This Guy Reads the Bible
This is Brian, he reads the bible- to you. Every day for a for 3 years now, Brian Hardin reads. His project, ‘the daily audio bible‘ has about 4,000,000 people who download podcast every day. Read more about Brian here. Versions are about to be launched in Spanish, Hindi, and a Kids version, not to mention the Daily Proverb. Search any pod-catcher software to get to them.
I have to admit that the first time I heard the podcast Brian’s voice was a little over the top. A little over dramatic it seemed. The background music and nature sounds were a little too “new age.” But the more I listened I could tell his heart was in the right place and the choices he makes in his delivery are spot on. He has tuned his reading so that it doesn’t get tedious, he is present in the Word as he reads and therefore you are pulled in as well. I’ve never been able to follow the stories in the old testament in context until I heard him reading them.
The Daily Audio Bible podcast isn’t just the reading, there is a very large world-wide community that is based around the project with regular on-line meetings.
So, this is one of my resolutions that I invite you to join me on. Use this podcast to figure out how to use an mp3 player and go through the bible with us me this year. I won’t pledge to make every single day but from what I’ve been following in this second half of 2008, I know that I won’t want to put gaps in the progress.
Now’s the time to start getting into it so that you’ll be on board when the year starts.
you know I’m on board with you. (now to get my “idon’t” working again)
Time to start Praying as well . . .
John Newton (1725-1807)—slave trader, convert to Christ, author of “Amazing Grace,” pastor, fellow struggler—on a morning in April sometime between 1752 and 1756 wrote this:
Prayed over a part of the eighth of Romans in a way of paraphrase with some readiness. I greatly fail in the duty of meditation and am forced to use some artifice with myself to do it at all; thus sometimes I turn them into a prayer form, sometimes I suppose myself in imaginary conversation, sometimes that I am called upon to speak to a point.
Without something of this sort I am not able to engage myself to attend with any fixedness of thought, and with it, alas! how seldom, I would remember to pray for grace and direction in this matter that my delight may be in the Law of God to meditate therein day and night. (John Newton, 91)
knock knock . . .
Here’s another option for reading the Bible through . . .
Our One-Year Reading Plan (http://youversion.com/one-year-bible) will take you through the entire Bible in 2009—just read the selections mapped out for you each day and you’ll cover the Old Testament once and the New Testament twice this year. Invite friends to join you in this journey and you’ll have built-in accountability along with enhanced learning.
And don’t forget that you can use your mobile phone to read the Bible no matter where you are. Find the YouVersion.com that works for you while you’re on the go:
* Web-enabled mobile phones
* iPhone
* BlackBerry