Bible 365 - Overview

Bible 365 - Introduction and Overview

Produced by The Listening for God Ministry
Copyright 2019

The purpose of this blog is to encourage you to join fellow Bible students on a 365 day tour of the Christian Bible. If you join for the whole trip you will be reading every chapter and verse, from Genesis to Revelation, divided into daily rations that are relatively easy to digest. You can reference the Table of Contents below for the 1-year plan or go at your own pace.

Table of Contents

Click the Table of Contents link to review what we have been studying and then click on a link for any day to to see that day's material.

What They Said

We have had great feedback during our first six months into the study:

"This is an impressive study!"
"I have found it to be a blessing!"
"I think what you have been doing on Listening for God is great as is Bible 365"
"I continue to read, enjoy, and am nourished by your study course"

Our participants have also been providing their own insights, which we eventually work back into the comments and have pointed out the occasional missing link, which we correct as soon as possible. Please join us!

A Varied Pace

The first book of the Bible begins at an extremely fast pace as a lot of significant events happens within a few short passages. Consequently our study will reflect this pace. The Bible continues on this sprint through the through the first five books, known as the Pentateuch. Subsequent chapters have some overlap for reinforcement and then become very reflective. We will spend a good portion of the middle of the year reading Psalms, Proverbs, Prophets, books that are well suited for long hot days when life might slow down a little bit.

One Student Helping Another

Do you remember any classroom situations where you needed help and found that your fellow students were actually a better resource than the teacher or professor? Why is that? CS Lewis explains this phenomenon in his book on Psalms, noting that it’s often easier for one student to explain because he or she has just learned it himself or herself and knows what it’s like to struggle. That’s our perspective in this blog. We are students sharing notes with you, our friends (and friends of friends).

Best Practice

In each blog entry we will give you a summary of the chapters for that day and an interpretation based on views of other commentators and our own thoughts.

We recommend that you read the full passages in the Bible either before or after reading the blog and decide for yourself what it means for you. We reference multiple versions of the Bible, but encourage you to use whichever version best suits you. The original written form of the Bible was in Ancient Hebrew, Ancient Greek, and Aramaic. Exact translations are difficult because of language, style, and context that are foreign to modern readers. Hence, each translator or team of translators sets out to provide the most accurate representation into modern languages, but their own assumptions and interpretations result in different words and phrases. Therefore, reading multiple versions helps us to have a better perspective.

Maybe after reading one or more versions you draw the same conclusions that we have regarding the passage for the day or maybe you conclude something different. Perhaps there is a distinct message for you that does not apply to all of the rest of us. We invite you to share your thoughts on the blog for that day by email, comments page, or Twitter.

At the beginning of each book of study we will share with you the references used in preparing the study so that you can read deeper into those commentators observations or find other analysis.

Let's Go!

We started the first tour on January 1st, 2011 and began each subsequent version on January 1st of the following years. If you missed some days you can go back and catch up, or just join us where we are and perhaps read the beginning chapters next year.

Listening For God

A Ministry for Encouraging People to Listen for God in their Daily Lives