Announcement: Seeds of Faith will read the Bible in a Year for 2025
In 2025, I’m inviting Seeds of Faith readers on a journey through the Bible in a year. Our resource is a Bible Reading Plan from the Navigators ministry. It’s one I’ve used several times to read the Bible in a year. There are a couple of features I particularly like.
First, it alternates between the Old Testament and New Testament on a book-by-book basis, so we read Genesis first, then the Gospel of Mark, then Exodus, then the Acts of the Apostles, and so forth. Personally, I have found this variety effective in sustaining my motivation and engagement.
Second, there are six readings per week and a total of twenty-five readings per month. This builds in a break day (or catch-up day) each week and catch-up or review days each month. I enjoy the rhythm of reading scripture personally for six days, then encountering scripture on Sunday with the church in worship.
Finally, if you want to (as I am doing) create what I call a “Legacy Bible,” you can order a “Journal the Word” Bible, which includes larger margins for notes. I underline or circle passages, adding thoughts, prayers, other scripture references, or quotations in the margin. It’s not creating a biblical commentary so much as creating a record of my interaction with the Bible over a year. When I’ve read and journaled all the way through, I have it to give to one of my children. You can give it to grandchildren, nieces/nephews, children of a friend, etc.—someone you’d like to bless, or keep it on your shelf. It’s a way to create a keepsake of your own interaction with God’s Word or so that someone else may read the Bible with you in future years.
For 2025, I’ll share thoughts on a passage from my readings that day. If you want to share from yours, please do in the comments. If you want to embark on reading the Bible in a year (and possibly creating a Legacy Bible), my prayer is that Seeds of Faith can be a companion on your way. If not, I hope you are blessed by the readings.
In order to prepare for this undertaking, I’ll be taking time away from daily posts until we begin, so Seeds of Faith will be off for a little while.
Just keep subscription to Seeds of Faith and posts will come back up in your email (make sure it’s saved to your contacts and in your primary inbox tab to ensure you see it) or in your Substack app. I’ll see you in a month and a half!
***Day 1 will begin on Monday, December 30.***
Please share this with anyone who might be blessed by this journey through God’s Word.
Resources:
Journal the Word Bible (optional, also available on Amazon or other sites)
Sharpie felt tip pens (best I have found for writing in the Bible without smears or bleeding through pages)
The Essential Bible Companion (If you’d like a one-volume resource with key background information on each book of the Bible, this one is excellent)
Scripture: Psalm 1
1 Blessed is the one
who does not walk in step with the wicked
or stand in the way that sinners take
or sit in the company of mockers,
2 but whose delight is in the law of the Lord,
and who meditates on his law day and night.
3 That person is like a tree planted by streams of water,
which yields its fruit in season
and whose leaf does not wither—
whatever they do prospers.4 Not so the wicked!
They are like chaff
that the wind blows away.
5 Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,
nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.6 For the Lord watches over the way of the righteous,
but the way of the wicked leads to destruction.
Observation:
Blessedness comes from delighting in and meditating on the Word of God. The word “law” can also be translated “instruction,” including instructions through commands but also through stories. When we delight in and meditate on the scriptures, we are “like a tree planted by streams of water.” We grow fruitful, healthy, and strong.
I hope you enjoy a journey through the Bible in a year in 2025.
Application:
Have you ever tried to read the Bible in a year? How did it go? What worked? What was difficult?
What else might the Holy Spirit be speaking with you about in the text today?
Prayer: Lord, grow me in your word that I may be healthy, strong, and fruitful for you. Amen.
“But the seed falling on good soil refers to someone who hears the word and understands it. This is the one who produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.” (Matthew 13:23)
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I have “journaled” the Bible with you before and it is an excellent way to study the Word and make it stick! I look forward to another journey in 2025!