Studying The Word

I make a commitment to myself, the beginning of 2008, that I will read the entire Bible in a year. I print out a calendar, that gives the daily readings, in order to accomplish this mission. I have never read straight through before. I read a book, chapter, or verse here and there but have never disciplined myself to read it cover to cover. I am currently ahead of schedule.

I am enjoying it tremendously!!! I realize now how interesting the OT is. There is definitely a ton I do not understand and it is comforting when I hear people, that I hold in high esteem as Bible scholars, readers, leaders, teachers, say each time they read, they find something new or have a different understanding of this verse or that verse.

Our congregation is doing a forty day study of the Psalms. The same time we start this study, my DH decides he wants to read Purpose Driven Life (PDL), which is also a forty day study. We decide to do them together. When he is out of town, we each do our personal Psalms study and then discuss it over the phone and then he reads PDL to me and we discuss that. On the days he is home, we usually read the Psalms together, each fill out our workbooks, discuss our feelings and opinions, then read and discuss PDL. We each have our lessons from our Bible Study groups that we do, also.

I last night realize we are nearing the end of May. This means we will be completing the Psalms and PDL. We are trying to decide what study we will do next. Any suggestions???