Dave Miller's 2025 Bible Reading Challenge

   Reading the Bible in 2025 Each day this year, we will read a selection from the Old Testament, the New Testament, a portion of the Psalms, and part of Proverbs. By the end of the year, you will have read the entire Bible. We read this way to give you a bit of variety.  NOTE: If you get behind, do not give up. Read today's readings and try to catch up when you have a chance. The goal is not to "accomplish a task" but to meet God in his word. Read the word. Also, if you are short on time, READ GOD'S WORD and skip my devotional! Bible Readings:   Job 11-12, Acts 23:12–35, Psalm 89:21–27, Proverbs 19:5–6      Scriptures linked to Bible Gateway in ESV version  Daily Devotional:   Mad at God? Have you ever been mad at God? Of course, you were raised in the church, and you know better than to call it that, right? You are discouraged, depressed, downhearted, disappointed - I am running out of words that start with d! Life hasn't gone the way you w...

   Reading the Bible in 2025 Each day this year, we will read a selection from the Old Testament, the New Testament, a portion of the Psalms, and part of Proverbs. By the end of the year, you will have read the entire Bible. We read this way to give you a bit of variety.  NOTE: If you get behind, do not give up. Read today's readings and try to catch up when you have a chance. The goal is not to "accomplish a task" but to meet God in his word. Read the word. Also, if you are short on time, READ GOD'S WORD and skip my devotional! Bible Readings:   Job 9-10, Acts 22:22–23:11, Psalm 89:14–20, Proverbs 19:3–4      Scriptures linked to Bible Gateway in ESV version  Daily Devotional:   A Theology of Despair Job 9 is the beginning of a turn for Job in his verbal sparring with his three friends, Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar. At first, he had been too overwhelmed with grief to say anything, and for seven days they sat in silence with him. Then, Job spo...

    Reading the Bible in 2025 Each day this year, we will read a selection from the Old Testament, the New Testament, a portion of the Psalms, and part of Proverbs. By the end of the year, you will have read the entire Bible. We read this way to give you a bit of variety.  NOTE: If you get behind, do not give up. Read today's readings and try to catch up when you have a chance. The goal is not to "accomplish a task" but to meet God in his word. Read the word. Also, if you are short on time, READ GOD'S WORD and skip my devotional! Bible Readings:   Job 7-8, Acts 21:37–22:21, Psalm 89:7–13, Proverbs 19:1-2      Scriptures linked to Bible Gateway in ESV version  Daily Devotional:   What did Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar do that was so wrong? At the end of the book of Job, after God has broken in and ministered to Job, after he has restored Job and strengthened his soul, he turned his attention to the friends. They came under his withering judgment...

   Reading the Bible in 2025 Each day this year, we will read a selection from the Old Testament, the New Testament, a portion of the Psalms, and part of Proverbs. By the end of the year, you will have read the entire Bible. We read this way to give you a bit of variety.  NOTE: If you get behind, do not give up. Read today's readings and try to catch up when you have a chance. The goal is not to "accomplish a task" but to meet God in his word. Read the word. Also, if you are short on time, READ GOD'S WORD and skip my devotional! Bible Readings:   Job 5-6, Acts 21:17–36, Psalm 89:1–6, Proverbs 18:21–24      Scriptures linked to Bible Gateway in ESV version  Daily Devotional:   When You Do Right and It All Goes Wrong Paul's ministry changed the church - entirely, in every way. It began when God sent Peter to Cornelius, but things really got going when God tabbed Barnabas and Saul and sent them off on their missionary quest. A funny thing happen...

   Reading the Bible in 2025 Each day this year, we will read a selection from the Old Testament, the New Testament, a portion of the Psalms, and part of Proverbs. By the end of the year, you will have read the entire Bible. We read this way to give you a bit of variety.  NOTE: If you get behind, do not give up. Read today's readings and try to catch up when you have a chance. The goal is not to "accomplish a task" but to meet God in his word. Read the word. Also, if you are short on time, READ GOD'S WORD and skip my devotional! Bible Readings:   Job 3-4, Acts 21:1–16, Psalm 88:11–18, Proverbs 18:19–20      Scriptures linked to Bible Gateway in ESV version  Daily Devotional:   What to Say? I stared at him like he was an alien, with horror and embarrassment. We were looking at old pics of our high school days, and I saw one with someone I didn't recognize. "Who is that?" I asked. "That's my brother," he responded. His brother, during his col...

   Reading the Bible in 2025 Each day this year, we will read a selection from the Old Testament, the New Testament, a portion of the Psalms, and part of Proverbs. By the end of the year, you will have read the entire Bible. We read this way to give you a bit of variety.  NOTE: If you get behind, do not give up. Read today's readings and try to catch up when you have a chance. The goal is not to "accomplish a task" but to meet God in his word. Read the word. Also, if you are short on time, READ GOD'S WORD and skip my devotional! Bible Readings:   Job 1-2, Acts 20, Psalm 88:4–10, Proverbs 18:16–18      Scriptures linked to Bible Gateway in ESV version  Daily Devotional:   Finish Well I have competed in sports all of my life, but there is nothing like the thrill of crossing the finish line of a marathon. I've finished dead last in a marathon. Absolutely true. Both words. I was last, and I was nearly dead. I did one a few years back in the deser...

   Reading the Bible in 2025 Each day this year, we will read a selection from the Old Testament, the New Testament, a portion of the Psalms, and part of Proverbs. By the end of the year, you will have read the entire Bible. We read this way to give you a bit of variety.  NOTE: If you get behind, do not give up. Read today's readings and try to catch up when you have a chance. The goal is not to "accomplish a task" but to meet God in his word. Read the word. Also, if you are short on time, READ GOD'S WORD and skip my devotional! Bible Readings:   Esther 9-10, Acts 19:21–41, Psalm 88:1–3, Proverbs 18:14–15      Scriptures linked to Bible Gateway in ESV version  Daily Devotional:   In the Darkness The secret we pastors talk about with one another but seldom share with our people is how often we struggle with discouragement, despair, and even depression - being trapped in the "dark night of the soul." Marty Duren uses Winston Churchill's descrip...

   Reading the Bible in 2025 Each day this year, we will read a selection from the Old Testament, the New Testament, a portion of the Psalms, and part of Proverbs. By the end of the year, you will have read the entire Bible. We read this way to give you a bit of variety.  NOTE: If you get behind, do not give up. Read today's readings and try to catch up when you have a chance. The goal is not to "accomplish a task" but to meet God in his word. Read the word. Also, if you are short on time, READ GOD'S WORD and skip my devotional! Bible Readings:   Esther 7-8, Acts 19:1–20, Psalm 87, Proverbs 18:11–13      Scriptures linked to Bible Gateway in ESV version  Daily Devotional:   Our Mighty God Having recovered from his humiliation when he was forced to parade Mordecai around the city in honor, Haman's spirits were lifted by his invitation to again dine with the king and Queen Esther. By himself. How many people get invited to an intimate dinner pa...

   Reading the Bible in 2025 Each day this year, we will read a selection from the Old Testament, the New Testament, a portion of the Psalms, and part of Proverbs. By the end of the year, you will have read the entire Bible. We read this way to give you a bit of variety.  NOTE: If you get behind, do not give up. Read today's readings and try to catch up when you have a chance. The goal is not to "accomplish a task" but to meet God in his word. Read the word. Also, if you are short on time, READ GOD'S WORD and skip my devotional! Bible Readings:   Esther 5-6, Acts 18:18–28, Psalm 86:9–17, Proverbs 18:9–10      Scriptures linked to Bible Gateway in ESV version  Daily Devotional:   Esther is a strange book. It recounts some questionable behavior from Esther and Mordecai; actions hard to square with the Law of God. Still, the oddest thing is that from the first verse to the last, God's name is not mentioned a single time. How strange that a ...

   Reading the Bible in 2025 Each day this year, we will read a selection from the Old Testament, the New Testament, a portion of the Psalms, and part of Proverbs. By the end of the year, you will have read the entire Bible. We read this way to give you a bit of variety.  NOTE: If you get behind, do not give up. Read today's readings and try to catch up when you have a chance. The goal is not to "accomplish a task" but to meet God in his word. Read the word. Also, if you are short on time, READ GOD'S WORD and skip my devotional! Bible Readings:   Esther 3-4, Acts 18:1–17, Psalm 86:1–8, Proverbs 18:6–8      Scriptures linked to Bible Gateway in ESV version  Daily Devotional:  In a Dark Hour The Psalms have such variety. They ascend the heights of God's glory and plumb the depths of human wickedness. There is hardly an emotion, a life issue, or an aspect of a man's relationship with God that is not explored at some point. The most common of all...

   Reading the Bible in 2025 Each day this year, we will read a selection from the Old Testament, the New Testament, a portion of the Psalms, and part of Proverbs. By the end of the year, you will have read the entire Bible. We read this way to give you a bit of variety.  NOTE: If you get behind, do not give up. Read today's readings and try to catch up when you have a chance. The goal is not to "accomplish a task" but to meet God in his word. Read the word. Also, if you are short on time, READ GOD'S WORD and skip my devotional! Bible Readings:     Esther 1-2, Acts 17, Psalm 85:9–13, Proverbs 18:4–51       Scriptures linked to Bible Gateway in ESV version  Daily Devotional:   Good News that Offends Paul was a brilliant man; in fact, there are some who believe he would have been a known quantity in history even had he not met Jesus on the road to Damascus. When he wandered into Athens and began to debate with the Epicureans and Stoic...