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Four Bible Reading Plans for a New Year

Pat Hannon @phannon January 1, 2016 Leave a Comment

Four Bible Reading Plans for a New Year

Happy New Year!

What are your resolutions this year?
There’s a good chance you plan to read the bible more this year.
As you planed last year.

It’s a good resolution. God told Joshua that the path to prosperity and success includes daily study of God’s word.

Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful. – Joshua 1:8

Someone wise said, “Those who fail to plan, plan to fail.” (It may have been Benjamin Franklin. Or Winston Churchill. Or somebody’s business prof.) You need a plan to move your intentions into actions. A bible reading plan can help you succeed in your intention to read the bible more this year.

4 Bible Reading Plans for a New Year

Here are my four favorite bible reading plans. One of these will fit your needs to lead you in reading the bible more this year. *Links updated January 2018*

The Drama of the Bible: A Six-Act Reading Plan
This plan from Biblica leads you through the big story the Bible is telling in about 60 days. This is a great plan for understanding how the different parts of scripture fit into the story of God’s plan for creation.
[ View Here ]

Book-at-a-Time Bible Reading Plan
The Book-at-a-Time Bible Reading Plan from Discipleship Journal guides you through the entire bible in one year.
[ Download Here ]

5x5x5 Bible Reading Plan
Need a plan that requires a smaller time commitment? This plan from Discipleship Journal helps you read the New Testament in 5 minutes a day, 5 days a week.
[ Download Here ]

The Bible in 90 Days
Maybe you’re ready for a reading challenge. Perhaps you want to start 2016 with a bible reading boot camp. With this plan you can read the Bible cover to cover in 90 days.
[ Download Here ]

What’s your plan for Bible reading this year? May God’s word light every step of your path throughout the year!

Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path. -Psalm 119:105

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Pat Hannon @phannon January 8, 2010 Leave a Comment

2010 Resolution: The Year of the Dissertation

There are several goals I really want to make for 2010. You know the routine: health, finances, family, work. However, I am forcing myself to leverage the power of focus and making only one resolution this year. And I am following my own advice by making it public here.

I resolve in 2010 to finish my D.Min. dissertation.

Any tips for living out my resolution?

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Pat Hannon @phannon January 3, 2010 Leave a Comment

The Path of Transformation

Had a great morning today speaking at the Saratoga Church of God about the Path of Transformation. I shared 4 steps along the path from who you are today to who God wants to transform you into.

I often get requests for a recording of this talk. Here’s a version I gave last January at Indiana Wesleyan Chapel.

Click here to listen to The Path of Transformation.

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Pat Hannon @phannon January 2, 2010 Leave a Comment

Living Your Resolutions: 4 Steps to Change Your Life

Living Your Resolutions: 4 Steps to Change Your Life

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Pat Hannon @phannon January 15, 2009 Leave a Comment

4 Steps to Change Your Life

Living Your Resolutions

2009If you’re like most people, by now you’ve broken all your resolutions for the year. I know—many of us have given up on making resolutions all together. Year after year we make resolutions, and promptly break them a few weeks, or days, or hours later. New Year’s Resolutions don’t work. Why even make them?

I still believe in the importance of New Year’s Resolutions. There’s something formative in remembering that we have not yet lived into our potential and planning to do so. The problem is not in making resolutions, but in the way we do so.

Perhaps now is not the time to give up on your resolutions, but to make a new start on them.

So, here are 4 steps to living your resolutions—or 4 steps to changing your life.

1) Commit.

You can make almost any change in your life if you really commit to do so. This is what it means to make a resolution—to resolve to do something. To resolve means to come to a definite or earnest decision; to determine to do something. There’s power in resolve.

Most of us really make New Year’s Wishes. We wish something would change. There’s no power in wishes. Don’t make any wishes this year. Make a resolution—commit to making a change, no matter what.

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