Just wanted to get some thoughts on reading GOD’S WORD. Do you think it is important to read it straight through (Genesis to Revelation)? Do you just open it up and start reading? Do you make notes and highlight in your BIBLE? What version/translation do you use? Just wanted to get some input on your habits. Feel free to expand beyond the questions that I asked.

Personally, I normally read Genesis through Revelations in my morning devotional.

At night I try to study through some topic I want to learn more about..

I also have QuickVerse 2007 I really like digging into it.

I alternate between the KJV and NIV, but also have a HCSB (Holman) that I like as well.

I typically asterisk anything I find I want to note in my Bibles.

I heard someone talking about reading through the Bible and he suggested alternating between the Old and New Testament when reading through the Bible, that way you weren’t so long in not reading anything from the New Testament.

There’s no wrong way to do it.  There’s no right way to do it. 

Tony

I don’t do the - read straight thru thing.  It turns it into too much of a “contest” for myself, and not reading necessarily to hear what God is saying to me.

What I do - I attend Bible Study Fellowship. ( have gone for the last 9 years) Each year we cover a different book or topic.  The questions on each weeks’ study take us all over the Bible thru references.  By the end of the 7 year course, you’ve been in all books of the Bible.  I use the NIV, but have several other versions - The message - the Living Bible, RSV, KJV to name a few.

Summers are difficult for me to stay on track as Bible study Fellowship doesn’t meet during the summer.  In past years I was teaching an adult Sunday school class, but we’re now at a new church and I’m not teaching.  So I need to be very intentional about what to read and how to go about it.

PatrickH - 15 April 2008 09:45 AM

Personally, I normally read Genesis through Revelations in my morning devotional.

At night I try to study through some topic I want to learn more about..

I also have QuickVerse 2007 I really like digging into it.

I alternate between the KJV and NIV, but also have a HCSB (Holman) that I like as well.

I typically asterisk anything I find I want to note in my Bibles.

I heard someone talking about reading through the Bible and he suggested alternating between the Old and New Testament when reading through the Bible, that way you weren’t so long in not reading anything from the New Testament.

WOW, talk about a FAST reader!!!, lol, seriously, I go through the old testement a few chapters at a time and same with the new, as you posted above, then I try to read a chapter a day of Proverbs (one for each day of the month) and when I have time, 5 of the Psalms(that gets you through them in a month).

This quite often varies according to the time I have in the morning.

Kelly Fogarty

It took me MANY years, Kelly, to figure out that there were 31 chapters in Proverbs - one for every day of the month!  DUH moment for me!