Happy New Year!

It’s so odd for me to say that it’s now 2025.  That’s the kind of date that I used on strategic planning documents in the late 1990s when I wanted to pick a date “really far out in the future”.

Now it’s what I have to write when I sign a check (and yes, I do that occasionally).

Apart from the strangeness of a new year, this is the time to deal with something really strange… moving from Revelation to Genesis.

Yep, with a new year it’s time to restart the Bible Reading plan again. It was fun to be almost at the end of the book.  It can be a bit of a hard pill to swallow to jump back to the beginning.

I’ve got a recommendation for you, if you want to make reading your Bible easy, you should check out my recommendations here:  
https://www.dennis-stevenson.com/resources/oneyearbible/

* This is the easiest way possible to read your Bible. I kid you not. It makes it as easy as reading a novel. The Bible is literally organized by date and you read until it says tomorrow’s date.  Then you stop.

* I’ve linked two different versions of the Bible this way.  One does the classic Old Testament : Psalms : Proverbs : New Testament format.  The other is a CHRONOLOGICAL Bible – and I think that’s the Bee’s Knees! I’m doing my third year in this Bible in 2025. Just seeing the chronology will teach you about the Bible in wonderful new ways.

* If you fall behind (and it happened to me last year), it’s SOOOO easy to find today’s date and pick up reading again just like nothing happened. 

Honesty moment here.  I didn’t read on January 1.  So it was pretty simple to just keep turning the pages and read January 1 and 2 this morning.

* If you want to drench your year in God’s Word, this is the most basic and important thing you can do. Biblical illiteracy is running rampant around the world today. Don’t be a part of that statistic. 

* Even if you’ve read the Bible before – it’s not a checklist, it’s a lifestyle. It’s something you should do every day for the rest of your life. Think about brushing your teeth.  Its no good if you do it just once. Or sporadically.  Or infrequently. Same thing for reading the Bible.

You don’t have to click to my website to see what my recommendations are. Maybe you have another system you want to try.  That’s fantastic! Do it.  Lean in and read away.

But don’t fall into to the trap of thinking “I’ve got to find the perfect system and then I’ll start.” That way lies spiritual malaise. You could spend a lifetime looking and thinking “maybe there’s something better out there….”

But then you’ve spent a lifetime not reading God’s word. How will that feel when you meet Jesus face to face?

Some will think I’ve gone overboard on this topic. That I’m being too pushy or aggressive on it. Fine. I’m willing to offend some if it means that others will pick up their Bible and plan to read it through in 2025.

I don’t know how to make it any easier for you. Click the link, buy the Bible, when it comes, find the date and start reading.

It will change your life like nothing else.