Year in the Bible Week 1

Raphael’s “Noah Building the Ark”

Happy New Year! Hopeful New Year! Stronger New Year! Better New Year!

Welcome to Year in the Bible! Remember the four words above - happy, hopeful, stronger, and better - as you read daily. Research has shown that daily bible reading makes you happier, more hopeful, stronger in your faith, and better making choices. Do your best to keep up with the readings! This week we cover a lot of historical ground in a short period of time, so if you miss a day you’ll already feel the sting of being behind. Don’t worry, you can catch up! Christy Wilson found a neat way to catch up last year by going to YouVersion and choosing the audio option, which you can do in the shower, or while you drive, or whenever you can throughout a day. Hopefully you can find a time and place where you can just be with the Word every day, and you’ll find that those fifteen minutes become something you long for all the time.

This week we will do much of the story in Genesis, with supporting scripture from Chronicles. In the January 2 readings we see a great example of how this plan works. After we hear about Noah’s family from Genesis, we see it repeated concisely in 1 Chronicles, then we return to Genesis and finish the story. This happens over and over in the chronological plan, and it’s one of my favorite things about this method. It gives me a great sense of each moment in history, and repetition of certain facts and stories adds emphasis to them for me.

Let me know how you’re doing! Shoot me a message or an email and ask any questions you have. I’ll try to find good answers and post them.

IF YOU ARE READY TO START THE PLAN WITH US, JUST GO TO www.artistministries.org/year-in-the-bible and you’ll find all the info you need. You’ll be glad you did this!