To help you in your personal growth or within a family or friends, here are some resources that may be useful:
Bible Reading Guides
There are many wonderful plans to guide one’s regular reading of the Bible. And great idea is to pick a plan to do with a friend or relative.
- Navigators Plan: read the whole Bible, with a few days to catch up or do other things each month
- M’Cheyne Bible Reading Plan: http://www.edginet.org/mcheyne/printables.html
- Ligonier Ministry: https://www.ligonier.org/posts/bible-reading-plans includes a variety of downloadable and printable plans
- Bible Gateway: https://www.biblegateway.com/reading-plans/ includes the ability to sign up for daily emails for each day’s reading
- Bible Reading Plan Generator at https://biblereadingplangenerator.com/ where you can create your own plan!
- Read the New Testament with 1 chapter a day, Monday through Friday (with weekends as a time for catchup or other readings)
- 2026 Bible Reading Guide with three different plans: 1) New Testament, Psalms & Proverbs, 2) Old & New Testament, 3) Old Testament once and New Testament, Psalms & Proverbs each twice. [This pdf is designed for printing landscape back-to-back.]
- Read through the whole Bible over 3 years.
- Bible Reading Checklist or Bible Reading Chart, to read through the Bible at any rate.
Creative ways to engage the Bible
- The Gospel of Mark, enacted by Mac MacLean
- Listening to a dramatized reading of the Bible: go to https://www.biblegateway.com/, select a passage, then click on the speaker icon, then click on the list of audio options in the middle, and choose NIV by Dramatized
Bible Memory
- Bible memory app (by Pastor John)
- Topical Memory System: verse to memorize by the Navigators
Prayer Guides
Weekly template: http://tiny.cc/CMCWeeklyPrayerTemplate: Open this template (in Microsoft Word) and create your weekly schedule for prayer.