Dave Miller's 2025 Bible Reading Challenge

  Reading the Bible Chronologically in 2026 This year, we will read the Bible chronologically, as it happened, instead of simply reading from Genesis to Revelation.  The Old Testament is approximately 3/4 of the Bible, but we will give more emphasis to the New Testament, spending half the year in the Old Testament and half in the New.  Bible Readings :   2 Chronicles 28, 2 Kings 16-17 In Bible Gateway, we will link to the NIV this year, though you can choose any version you prefer.  Background:     Ahaz was one of the worst of Judah's kings, but his son Hezekiah became a good kind - the best of the best, until the end of his reign. While evil King Ahaz was ruling, the last kings of Israel were ruling there and God was bringing the final judgments on that wicked land. Hezekiah, in his youth, witnessed the judgment God brought on Israel for its wickedness.  Daily Devotional:   Why Did Israel Fall? Why did Israel fall? There could have been so m...

  Reading the Bible Chronologically in 2026 This year, we will read the Bible chronologically, as it happened, instead of simply reading from Genesis to Revelation.  The Old Testament is approximately 3/4 of the Bible, but we will give more emphasis to the New Testament, spending half the year in the Old Testament and half in the New.  Bible Readings :   Micah 1-7 In Bible Gateway, we will link to the NIV this year, though you can choose any version you prefer.  Background:     Micah alternates between oracles of judgment and oracles of restoration. The Hebrew form of Micah means, "Who is like Yahweh?" God pronounces judgment against his people when they sin, but always with a view toward restoration. The most famous verse in Micah is likely Micah 5:2, where Bethlehem is identified as the home of the Messiah, the ruler of Israel. Daily Devotional:   Amazing Prophecies Look at the prophecies of Micah 5:2-4. They are stunning in the clarity and...

  Reading the Bible Chronologically in 2026 This year, we will read the Bible chronologically, as it happened, instead of simply reading from Genesis to Revelation.  The Old Testament is approximately 3/4 of the Bible, but we will give more emphasis to the New Testament, spending half the year in the Old Testament and half in the New.  Bible Readings :   2 Chronicles 27, Isaiah 9-12 In Bible Gateway, we will link to the NIV this year, though you can choose any version you prefer.  Background:     Isaiah is a book of mountaintops. Every one of the prophets is a message from God, but Isaiah's is the Himalayan range, with peaks of glory in so many places. In chapter nine, we encounter the famous Christmas prophecy of the Messiah's rule - the government will be on his shoulders (actually, more millennial than Bethlehem), and in chapter 11, we read of the Davidic King on whom the Spirit of the Lord rests and who causes the curse of  God on creation to ...

  Reading the Bible Chronologically in 2026 This year, we will read the Bible chronologically, as it happened, instead of simply reading from Genesis to Revelation.  The Old Testament is approximately 3/4 of the Bible, but we will give more emphasis to the New Testament, spending half the year in the Old Testament and half in the New.  Bible Readings :   Amos 6-9 In Bible Gateway, we will link to the NIV this year, though you can choose any version you prefer.  Background:     Isaiah was royalty, but Amos was a fig farmer and sheepherder - a nobody that God chose to do his work. He came from the southern kingdom of Judah, but his prophecies were directed against the northern tribes of Israel. Amos is likely the first of the written prophets. Daily Devotional:   God's Plumb Line Amos 7 is a series of three visions that God gives to the prophet. The first, in verses 1-3, is a vision of a plague of locusts descending on Israel and picking the land cl...

  Reading the Bible Chronologically in 2026 This year, we will read the Bible chronologically, as it happened, instead of simply reading from Genesis to Revelation.  The Old Testament is approximately 3/4 of the Bible, but we will give more emphasis to the New Testament, spending half the year in the Old Testament and half in the New.  Bible Readings :   Amos 1-5 In Bible Gateway, we will link to the NIV this year, though you can choose any version you prefer.  Background:     As we move through the Major Prophets, we will also intersperse the 12 minor prophets among them. Amos was an early prophet who spoke to the northern 10 tribes, Israel. Daily Devotional:   Other People's Sins Amos 1 and 2 is a brilliant sermon, one that illustrates a point about sermons that appeal to the flesh as opposed to those that speak to the spirit. Amos begins the sermon by addressing the sins of Israel's pagan neighbors, their enemies. I can only imagine the joy of ...

  Reading the Bible Chronologically in 2026 This year, we will read the Bible chronologically, as it happened, instead of simply reading from Genesis to Revelation.  The Old Testament is approximately 3/4 of the Bible, but we will give more emphasis to the New Testament, spending half the year in the Old Testament and half in the New.  Bible Readings :   Isaiah 5-8 In Bible Gateway, we will link to the NIV this year, though you can choose any version you prefer.  Background:     Isaiah has some of the most powerful prophecies of the coming of Christ, beginning with Isaiah 7:14, the "Immanuel" prophecy.  Daily Devotional:   God with Us The prophecy of Isaiah 7:14 is one of the best-known of the Christmas story. A virgin will conceive and bear a son, and that son will be "Immanuel," which means "God with us." We are most familiar with this passage from its New Testament setting when it is clearly applied to Christ, the virgin-born Son of G...