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Read Through the Bible in Two Years – 2026 update!

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Today I’m starting the second year of the two-year Bible plan. If you’d like to begin with Day 1 of Year 1, you should begin with John 1.

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For several years, I did a “Read Through the Bible in One Year” plan. I think it’s important to read the entire Bible, every word of it, and I’m glad that I’ve done that, but, I’ve found that the whole Bible in one year is a lot to absorb. It doesn’t give me much time to reflect and meditate on what I’ve read, so I decided I wanted to do a “Read Through the Bible in Two Years” plan. Simple enough, right? Wrong.

So, I made my own and I’d love to have you join me.

The plan is set up to read through each book of the Bible from beginning to end, alternating between Old Testament and New Testament books. I tried to keep the Old Testament books in chronological order. For example, Job is read after Genesis and before Exodus. I also intentionally placed New Testament books with related Old Testament books to help us see the connections in the text. For example, Hebrews is read between Leviticus and Numbers. I love to read one chapter of Luke every day from December 1-24, so each year ends with reading the book of Luke.

You’ll also notice that the Bible reading plan is set up week by week rather than day by day. One week you will devote every day to the four chapters of Philippians. In this weekly format, you could read the whole book on the first day of the week, then reread little parts the other six days … or you could read half of each chapter every day. You decide. Another week you’re assigned to read fourteen chapters of Leviticus – you might read several chapters one day and just one chapter another. Having a week by week format allows you this flexibility, but still keeps you on target.

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Loving the Unlovely: Brussel Sprouts, Ice Cream, Jesus, and Me. Hosea 3-4. 2026

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Read through the Bible in 2 Years: Psalm 121, Hosea 3-4

If I asked a class of third grade students, “Raise your hand if you love ice cream.” I bet every hand would shoot up. 🙋🏿‍♀️🙋🏻🙋🏽‍♂️🙋🏼‍♀️🙋🙋🏾‍♂️

But if I then said, “Raise your hand if you love Brussel sprouts,” I’m quite sure I’d get a very different response. Even if I followed it up with words like, “They are really good for you! They’re high in fiber, vitamins, and antioxidants.” Still, it’s a no. 🙅🏽‍♂️🙅🏼‍♀️🙅🏻🙅🏿‍♂️🙅🏻‍♀️🙅

It is only logical to love ice cream. It’s sweet and creamy and delicious.🍦😋 But Brussel sprouts … They are more of an acquired taste, suited for a more refined palate. 🥬 😝

I’m afraid I think of myself as ice cream, naturally easy to love, rather than Brussel sprouts, good for you but a little bitter, stinky, and hard to digest.

When we read the book of Hosea, I’m afraid we tend to picture ourselves as the faithful prophet, when in reality we’re much more like the wandering prostitute. Please, sisters, don’t forget that we are Gomer, that woman who abandons her true love to pursue idols, and God is Hosea, the faithful One who again and again chases after His bride, pulling her out of the pig slop. 🥴🐖

In this is love, not that we have loved God but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

1 John 4:10 ESV

Don’t forget 1 Corinthians 13.

Love covers a multitude of sins.

Love is not irritable or resentful or rude.

Love keeps no record of wrongs.

Love forgives.

Love never ends.

Love is steadfast and patient and faithful.

Praise God that He loved us while we were yet sinners, and now He calls us to go and do likewise.

Heavenly Father, Thank You for Your steadfast, patient, faithful love toward me. Thank You for pursuing me, though I didn’t deserve it, though I don’t deserve it still. I’m not worthy, but You are. You deserve better. You deserve chocolate, chocolate chip ice cream with whipped cream and sprinkles and a cherry on top. And yet You have demonstrated Your love by sending Your own Son to be the propitiation, the atoning sacrifice, the substitutionary offering, for my sin. Praise Your Name forevermore. Amen.

O Love That Will Not Let Me Go

Marriage is Exclusive, and So Is Our Relationship with God: Hosea 1-2

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Read through the Bible in 2 Years: Psalm 120, Hosea 1-2

When the LORD first spoke through Hosea, the LORD said to Hosea, “Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom and have children of whoredom, for the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the LORD.”

Hosea 1:2 ESV

How had the Israelites forsaken the Lord? Had they stopped making sacrifices and offerings? Had they stopped observing the feasts and Sabbaths?

No, they had forsaken Him by making Him one god on a buffet of gods. They had forsaken Him by worshipping both Him and Baal. They had forsaken Him by offering themselves to other lovers in addition to the Lord God.

Friends, we can have a dozen coworkers, a dozen children, and a dozen friends, but we can only have ONE husband and he can only have ONE bride.

A good husband refuses to share
his bride with other men,
and our good God refuses to share
His bride with other gods.

It is not enough for us to make God the biggest god in our life, or the most valuable idol that we have. He can’t be our “favorite” husband. He wants to be our ONLY husband. He wants ALL of our heart, soul, mind, and strength. He wants to be our everything. He is either Lord of all or He’s not Lord at all.

God despises adultery of all forms, especially adultery toward Him. God wants our whole heart. He is a jealous God. He will not share His glory with another.

  • Exodus 34:14 ESV — (for you shall worship no other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God),
  • Deuteronomy 4:24 ESV — For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
  • Isaiah 42:8 ESV — I am the LORD; that is my name; my glory I give to no other, nor my praise to carved idols.

Heavenly Father, You are a good husband who loves His bride and refuses to share her with another. I pray that we would be a loving bride, rejecting all other things who vie for our attention. I pray that You would be the apple of our eye, the center of our attention, the singular focus of our lives. May we be found pure and faithful as You, O Lord, are pure and faithful to us. In the Name of Jesus Christ, our redeemer and bridegroom, Amen.

Find us Faithful – Steve Green

Your Praise will EVER be on my Lips. Micah 7. 2026.

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Read through the Bible in 2 Years: Psalm 119:161-176, Micah 7

My lips will pour forth praise, for you teach me your statutes. My tongue will sing of your word, for all your commandments are right.

Psalm 119:171-172 ESV

Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in steadfast love. He will again have compassion on us; he will tread our iniquities underfoot. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.

Micah 7:18-19 ESV

Your Praise will EVER be on my lips – FormerAtheist58
Ever Be – Aaron Shust

Love Justice. Do Kindness. Walk Humbly with God. Micah 6. 2026.

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Read through the Bible in 2 Years: Psalm 119:121-160, Micah 6

My eyes shed streams of tears, because people do not keep your law.

Psalm 119:136 ESV

He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

Micah 6:8 ESV

Love Justice. Do Kindness. Walk Humbly with God – FormerAtheist58
God I’m just Grateful – Stephen McWhirter
Micah 6:8 – Slugs and Bugs

God’s Word is a Good Light. Micah 5. 2026.

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Read through the Bible in 2 Years: Psalm 119:81-120, Micah 5

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

Psalm 119:105 ESV

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God’s Word is a Good Light – FormerAtheist58
Your Words are Wonderful – Sovereign Grace Music
Your Word – Slugs and Bugs

God is GOOD in my Affliction. Micah 4. 2026.

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Read through the Bible in 2 Years: Psalm 119:41-80, Micah 4

Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep your word. You are good and do good; teach me your statutes…. It is good for me that I was afflicted, that I might learn your statutes.

Psalm 119:67-69, 71 ESV

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God is GOOD in my Affliction – FormerAtheist58
Jesus is Alive – Forrest Frank featuring Julia Poe

Treasuring God’s Word in Your Heart. Micah 3. 2026.

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Read through the Bible in 2 Years: Psalm 119:1-40, Micah 3

Thus says the LORD concerning the prophets who lead my people astray, who cry “Peace” when they have something to eat, but declare war against him who puts nothing into their mouths…. Its heads give judgment for a bribe; its priests teach for a price; its prophets practice divination for money; yet they lean on the LORD and say, “Is not the LORD in the midst of us? No disaster shall come upon us.”

Micah 3:5,11 ESV

I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

Psalm 119:11 ESV

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#formeratheist58
#readthebiblein2years
#ihavehiddenyourwordinmyheart
#bewareoffalseprophets

Treasuring God’s Word in Your Heart – FormerAtheist58
I Have Hidden Your Word – Steve Green

BEWARE! False Prophets Preach False Comforts. Micah 2. 2026.

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Read through the Bible in 2 Years: Psalm 118, Micah 2

“Do not preach” – thus they preach – “one should not preach of such things; disgrace will not overtake us.” … If a man should go about and utter wind and lies, saying, “I will preach to you of wine and strong drink,” he would be the preacher for this people!

Micah 2:6, 11 ESV

The days of Micah are remarkably like modern days. People don’t want to hear the truth. They want to hear preachers who tickle their ears, promising peace and prosperity. May we not listen to false prophets nor be false prophets. May we remember Micah who was faithful to obediently speak the truth in love, even though it fell on deaf ears for decades. 🙏

False Prophets Preach False Comforts – FormerAtheist58
The God who Fights for Us – Sovereign Grace Music

To Whom Much is Given Much is Required. Micah 1. 2026.

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Read through the Bible in 2 Years: Psalm 117, Micah 1

All this is for the transgression of Jacob and for the sins of the house of Israel.

Micah 1:5a ESV

Let us as Christians never think, “I’m not *that* bad. I’m not like *those* people.”

Heavenly Father, please keep us humble. Keep us on our knees. Forgive us.

To Whom Much is Given Much is Required – FormerAtheist58
Guide Me, O My Great Redeemer – Sovereign Grace Music

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Would I Rather? Amos 8-9. 2026.

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Read through the Bible in 2 Years: Psalm 116, Amos 8-9.

“Behold, the days are coming,”
declares the Lord GOD,
“when I will send a famine on the land,
not a famine of bread,
nor a thirst for water,
but of hearing the words of the LORD.”

Amos 8:11 ESV

Would I rather worship or wander through Wally World?

Would I rather scroll through the truth of the Word or the foolishness of Facebook?

Would I rather skip my daily dose of carbs or the daily bread of the Lord’s presence?

Would I rather sit in a pew or sit on a couch?

Would I rather be in the front row of a church or the front row of a concert?

Would I rather listen to the correction of a wise counselor or the consolation of a foolish friend?

Would I rather miss a dinner date with my BFF or a breakfast date with my Heavenly Father?

Would I rather miss my morning cup of java or my morning cup of living water?

Would I rather have an empty belly or an empty mind?

“Sabbath days and sabbath work are a burden to carnal hearts, that are always afraid of doing too much for God and eternity.

Can we spend our time better than in communication with God?

And how much time do we spend pleasantly with the world? Will not the sabbath be gone before we have done the work of it and reaped the gains of it? Why then should we be in such haste to part with it?

They were fond of market-days: they longed to be selling corn and setting forth wheat. When they were employed in religious services they were thinking of their marketings …

Those are strangers to God, and enemies to themselves, that love market days better than sabbath days, that would rather be selling corn than worshipping God.”

Matthew Henry, Commentary on Amos 8

Heavenly Father, Align our hearts with Yours. Make us love what You love. Break our hearts for what breaks Yours. Give us a holy hunger. Make us hunger for what is healthy and right, what is pure and true. Make us sick over what makes You sick. Give us discernment to recognize what is truly lovely and what is a joy stealer. Help us spot the counterfeits, the deceptions, those things that masquerade as beautiful, and give us hearts that hunger and thirst for righteousness for Your Name’s sake. In the Name of Jesus Christ, the Righteous One, the One who meets our every need, the well that never runs dry, the unending source of living water and the eternal bread of Your living presence, we pray. Amen.

I’m Just a Nobody – The Williams Brothers