Power Read the Bible

Power Read the Bible: A Companion Guide for Your 60-Day Journey | Jeff Anderson

HUGE NEWS!!📢😃Calling *all* Litsy family (male, female, Christian, non): If you‘ve ever wanted to read the most popular book of all time—the Bible—this is your chance to buddy read it in just TWO MONTHS!Consider this your official invitation to join me in this adventure: Power Read The Bible In 60 Days With Jeff Anderson. I‘ll be doing this plan on the free YouVersion Bible app https://www.bible.com/app Please share! ⬇️Continued in comments⬇️

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BookBabe A few tips (which come from my experience of reading the Bible in a year ending December 31, 2022):
1. Plan ahead. Set aside a specific time every day designated for your reading and stick to it. Block it off on your calendar and planner, and set a reminder. Making it a daily routine at the same time will set you up for success. 2y

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2. Get up early. If you can get up well before everyone else in your household, you can have peace and quiet before people are needing you, before the phone starts ringing, and before you feel compelled to start your workday. 2y

BookBabe 3. Try not to get behind. It is really hard to get caught up if you get behind (I learned this the hard way!) Do what you need to do to make it work – try to get it all done in the morning, but if you can‘t, finish your day‘s reading during breaks, during lunch, during children‘s naptime if you‘re a stay at home parent, during dinner, at bedtime. 2y

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BookBabe 3. (Cont) Any chance you get. But in my experience, I have found that getting the reading done first thing in the morning is the likeliest way for it to get done. 2y

BookBabe 4. Immersion read. I find that I can read a lot faster and stay focused better if I have somebody reading to me while I‘m reading with my eyes. I don‘t find that listening is sufficient because things distract me and then I don‘t realize how much I missed. 2y

BookBabe 4. (Cont) So I do much better to sit down and be focused, listening and reading visually at the same time. Some people can speed read and stay focused without immersion reading—if that‘s you, I say stick with what works! 2y

BookBabe 5. Speed up the narration if necessary. The creator of this plan estimates that it should take about an hour to read every day. I‘m not a fast reader, but that‘s another reason that immersion reading helps keep me on pace. You also might want to speed up the narration as you listen in the Bible app. 2y

BookBabe 6. Keep annotation super simple. Don‘t try to do a deep study, note taking, or highlighting this go around. I recommend using one color of post-it flags to just mark anything and everything that you want to come back to for any reason – whether to look it up, research it, memorize it, etc. 2y

BookBabe 6. (Cont) Our goal this time is to read it all the way through in just 60 days, so anything that slows us down won‘t be conducive to that goal. 2y

BookBabe 7. Choose the Bible version that is easiest for you to read. Some popular versions for readability are CSB, NIV, and NLT. I recommend choosing a passage (John 1 is a good one, or perhaps Ephesians 4), and comparing the different versions online, at Bible.com (the website of the YouVersion Bible App), or Bible Hub, or your site of choice. 2y

BookBabe 7. (Cont) See which version is the most easily readable for you, and pick that version for this 60-Day Power Read. 2y

BookBabe 8. Post regularly, using #BibleBuddyRead hashtag so we can all see each others bibles, reading setups, and progress! 2y

BookBabe *disclaimer regarding YouVersion: they are owned by LifeChurch pastored by Craig Groeschel, and I have heard that they are not the most biblically sound or biblically discerning. However, though I skip over the daily speaker videos they post, I find the app to be very useful and valuable, 2y

BookBabe and I appreciate that it is completely free and you can access many different Bible versions through it for free, many of which offer free corresponding narration. Please make your own prayerful decision about it and let the Lord lead you.
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BookBabe I‘m so excited to have you join me on this exciting and bold adventure!

(I won‘t be doing official signup forms or tagging everyone this time, due to time constraints. Every minute of my free time needs to go toward reading! However, if anyone has time and wants to volunteer to handle all that, please let me know!) 2y

BookBabe Please share and tag anyone you think might be interested in joining! And please invite your friends who aren‘t yet on Litsy, too! 2y

quirkyreader Get ready to blow your mind with the Bible. 2y

BookBabe @quirkyreader Yes and Amen! 💯%!! 😃🙌🏻 2y

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Daisey I‘ve very much enjoyed this year‘s reading, but my plan is to slow down for next year and delve into some of the books & passages more deeply rather than another complete read. 2y

Allylu I‘m with @Daisey. I don‘t want to do a full reread again next year. @Daisey Let me know what you come up with and I will do the same. 2y

Daisey @Allylu I‘m not planning anything in advance or very specific for now and may use various resources next year. I do plan to randomly continue to share my Bible reading here with the hashtag. 2y

wordslinger42 I have found that, for me, fast-paced reading plans of the Bible aren't fulfilling. I really enjoy savoring and reading slowly whichever book of the Bible I'm reading (right now, that's Daniel and Luke), so this challenge isn't for me. I hope you enjoy it, though, and if you ever do something that's slower paced, please let me know 💜 2y

BookBabe @wordslinger42 @Daisey @Allylu I‘ve heard great things about taking time with a specific book of the Bible — reading it over and over again until it really soaks in, as John MacArthur recommends. 👌🏻 I want to read the Bible many different ways— slowly, quickly, in-depth study, repetition, reading chronologically, and also different versions (as @quirkyreader inspired me to do). 2y

quirkyreader @Daisey and @Allylu an idea for 2023 could be to focus on Paul‘s letters. I try to do an in-depth study of one letter a year. 2y

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