The Bible in Time - Overview

Happy New Year!  Blessed New Year!

We, at Grace Episcopal Church, 341 Washington Ave, Traverse City, Michigan, USA continue our effort to give people worldwide the gift of the Bible by a discipline of daily reading and prayer.  Daily prayers will be based on the wonderful and enduring Book of Common Prayer, its Morning Daily Office, with prayers and selection each day from the Daily Office Calendar. (Imagine a denomination asking its adherents to pray and read Scriptures daily.)  These reflections will be posted on two blogs and discussed weekly at a reflection session on Sunday mornings at Grace.

The purpose of this venture is to give disciples the basic knowledge of Scripture, create a discipline of daily prayer and reading, and with the leading of the Holy Spirit move out into the congregation, parish, and world in Worship, Welcome, Study, and Service as God’s own disciple in Christ.

In 2015, at our reflection sessions held each Sunday will be based on two blogs explained below.

GraceFullBible

GraceFullBible will be using a reading plan based on a reading of the New Testament in a Year. Click here to go to that blog, for more information, and reading plan.

The Bible in Time

The blog here … The Bible in Time will be a reading of the Bible daily using a best guess chronological reading or the readings arranged when they were written in time and arranged in chronological order.

This year we are going to be using The One Year ® Chronological Bible published by Tyndale House Publishers, worldwide in 2013.  This is their New International Version edition updated 2011 by Biblica, Inc. The One Year is their registered trademark. It is available on-line at Amazon at click here in electronic, paper, and hard cover formats. ISBN 978-1-4143-5992-2 (hard cover), ISBN 978-1-4143-5993-9 (softcover).  Another place to look to order - Click here at gettextbooks.com. Buy the book.

Weekly readings from the book Daily Reading index in this Bible.

At The Bible in Time blog site, there will be a daily posting consisting of a listing of the reading for the day, historical background and links, a reflection of the daily reading, the listing for the next day's reading, and a prayer, psalm, canticle, or scripture reading from the Book of Common prayer using noted on-line resources.  Besides daily office, the Book of Common Prayer provides a two year cycle of daily scripture that is integral to the life and walk with God.

Here is the publisher's background on the Bible:

A fascinating way to read through the Bible! Now you can gain a better understanding of the order of biblical events and the historical context in which they unfolded. The One Year Chronological Bible arranges the entire Bible text—books, chapters, and even verses—in the order the events actually happened.

In The One Year Chronological Bible, prophetic books are interwoven with the historical accounts they accompanied. Psalms follow the events they were written about. Proverbs are placed in the time frame in which they were compiled. The life of Christ is woven into one moving story. And Paul's letters to the young churches in the first century are integrated into the book of Acts. Transition statements help you understand why some Scripture portions appear where they do. You do not have to be a Bible historian to appreciate the fascinating new perspective waiting for you in The One Year Chronological Bible. It's like reading some of your favorite passages for the very first time.

The One Year Chronological Bible also has:

• 365 daily readings to help you read the entire Bible chronologically in one year
• Transition statements to help you understand why some Scripture portions appear where they do
• Historical dates indicating when the events actually occurred
• A general timeline of major events to give you a clear overview of Israel’s history
• A Scripture index in canonical order to help you find your favorite passages quickly and easily

From book sellers websites – Tyndale – Christianbook.com

In addition, there will be a weekly reflection session held in the Parish Hall of Grace Episcopal Church at 910 am - 945 am (local) each Sunday, where a group of readers and not, gather to reflect, question, discuss, and pray through the Bible for the purpose of enhancing faith and personal discipleship.  What is God calling you to do?  There is always good coffee.

May God truly bless your time in Scripture to be a blessing in the world!

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