New Year Resolutions

Jon reading this morning, while Abigail snuggles!

I don't know that this title is adequate, but for most people it is the time when they make changes in their life. I posted at the beginning of 2010 that our family is in the habit of reading thru the Bible every year together using a NIV Chronological Bible.

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It is like brushing our teeth, it is part of the daily routine. We get up, the kids do their math lessons with Jon, I prepare breakfast, we eat, get ready for our day, and then before we all go our separate ways we read the Bible together. The chronological versions of the Bible separates the scripture into 365 readings in the order scholars think they actually occurred. For example when you get to the gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John and they all tell the same story you would be reading each of those on the same day. For me, I've found it really has helped be understand the course of events better.
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This will not be the only Bible time we have during the day, the kids have done studies on New Testament Survey; Denominational Doctrines; the Reformation Movement; Apocrypha Writings; and studies of various individual books of the Bible. Jon enjoys studying books of the Bible and reading commentaries. Me, I like just about any of the Beth Moore study books or First Place. But our reading in the morning is all of us together reading, every single day!
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Last year the publishing company was changing the cover on the particular publication that we have been reading for the last decade, so I purchased Bibles with the old cover for each of the kids. One day when they go off to college I will pack it along with them and we can all still read together-ish! You don't have to have a chronological Bible to read scripture in the order in which scholars think they occurred there are great reading plans that let you use your current Bible.

Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds;

tie them as symbols on your hands

and bind them on your foreheads.

Deuteronomy 11:18