Hi all!
I hope your Christmas with family and friends was as pleasant as ours. 2023 is just a few days away and it's time to think about plans for studying the bible next year. For 2023, I want to make a lot of great things available to you so you can easily plan your year of study.
Traditional Reading Plans:
- New Testament only plan - This plan is called the 5x5x5 plan. 5 minutes a day, 5 days a week, 5 ways to dig deeper. 5x5x5 Plan
- The whole bible in 90 days - Pretty straightforward, read the whole bible in 90 days. 90 Day Plan
- Chronological Order - Read in the order of chronological events. Chronological Plan
- Historical Order - Read in the order the books were written. Historical Plan
- Discipleship Journal Reading Plan - In this plan you will read 25 days a month, you choose the days. Each day you will read from 4 categories: Gospels, Epistles, Wisdom Literature, and Everything else Old Testament. Discipleship Journal Reading Plan
Non-Traditional Plan: (This is the one I am doing in 2023!)
- The Bible Telling Story of the Day - sign up here: www.bibletelling.org - When you arrive on the homepage scroll down to where it says: (Enter your email to receive the BibleTelling Story of the day delivered straight to your inbox.) Enter you email address in the space provided and press "Subscribe." That's it, sit back and wait for your daily emails to begin!
What you will receive: An email delivered Monday-Friday to your inbox with:
- Video telling of The Story of the Day (different presenters including John Walsh.)
- Link to additional content (drama, storyboard, maps, etc.)
- A story insights video
- A link to hear the story told (audio only)
- The written text of the
In the fall of 2022, Lydia and I met John Walsh and his wife. He has a passion for storytelling and oral transmission of the biblical texts. (She has a passion for ESL which is why we actually met!) Oral telling of biblical stories is extremely useful around the world and in the U.S. in a variety of situations (prison, illiterate, missions, times and places where a verbal witness is possible but there's no bible handy to name a few.) John set out on a journey several years ago to identify all the stories of the bible, 260 to be exact. Here are a few paragraphs about him and his work:
BibleTelling: (from the book he wrote)
Seventy five percent of the Bible is written in story format, which makes it easy to read and understand. So why do most people have a hard time understanding the Bible?Well, it would be easier if you could sit in an easy chair by the fire and listen to someone tell them to you; or possibly go out on the back deck during a warm summer evening and listen while sipping on a glass of ice tea.That is how this book is written. It uses a ‘telling format’ for ease of reading or listening. It puts all the stories in chronological order, eliminating duplicates. All of this is done in common everyday language.Oh, nothing has been skipped over because it is offensive. All the “dirty laundry” of the Bible is included. If you read through all these stories, you are going to get the whole story, as given to us by the original writers.There may come a point when you ask yourself, “Is that really in the Bible? I don’t remember that.” We have made it easy for you to check it out for yourself because every story has a scripture reference. This will help you explore the Bible in a whole new way.So start at the beginning and take it one story at a time. In that way you will get the entire Story of God.
Who is John Walsh:
John Walsh is an author, speaker, and professional storyteller. He is the founder of BibleTelling, an organization dedicated to using Bible stories for evangelism and discipleship. John is an expert at helping people learn and tell Bible stories. Those involved in BibleTelling travel around the world, speaking at conventions and conducting trainings for missionaries, pastors, teachers, and Christian workers. They go into prisons providing programs that change the atmosphere of the prison. They provide ESL (English as Second Language) programs, and Adult Literacy programs based on Bible stories. BibleTelling has lesson plans for adults, children, and young people. Along with this book, John has authored The Art of Storytelling, a practical guide on how to develop the skill of storytelling; Successful Living, studies in the book of Proverbs; and I’m not a Duck, memories of a few times God interfered with John’s plans.
Most of what John has written is for sale on Amazon, however you can download most of it from his website for free in PDF format. You can get more information here: bibletelling.org
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