When I was in college - quiet times came easy, time seemed to be abundant and I read my Bible through cover-to-cover several, several times...now that I'm a mom...finding that time to read daily is sometimes a struggle. Last year, Brad & I started reading a read-through-in-a-year plan in January, and did great until April...or was it June...and then we fell behind and never caught back up. I don't even remember what really happened, except that we were typically reading at night and life just got busy.This year, I knew I wanted one of my goals to be to get back on track with my Bible reading, I just didn't know what plan could/would best make that happen. I read a little here and there and then back at the end of January I found BibleShared. I was immediately excited as blog accountability seems to work for me!
I immediately signed up and started reading. I love that I can read the Bible in any order I want and simply record my progress as I go (last week I was reading in Humility and Mahaney referenced Habakkuk, so I stopped and quickly read those 3 chapters to better grasp the his point - I didn't have to wait for the summertime to roll around for Habakkuk to come up in my yearly reading plan.) I can read while online or I can read offline and record my progress after the fact. I also love that they have a widget I can put in my sidebar so that anybody can see how I'm doing - that motivates me.
As a mom of 2, it's often difficult to find time to sit down and read my Bible for 15 minutes (or more) at a time...however I'm on my computer all day long. Using Firefox, I simply keep my BibleShared page up in a separate tab, and periodically throughout the day I pop over to it and read a chapter or 2. Wow - what a difference that has made! In only 18 days of using their service, I've already read 90 chapters - or 7% of the Bible. Yippee!! And, on my progress page, BibleShared tells me that if I continue to read at my current rate of 5 chapters/day, I'll finish the Bible in 219.8 days. That's really exciting for me, because it tells me that I can finish the Bible this year!
If you want more great WFMW ideas, head on over and see Shannon @ RocksinmyDryer - and head's up...this is Shannon's last week hosting before she passes the torch on over to Kristen! Enjoy!
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I'll have to check it out. Sometimes the only Bible reading I get in is my girls' Bible stories I read before bed. Thanks for the tip.
Oh, I love it! I'd never heard of that site before. Thanks! =)
~Kate
"Which Proverbs 14:1 Woman?"
http://proverbs14-1.blogspot.com
first time for me..I usually go to Biblegateway.com every morning for the verse of the day..this is a neat system!
Great tip. I'm not familiar with that site, but it sounds like a great tool. You are definitely right, Bible time with little ones is hardly a solid 15 minute time period.
This year I have also joined a blogging community to read through the Bible in a year. This is a little more structured, but each day a contributor highlights a verse from the passage with some application and a prayer. It is great to pull out one particular promise or challenge to carry with throughout the day. Here's the site:
http://66books.wordpress.com/
Thanks for sharing that site. You can never have too much support to be in the Word!
Wow! I really like this idea. Thanks for sharing it!
Way to go Jodi. I'm doing fairly well with my reading but am behind, as always these days. thanks for these websites - i'll check it out!
neat little site! accountability is wonderful and is nice to have blog feature for it.
That is really neat - thank you!!
Hello, Nick from BibleShared.com here ;-)
Thanks for the positive feedback! Let me know if there's anything that would make the site better or easier to use. I'm ramping up to do a big round of bug fixes / new features / speed optimizations and general clean-up this summer.
You can submit comments or suggestions here: http://bibleshared.com/bugit.asp
Or I'll just keep watching your blog and see what you have to say.
Keep up the good work, you're making excellent progress! I read through super fast the first time using BibleShared, and I'm taking it slow my second time around.
Jodi, Thank you for letting us know about BibleShared. I just signed up, and now my husband wants to, too. I have Issues with consistency, but I don't seem to have a problem checking blogs...for shame! I hope this keeps me on my toes & in the Word!
thank you soooo much for posting this!!! I can bet this will make a huge difference for me!!!
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