The Narrow Path Ministries

I've been trying for some time to get my wife interested in bible reading and study and it's just not happening. She wants to have everything simplified and the information has to contain practical value, so theory is not her thing. Is there a devotional bible that might suit her tastes? I've never actually used a devotional bible but I know a lot of Christians find them useful for some daily "feeding."

Also, does anyone else have this problem with their spouse? I'm very much into theology and philosophy but the wife thinks it's all incredibly boring. How do you get them interested in daily bible reading?

JC,

Same situation here. My wife thinks Chritianity is simple. Imagine that! Although its not a bible, she enjoys "Our Daily Bread". Are you familiar with it?

The Serendipity Bible might be interesting to her.

my mom just gave my wife and i a "one year bible" for christmas. i know mom reads through hers once a year. i have done it before on my palm pilot, but i really like the set-up of the One-year bible and i plan to use it. you get an OT passage, NT passage, a Psalms passage and a Proverbs passage everyday. everything is laid out for you, so you dont need to jump around. it looks like each day's reading is about 4 pages; it says it should only take around 15 minutes per day to do that day's reading.

my wife is similarly non-interested in spending tons of time studying or discussing theology. she reads her bible, and some collateral books, but doesnt get into the kind of stuff that goes on here in the forum. she has a simple faith which is a good counterbalance to all the extraneous things that interest me.

TK

Hi JC,

I don't know if your wife would go for this or not, but an acquaintance of mine, Winn Griffin, is launching a free email-based program to read through the Bible in 100 days, but not in the fragmented way that it's typically done. He incorporates a new Bible that has recently been published by the International Bible Society called "The Books of the Bible". I've got one and I really like it. The chapter and verse numbers have been removed, so it reads more like a book. Also some of the books have been reordered to make it more chronological.

Here's the website for "The Books of the Bible":
http://thebooksofthebible.info/main.php

Winn is one of my favorite Bible teachers (along with Steve Gregg and N.T. Wright) and has had a big influence on me.

Here's Winn's announcement. I forwarded this to my sister, who is not a Christian, and was pleasantly surprised when she replied that she had signed up for it because it looked interesting to her.

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Defrag Your Bible Reading

Just a note to let you know that I have launched a "Reading the Bible
Without Additives in 100 Days" web site to help folks read through the
Bible Without Additives in about 100 days using "The Books of The
Bible," which is a presentation of Today's New International Version
(TNIV) of the Bible published by International Bible Society.

The new year is just around the corner and some folks are beginning to
think about their Bible reading plan for the next year, well some folks,
but not all.

Every "Read Through the Bible in a Year" plan fragments the reading of
the text by suggesting that you read two chapters from one book and one
chapter from another book. That just doesn't make any sense. Nobody
reads books that way, except for the Bible.

We can correct this errant way of reading the books of the Bible by
reading them with their own internal structures.

If you are an average reader (about 250 words a minute ), you can read
the whole Bible in about 70 hours. That's right, about 70 hours and I
have broken that 70 hours up into 100 readings for 100 days following
the Bible's own internal structure.

For more information on defragging your Bible reading or to signup go to
the following link:

http://www.gen2rev.com/readingthebiblesignup/

Warmly,

Winn
drwinn@drwinn.com

Thanks for posting that, Danny. I signed up for the 100 day thingy and bought one of those Bibles. I kind of like reading and studying the Bible ...when did I go wrong?