Shawn and I are taking a journey through the Bible this year and so far, it has been amazing!! My awesome friend and mentor, Melissa Gibbs, launched a challenge at the end of 2009 for all those wanting to walk through the Bible in 2010 to get the One Year Chronological Bible and start reading "with" her on January 1st. Since this is something we've both tried before but just can't seem to accomplish, we decided to give it another shot! The One Year Bible is set up with a daily reading plan and each day you read about 3-4 pages...TOTALLY doable. Since this is the Chronological Bible, it is organized by actual date that the scripture was written. So the books or passages aren't in the same order as the "regular" Bible, but instead they are ordered like a timeline, which makes reading it SO much easier....it's just like a story! Melissa started a blog and has committed to writing a blog post with EVERY daily reading!! I am continually blown away by the amount of wisdom and insight she is bringing to my daily reading. It's as if she is writing her own commentary...and it's awesome! I am learning so much. There are over 100 people that are following her blog now and posting comments/questions/responses.
Friday's reading was about Moses parting the Red Sea, "one of the most spectacular of all recorded miracles in the Bible". In Melissa blog post that day, she gave us a link to a website with pictures of artifacts that have been found at the bottom of the Red Sea (chariot wheels, bones from humans and horses) that prove this incredible miracle. It's stuff like this that makes reading the Bible so intriguing! If you have a spare 15-20 minutes each day, I STRONGLY encourage you to jump on this journey with us! It's been so great so far.
Here is the link to Melissa's blog: http://chronologicalbiblein2010.blogspot.com/
and here is the link to that site with pictures from the Red Sea: http://www.bereanpublishers.com/Apologetics/parting_of_the_red_sea.htm
Very cool. Thanks for sharing!
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