Archive for May, 2007

First it was lonelygirl15. More recently it was Michael Eisner. Now a Bible publisher is launching a weekly series on YouTube:

On May 14 B&H Publishing Group’s Holman Bibles division will launch HolmanTV.com, a video blog designed to expose high school and college students to the Holman Student Bible, which releases in July. A series of 3–5 minute weekly video episodes will be posted on MySpace, YouTube and FaceBook, leading viewers to HolmanTV.com to follow the lives of “Holman” and “Gigi,” 20-somethings who are cubicle-bound in Nashville but dreaming of making it big in the music business….

[B&H marketing manager Tim] Jordan said each episode will have a 10-15 second introduction (“like a short TV show”) and will end with a 17-second commercial for the Holman Student Bible. But, Jordan said, “there will be no product shots, no one holding up a Bible. If we make it too heavily commercial they will smell that out and be turned off.”

Technocrat7 at Technocracy unleashed writes about starting a one-year Bible reading plan in the middle of the year:

We’ve already read today’s passages. So far, so good. It’s not the first time that I’ve started studying Joshua in the middle of the book (a few years ago, I started attending a church group while a study of Joshua was underway). Joshua might not be the easier book to start reading in the middle of, but this way we’ll know right away if we start to fall behind.

Noël Piper in 2003 shared how she read the Bible in a year:

I didn’t begin in January. I simply let the Spirit push me into it “any time now.” I began in July.

I started in Hosea and read to the end of the Old Testament. I knew what had become of my efforts before when I had started quite literally, “in the beginning.” I also knew there were chunks of the minor prophets I had never laid eyes on. There’s something intriguing about unknown territory.

I didn’t try to read books in sequence. After Leviticus, I was ready for some adventure in Acts. I completed one book before I began another, except for the Psalms and Proverbs which I read in scattered chunks whenever I wanted to.

Any day is a good day to start reading your Bible.

Crossway is currently selling several Bibles at 50% off, including two One Year® Bibles. These Bibles are “quality seconds,” or slightly used or damaged items that they can no longer sell as new.