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NIV Bible In One Year Hardback
The Hodder NIV Bible In One Year splits up the whole Bible into daily readings, with an Old Testament, New Testament and Psalm or Proverbs excerpt for each day of the year. It is ideal for personal devotions or to read as a community. This Bible features an easy-to-read layout, a timeline of the Bible and an overview of Bible Books and genres.
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First published October 27, 2011
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January 18, 2023
Reading the Bible from cover to cover each year is one of my favorite things. It amazes me how different and new things pop out of the scripture no matter how many times you've read it before! The Word is alive!
August 31, 2023
This isn't the first time I've read the Bible. Reading the Bible is a familiar part of my day-to-day life. In my growing-up life, my Dad used to teach it to us at the dinner table. I attended a Christian school where scripture memorization was a key part. I've been in Sunday school and church services almost every week my whole life. I've studied in small groups and theology courses. Writing a Bible & theology paper was a requirement of my current vocation. And I have done that special kind of study - teaching others the scriptures - which adds a unique weight to one's own reading, which tends to embed it in your heart. Like the friend who taught the gospel to a Sunday school class and convinced herself in the process (though we know it was the Spirit) to receive God's grace.
All of this puts me at an advantage on one hand because, when I pick up the Bible, it is a book I already know and love. This can also be a disadvantage because I can bring extraneous interpretations of passages I've heard over the years and am tempted to apply them in my reading, rather than look at it with fresh eyes and an open heart.
I took up the challenge to read the Bible anew when I saw the Bible In One Year at our local thrift store (best place to buy used books and there is never a shortage of Bibles). This one had an old school hardcover (not leather-bound) copy which is split up into daily readings that consist of an Old Testament reading, a New Testament reading, and passage from either Psalms or Proverbs each day.
I decided to use this Bible as a journal to wreck it with my underlining and highlights and notes in the margins. I'm precious with my current Bible using only reusable tags and sometimes a small scribble in pencil. This time I had nothing to lose and new determination to feel free to interact with what I was reading right on those pages.
One last thing, though I've read the Bible several times, this was the first time I was simply going to read it "cover to cover." Just as there are two ways to get to know a city - look at the map and walk its streets - this would be more of a study of the map of the streets I've walked so many years, trying to enter in with less of my natural inclination to make the most and scour slowly a small portion at a time, but to take it in wholesale with a constant movement forward.
Having said that I did not finish the Bible in a year as prescribed. It took me one year and 8 months. I started January 2022 and finished August 31, 2023. Early on, when I found myself missing a day here and there, I'd work to catch up and read twice as much, but that practice took on task-orientation qualities that I wasn't interested in. I wanted to digest what the word was saying to me, so I started ignoring the actual dates and still aimed for daily.
I never lost interest. It is no secret that there are parts of the Bible that can be extremely dry (for some of us) or confusing - these are the parts we skip or skim. Perhaps it was the way this reading plan was structured. It was apportioned like a well-balanced meal each day - some days prophecy, poetry and song, other days a law book, a biography, and a letter.
Beyond the missing day or two here and there, there was a month here and there where I was studying other things in the scripture, I always looked forward to returning to it again. Again I think my already established love for the word may have been a factor here. Even so, each day presented some new interesting fact, insight or conviction. I truly felt I met God in his word. I have often had a sense of amazement at the living word that was no less true this time - how could such an ancient book contain such deep truths that apply to the world today and to me so personally? Simply amazing.
Here are some key things I noticed in reading the Bible In One Year (and 8 months):
- I became more engaged in the greater God story, not seeing it segmented or piecemealed. The Bible gives context to itself. When you see it as one full, rather than many stories, you interact with it differently. You get a global sense of God's heart for the world, his favour of the poor and hurting, his distress over evil and suffering, and patience, his mercy, and his unfailing love. If you allow, it builds your trust that God knows what he's doing.
- I had many surprising findings, ones I didn't go hunting for. One of my favourite discoveries was a new take on the verse, "We have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us." 2 Corinthians 4:7. I always thought this meant that as believers we have this incredible power of Christ (the treasure) within us even though we are lowly, weak creatures (clay). While that's not wrong, started to think of it differently when I came across the story of Jeremiah (chapter 32). At the time of exile of the Israelites to Babylon, Jeremiah was instructed by God to purchase a deed in his homeland as a promise that he and God's people would return in the future (evidence of that famous verse, "I know the plans I have for you..."). He was instructed by the Lord to put the deeds of purchase "in a clay jar so they will last a long time."
The jar of clay in Jeremiah's time was used as a safe, which could very well mean that Paul who would be well-acquainted with Jeremiah (and perhaps jars of clay were also still used for such a thing in his day), that the gospel is in us for safe-keeping and a guarantee of the future promise of our home with the Lord!
- I was also surprised by the empathy I felt toward the characters in the Bible and toward God. More than once I found myself "rejoicing with those who rejoiced and mourning with those who mourned" in the scriptures. I paid close attention to feeling words, repeated phrases and exclamation marks. What does it mean when the Lord longs for his people to turn to him, for Jesus to weep or to sweat drops of blood from the sheer stress of his impending crucifixion. I've wept over John 17 many times - his prayer in the garden just before his death - that he would be thinking of us, believers to come.
I didn't expect to cry over Job's his defence of his faith in God to his friends in his extreme suffering. Or with Moses when he was banned from entering the promised land. Or with Jesus when, after feeding 5,000 so many turned away when he declared himself the bread of life. Or what about the tears of joy in Isaiah when he prophesied the hope of the coming Christ which comes through his suffering, "He was pierced for OUR transgressions, he was crushed for OUR iniquities..." I could go on.
- As a side project, I have been studying gratefulness for a year now, and so my eyes were attuned to see it where it showed up in scripture, I was stunned at how it permeated the entire Bible - from the instructions regarding thank-offerings, the responsibilities of the priest to lead the people in thanks, to the Psalms soaked in prayers of thanks, to Jesus words, and all through Paul's epistles. This was a beautiful assurance that thanks-giving belongs to those who trust in the Giver. This is an undercurrent and the way his people see the Lord and receive and reciprocate his goodness.
- One final thing. I had to do some contending with God in this reading. You can't skip to the good parts when you're reading the Bible right through. There are many troubling passages, some I wish weren't in there, that speak of God and his judgments. In many ways, while reading the Bible answered many questions, they also brought out new ones. The paradox is that while I got a greater glimpse of God's goodness and compassion and love, so I got a greater sense of his mystery and power and fearsome judgment. That is a place of faith for me. God cannot be comprehended.
I have at times wished for a God who was easier to understand or explain. But he doesn't keep us in the dark either. In my work with young families, I hear stories of abuse and trauma and terrible injustices done to the young ones, innocent children and adolescents victimized by predators. I start to understand that we need a God who will right the wrongs. What a relief to know that God says, "vengeance is mine, I will repay" so that we might begin to trust him with our sorrows and go about the work of healing and restoration.
The verse that meant a lot to me in all this and encapsulated for me this read-through was Isaiah 30:18, which says,
"Yet the Lord longs to be gracious to you; he rises to show you compassion.
For the Lord is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for him."
God's compassion and his justice go hand-in-hand. In the present, he is with us and we can have assurance of all things eventually made right.
I look forward in my thrifting to look for another Bible to wreck by reading it... and the new discoveries I'm sure to find in familiar territory.
All of this puts me at an advantage on one hand because, when I pick up the Bible, it is a book I already know and love. This can also be a disadvantage because I can bring extraneous interpretations of passages I've heard over the years and am tempted to apply them in my reading, rather than look at it with fresh eyes and an open heart.
I took up the challenge to read the Bible anew when I saw the Bible In One Year at our local thrift store (best place to buy used books and there is never a shortage of Bibles). This one had an old school hardcover (not leather-bound) copy which is split up into daily readings that consist of an Old Testament reading, a New Testament reading, and passage from either Psalms or Proverbs each day.
I decided to use this Bible as a journal to wreck it with my underlining and highlights and notes in the margins. I'm precious with my current Bible using only reusable tags and sometimes a small scribble in pencil. This time I had nothing to lose and new determination to feel free to interact with what I was reading right on those pages.
One last thing, though I've read the Bible several times, this was the first time I was simply going to read it "cover to cover." Just as there are two ways to get to know a city - look at the map and walk its streets - this would be more of a study of the map of the streets I've walked so many years, trying to enter in with less of my natural inclination to make the most and scour slowly a small portion at a time, but to take it in wholesale with a constant movement forward.
Having said that I did not finish the Bible in a year as prescribed. It took me one year and 8 months. I started January 2022 and finished August 31, 2023. Early on, when I found myself missing a day here and there, I'd work to catch up and read twice as much, but that practice took on task-orientation qualities that I wasn't interested in. I wanted to digest what the word was saying to me, so I started ignoring the actual dates and still aimed for daily.
I never lost interest. It is no secret that there are parts of the Bible that can be extremely dry (for some of us) or confusing - these are the parts we skip or skim. Perhaps it was the way this reading plan was structured. It was apportioned like a well-balanced meal each day - some days prophecy, poetry and song, other days a law book, a biography, and a letter.
Beyond the missing day or two here and there, there was a month here and there where I was studying other things in the scripture, I always looked forward to returning to it again. Again I think my already established love for the word may have been a factor here. Even so, each day presented some new interesting fact, insight or conviction. I truly felt I met God in his word. I have often had a sense of amazement at the living word that was no less true this time - how could such an ancient book contain such deep truths that apply to the world today and to me so personally? Simply amazing.
Here are some key things I noticed in reading the Bible In One Year (and 8 months):
- I became more engaged in the greater God story, not seeing it segmented or piecemealed. The Bible gives context to itself. When you see it as one full, rather than many stories, you interact with it differently. You get a global sense of God's heart for the world, his favour of the poor and hurting, his distress over evil and suffering, and patience, his mercy, and his unfailing love. If you allow, it builds your trust that God knows what he's doing.
- I had many surprising findings, ones I didn't go hunting for. One of my favourite discoveries was a new take on the verse, "We have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us." 2 Corinthians 4:7. I always thought this meant that as believers we have this incredible power of Christ (the treasure) within us even though we are lowly, weak creatures (clay). While that's not wrong, started to think of it differently when I came across the story of Jeremiah (chapter 32). At the time of exile of the Israelites to Babylon, Jeremiah was instructed by God to purchase a deed in his homeland as a promise that he and God's people would return in the future (evidence of that famous verse, "I know the plans I have for you..."). He was instructed by the Lord to put the deeds of purchase "in a clay jar so they will last a long time."
The jar of clay in Jeremiah's time was used as a safe, which could very well mean that Paul who would be well-acquainted with Jeremiah (and perhaps jars of clay were also still used for such a thing in his day), that the gospel is in us for safe-keeping and a guarantee of the future promise of our home with the Lord!
- I was also surprised by the empathy I felt toward the characters in the Bible and toward God. More than once I found myself "rejoicing with those who rejoiced and mourning with those who mourned" in the scriptures. I paid close attention to feeling words, repeated phrases and exclamation marks. What does it mean when the Lord longs for his people to turn to him, for Jesus to weep or to sweat drops of blood from the sheer stress of his impending crucifixion. I've wept over John 17 many times - his prayer in the garden just before his death - that he would be thinking of us, believers to come.
I didn't expect to cry over Job's his defence of his faith in God to his friends in his extreme suffering. Or with Moses when he was banned from entering the promised land. Or with Jesus when, after feeding 5,000 so many turned away when he declared himself the bread of life. Or what about the tears of joy in Isaiah when he prophesied the hope of the coming Christ which comes through his suffering, "He was pierced for OUR transgressions, he was crushed for OUR iniquities..." I could go on.
- As a side project, I have been studying gratefulness for a year now, and so my eyes were attuned to see it where it showed up in scripture, I was stunned at how it permeated the entire Bible - from the instructions regarding thank-offerings, the responsibilities of the priest to lead the people in thanks, to the Psalms soaked in prayers of thanks, to Jesus words, and all through Paul's epistles. This was a beautiful assurance that thanks-giving belongs to those who trust in the Giver. This is an undercurrent and the way his people see the Lord and receive and reciprocate his goodness.
- One final thing. I had to do some contending with God in this reading. You can't skip to the good parts when you're reading the Bible right through. There are many troubling passages, some I wish weren't in there, that speak of God and his judgments. In many ways, while reading the Bible answered many questions, they also brought out new ones. The paradox is that while I got a greater glimpse of God's goodness and compassion and love, so I got a greater sense of his mystery and power and fearsome judgment. That is a place of faith for me. God cannot be comprehended.
I have at times wished for a God who was easier to understand or explain. But he doesn't keep us in the dark either. In my work with young families, I hear stories of abuse and trauma and terrible injustices done to the young ones, innocent children and adolescents victimized by predators. I start to understand that we need a God who will right the wrongs. What a relief to know that God says, "vengeance is mine, I will repay" so that we might begin to trust him with our sorrows and go about the work of healing and restoration.
The verse that meant a lot to me in all this and encapsulated for me this read-through was Isaiah 30:18, which says,
"Yet the Lord longs to be gracious to you; he rises to show you compassion.
For the Lord is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for him."
God's compassion and his justice go hand-in-hand. In the present, he is with us and we can have assurance of all things eventually made right.
I look forward in my thrifting to look for another Bible to wreck by reading it... and the new discoveries I'm sure to find in familiar territory.
January 2, 2024
Daily is best
I like Bible in a year as it includes 3 sections of the Bible that are linked. Also it means I read the whole Bible in a year. Have been doing this for over 40 years and it is always fresh because God always has something I need to hear.
I like Bible in a year as it includes 3 sections of the Bible that are linked. Also it means I read the whole Bible in a year. Have been doing this for over 40 years and it is always fresh because God always has something I need to hear.
July 28, 2021
Finished once again. Not in 1 year but 1.5 years. Ready to start all over again.
December 31, 2024
The most life altering, heart changing and eye opening book I’ve ever read ❤️
June 5, 2020
I have always wanted to do this, and this year (2019) accomplished reading the Bible through in a year. Some of it was difficult to read, but it was well worth it, and very enlightening.
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