Found this on Bible Gateway. Copied part of the article to save time! An initial approach to incorporating the Bible into your life’s routine and rhythm is to intentionally not make it an arduous task. The following are some ideas I’ve used in my own life to help keep the Bible front and center. 1. Do you have a tear-off-a-day calendar in your kitchen? Make it a Bible verse calendar to glance at while you’re toasting your bread. 2. Instead of listening to the radio as you commute to work or drive around town, listen to a CD or MP3 recording of the Bible being read. Find a version that’s audibly understandable to you. Enjoy the read. Let it frame your general point of view in those moments, even if you don’t grasp every detail or remember every verse. 3. Sign up to receive a free daily Bible verse in your inbox so it’s automatically there for you whenever you check your email. Forward it to a friend who would benefit from its message. 4. Download a mobile Bible app so it’s easy for you to open your tablet or smartphone and skim a Bible passage (or listen to its audio version) while you queue at the store or are in your doctor’s waiting room. Take it with you to church and refer to it while the sermon is being preached. Easy on; easy off (and easy locating a minor prophet like Zephaniah without having to flip through hundreds of printed pages). 5. Keep BibleGateway open in a tab on your desktop’s browser and click to it when you hear or read a news story that could be contextualized from a biblical viewpoint. And pray for the people at the center of that news. 6.As these methods work their way into your everyday tasks, you may find yourself ready for a little more structure: follow a prepared Bible reading plan that could be as brief as verses grouped together around a specific topic, to reading the complete Bible in a set number of days. This might be when you actually commit yourself to an explicit time and place in which you’ll encounter the Bible. Just as you brush your teeth every morning after getting out of bed, determine you’ll include the Bible in your personal well-being and healthful repetition. If you’ve scheduled a reading plan on a mobile app, let it remind you every day to access it. Today’s technology can be an onerous time-sucker or it can be a liberating change-agent that helps you engage the Bible and make it an excitedly natural part of your daily 1,440 minutes! David Hudson Southern Indiana Area Director 812 345-5024
Posted on: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 14:16:18 +0000
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