{"id":4200,"date":"2019-12-12T06:14:16","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T06:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpmu.azurewebsites.net\/nlt\/?p=4200"},"modified":"2021-12-08T09:20:59","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T09:20:59","slug":"the-transformational-simplicity-of-the-whole-bible-in-one-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpmu2.azurewebsites.net\/nlt\/2019\/12\/12\/the-transformational-simplicity-of-the-whole-bible-in-one-year\/","title":{"rendered":"The Transformational Simplicity of the Whole Bible in One Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What are some first impressions of the Bible? It\u2019s a big\nbook. It seems overwhelming. It\u2019s filled with people and places that seem\ndifferent than us and our surroundings. If we take a closer look and actually\nget into its pages, we discover it\u2019s extremely personal, and the people and\nplaces actually look a lot more familiar to us than they did at first glance.\nBut what about the overwhelming part? It can be hard to know where to begin or\nhow everything is connected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The One Year Bible<\/a> <\/em>is a great resource to help us engage with the Bible in a manageable way. It takes the entire Bible and breaks it down into daily readings. It sounds so simple, and yet it\u2019s transformational. From seekers to life-long believers, The One Year Bible<\/a> <\/em>has helped people understand God\u2019s story and what it means to each of us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dishy was not a Christian when he started reading the Bible.\nHe questioned its validity and wondered why people would believe it\u2019s true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI have spent much of my life wondering whether any of\nChristianity\u2019s teachings were true or just wishful thinking, and perhaps also a\ngood sales job perpetuated by ancient people with an agenda. But it\u2019s quite\neasy to have an uneducated opinion about something you vaguely know about but haven\u2019t\nactually read! So, I decided to start putting forth an effort to read the\nactual Bible, the whole thing, from beginning to end. I hoped that this\nexercise would put the issue to rest in my life and I would be able to decide\nonce and for all what I thought about Christianity,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To do this he selected <\/a>The One Year Bible<\/a> <\/em>and an NLT Study Bible<\/a><\/em> to help him go to deeper into the context and meaning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI really like the read-it-in-one-year concept with\nscheduled daily passages. It is helpful to refer to a study Bible to\noccasionally get more background and explanation. This One Year Bible<\/em> encourages me to keep up with it. Since the passages\naren\u2019t very long each day, I think Surely\nI can read this for 10 or 15 minutes<\/em>. So, whoever thought of the concept\nhad a really great idea.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is this still a good Bible for people who have been reading\nit most of their lives? Hank thinks so. He is a lifelong Christian and has read\nthe Bible every day for almost 30 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI love the Bible. It\u2019s such a joy to read it, and I just\nwant everyone to have that joy and understand what it can give you,\u201d said Hank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He started with his family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cFor 19 years I read a One Year Bible<\/a><\/em>, and each year I dedicated it to a family member. The notes in the margin were personal, such as \u2018This is my prayer for you.\u2019 I\u2019ve underlined, circled, and highlighted many passages, letting them know what inspires me. It is my legacy to them,\u201d said Hank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through these Bibles Hank has inspired a love for God\u2019s Word\nin others. Sharing his struggles, joys, failures, and triumphs as he moves\ncloser to God has been a comfort and a catalyst for his family members to grow\ndeeper in their understanding of God through his Word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen I give it to them and they read it, they always come back saying, \u2018I didn\u2019t know you were going through that\u2019 or \u2018when you wrote this it helped me to better understand what I was facing.\u2019 The Bible gives me joy whenever I read it, and I get joy by sharing it with others. The more you get into it, the more your joy will grow,\u201d said Hank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What are some first impressions of the Bible? It\u2019s a big book. It seems overwhelming. It\u2019s filled with people and places that seem different than us and our surroundings. If we take a closer look and actually get into its pages, we discover it\u2019s extremely personal, and the people and places actually look a lot […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,15,44,45,47,51,55],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmu2.azurewebsites.net\/nlt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmu2.azurewebsites.net\/nlt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmu2.azurewebsites.net\/nlt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmu2.azurewebsites.net\/nlt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmu2.azurewebsites.net\/nlt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wpmu2.azurewebsites.net\/nlt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5742,"href":"https:\/\/wpmu2.azurewebsites.net\/nlt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4200\/revisions\/5742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmu2.azurewebsites.net\/nlt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmu2.azurewebsites.net\/nlt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmu2.azurewebsites.net\/nlt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}