The Bible is a HUGE book! And not all of it is easy reading. You may be struggling to get through it.
If you are, you’re not alone. It seems like every January
the pastor says, “I encourage you to read the Bible this year,” but
after a few words about why you should read it, you’re on your own. You
and everybody else in the congregation.
Where do you start? How do you go about it? How do you wade through the difficult names? What about the boring parts?
I’m Ellen, and my life mission is to help people read the Bible. I’m passionate about that! I’ll show you how to get started, and then I’ll walk you through the entire Bible.
This website is designed to offer as much help as possible.
There are Bible reading tips, Bible schedules, information about the
Bible, and much more to come. Just browse through the web pages and see
what you can find. More content will be added all the time.
When you are ready to start reading the Bible, you can get a good start by ordering my book on Bible reading. I named it The Bible Reading Revolution because, well, I’d like to start a Bible reading revolution.
The book is subtitled, “An Easy Guide to Bible Reading,” and
it’s pretty easy reading. I wrote it so that anybody from about
7th grade up could get help reading the Bible. Read some comments below.
Also, take a look at the About our Programs post, and then go to the Join the Revolution tab to sign up.
There’s nothing worse than falling behind on your Bible reading plan.For me, at least, it’s a disaster. I feel guilty, defeated, disoriented, and I fret over how to catch up. So here are some tips. First, don’t allow yourself to feel guilty, defeated, or disoriented. ...
We’ll get to the specifics of who wrote what and when below, but first, here’s an observation about one of the most amazing features of the Bible: it was written by more than forty authors over a period of 1600 years, and yet maintains consistency and unity of...
It’s a bit challenging to tell what the Bible is about in a 700-word blog since the Bible itself has 783,137 words in the King James Version. But I’ll try. God’s interaction with mankind Let’s focus on God’s interaction with mankind. The Bible begins with...
The Bible is a very long book, really huge, and if you are a beginning reader, it can be quite intimidating. Here is how it’s organized. The entire Bible is divided into 66 “books,” written by about 40 different authors over a period of 1,600...
Jesus began His public ministry when He was about 30 years old, and, according to the Book of Matthew, one of the first things He did was to go up on a mountain and preach to the people. Because he spoke from a mountaintop, this...
As kids, we learned about how the wise men visited King Herod to ask where they could find the Baby Jesus. He was the first of the Herods in the Bible. Then we learned that he had died. Later we hear about the Herod who...
With God’s help, I will read my Bible, every word, in the proportion
that God gave, over and over again, for the rest of my life.
