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To: Gamecock

My job requires me to read virtually all day long; various reports, statistical trends, policy papers, etc. The last thing I want to do is read when I get home. However I have a reading program in going through the Old and New Testament once a year that I have been on for about seven years. I also have just started as of last month trying to go through Proverbs each month.

Most of my time is spent in researching various topical articles that are of personal interest to me. I just completed The City of God by Augustine among others but rarely do I have time to sit down and read a book from cover to cover. High on my list is Luther's Bondage of the Will but have yet to order it. (I feel like I've read so much of it in researching various topics I might as well read the remaining five pages.)


105 posted on 01/12/2006 6:11:44 AM PST by HarleyD ("No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him..." John 6:44)
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To: HarleyD

You know, it takes the average reader about 70 hours to read the Bible through completely. I've often though that those who settle for reading through the Bible through in a year are missing out on a lot by reading only about 10 minutes a day, but I'm not doing much better now anyway.

I designed a reading plan for the Bible that emphasized certains parts of the Bible more than others, especially Psalms and the NT. I haven't used it for a while, but reading only 6 chapters a day and 12 one day a week (usually Sundays) I could read the Gospels at least 4 times a year, the Gospels almost 3 times a year, and everything else at least once a year.


173 posted on 01/12/2006 5:54:20 PM PST by Mr. Mulliner
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