Check out this reading plan. It takes into account the fact that most, if not all, of us get behind during the year and then get disappointed. I have already started using this plan and will for sure use the extra five days a month to play catch up. I pray that I won’t but I am being honest with myself.
Discipleship Reading Plan
John Piper really likes this plan.
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Justin Taylor also lists other great reading plans for the Bible.
See list
What reading plans do you like?
John Piper has some great direction for fasting in 2009.
Why Fast?
1. For Jesus to come back
Matthew 9:14-15
2. For help in a new venture in ministry
Matthew 4:1-2; Acts 13:3
3. To avert some danger or threat
Ezra 8:21; 2 Samuel 12:16
4. To express sorrow and loss
2 Samuel 1:12; 1 Chronicles 10:12
5. To express repentance and grief for sin
Joel 2:12-13
6. Not for the praise of men
Matthew 6:16-18
2008 is over. I have so many books I want to read in 2009. I put together this list and realized a couple of things.
1) There are several books that I started 2008 that I need to finish FIRST before moving on to my ’09 list.
2) I need to broaden my reading. Christian books are beneficial but there are many good biographies, novels, and non-fiction out there.
3) Accountability is the key. The books that I have read WITH SOMEONE are the ones that tend to get COMPLETED faster.
4) I want to start writing reviews of the books I read. I think this will help me collect my thoughts and be more purposeful in engaging the book. Much like the benefit of journaling.
So I ask you, what books did you read in 2008?
What books do you look forward to reading in ’09?
Books I have read in 2008
Respectable Sins by Jerry Bridges
Worldliness by CJ Mahaney and others
Field of the Fatherless by Tom Davis
Disciplines for Life by CJ Mahaney and others
The Discipline of Grace by Jerry Bridges
Don’t Waste Your Life by John Piper
Money, Possessions, and Eternity by Randy Alcorn
Books I started in 2008, and have not yet finished
Heaven by Randy Alcorn
Doing Things Right in Matters of the Heart by John Ensor
Deadline by Randy Alcorn
Discipline of Spiritual Discernment by Tim Challies
Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God by Jerry Bridges
Do Hard Things by Alex and Brett Harris
Love that Lasts by Gary and Betsy Ritucci
Worship Matters by Bob Kauflin
Books I will read in 2009
John Adams by David McCullough
Crazy Love by Francis Chan
The Road of Lost Innocence by Somaly Mam
The Reason for God by Tim Keller
