"Not so!" you excliam. "I did read the whole Bible in 1996!"
Well, me too and since then I have read some off and on from time to time. The fact is, if we are to have a dynamic relationship with God, we will need to pray often and spend regular, daily time in His word.
Last summer, I made a discovery that has kept me in the word just about every day. It is a podcast called "The Daily Audio Bible". If you search for it under Religion and Spirituality, it will be the most popular podcast available, for a good reason. It is done very well.
The Daily Audio Bible is the brainchild of Brian Hardin, a music producer living in Nashville, Tennessee. He felt God's call to "podcast the Bible". He assumed this was God's way of keeping him going through the whole thing. Quoting from the bio on his sight, Brian says:
By the first of that next year, I posted my name and email address and invited anyone to join me for the Bible readings honestly thinking about five people would listen. I had about 250 emails before the end of the first day, had 200,000 downloads in six months and now we’re nearing the 40 million download mark.
The original podcast has grown to a website with community chat and forums, a Windfarm 24/7 prayer initiative that has people from all over the world praying continually, a physical Windfarm Cafe that is a coffe shop through the week and a church on Sunday where special speaking events take place, and now an iPhone/iPad app that pulls all of it together.
Every day, he sits down to read, record and publish the podcast. There is a section of Old Testament, New Testament, Psalms and Proverbs, followed by a bit of reflection on what was read, prayer, relevant announcements and a posting of a couple of the community prayer requests that have been called in. I make it my morning commute to work each day. It is usually just under 30 minutes.
I would be inclined to batch record them once a week or so, but that is not how it is done. He is asking you to listen to God's word every day, so he reads it every day, one day at a time.
When you hear it, you may be tempted to dismiss it and tell yourself, you don't need it, or that you don't like it for some reason, but I challenge you to give it a week. Listen every day for one week and you will look forward to listening every day. As a side benefit, you will be spending quality time in God's word every day, stick with it and you will get all the way through the Bible in the most painless way ever created, and most importantly, you will grow your relationship with God.
The website is: www.dailyaudiobible.com
The podcast is: http://itunes.apple.com/podcast/1-year-daily-audio-bible/id111065122
Let me know what you think in the comments. I know you are gonna love it.
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