’t matter for the podcast) said that he thought this was the hardest part of the Bible.

For me, it wasn’t just checking a box. Well, it might have been a little of that. It definitely wasn’t bragging rights—I think only my family and a friend or two know, and that was because they saw me listening to the podcast and reading the day’s passages. What was it then? I guess I just wanted to know what I was missing, and the only way to get a personal handle on that was to actually read them. For me, like you it seems, much of the prophets weren’t extremely relevant because God’s relationship with us changed in the NT. Now I know that, where I didn’t know it before. Also there are places in Isaiah and Daniel that some say foretold Jesus, and it was useful to read those. It might seem like a lot of work to get here, and it is a lot of work, but at least you’re close.[/quote]

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