I’ve been doing the “read the whole Bible in a year” thing for a number of years now (with varying levels of success in different years) and overall I’ve found it to be a great discipline to get into.

I’ll be doing it again this year, and while I originally had planned on doing it with my physical Bible as I had in years past, this afternoon I decided to change it up a bit for 2009.

A fellow graduate of the Davis College class of ’05, Art Boulet, has set up a new blog to read the ESV Bible in 2009. He’ll be posting the appropriate sections each day, which one can subscribe to with an RSS reader like Apple Mail or Google Reader.

He writes the following on his personal blog:

I will be using the text of the ESV, as that is being widely read in evangelical circles, and will be posting the text without chapter and verse numbers. This will hopefully allow the reader to focus on the text and the story instead of worrying about verse numbers, chapter breaks, etc. The amount of reading averages about 3 chapters a day. The ordering will follow the order of the biblical books.

One of Art’s goals is to allow the Biblical narrative to stand on its own. I think this approach to distributing scripture will certainly help to highlight the overarching redemptive themes of God’s word, and not simply focus on using the Bible as a tool for proof-texting particular doctrinal positions.

I’m truly looking forward to reading the Bible this way! You can join us by visiting Read the Entire Bible in a Year!