You Reading Your Bible?

So it's Sunday, and due to a 5:50 a.m. phone call from a friend whose car broke down and needed a ride to Connexus this morning, I haven't cracked YouVersion yet today.  But I look forward to reading it tonight.

If we've tracked together at all, you know that daily bible reading is a core discipline for me.  The more I am in God's Word, the more alive I become. 

Just have to reiterate how refreshing YouVersion has been for me this year.  I don't get any commissions or kickbacks or even have any interest in YouVersion, but let me try to tell you why I like it:

• As a guy who has read a paper Bible for all my life and surfed online Bibles for research purposes for a few years now, reading my daily passages on the YouVersion iPhone app has been fantastic (it works on iPod touches too).  Somehow seeing the text on a screen makes it jump and pop in fresh ways.  You can read it off a regular browser too - not just off your phone.

• It's classic web 2.0 stuff.  You can keep an on line journal, see what others have to say about a text, add video to help comment on a passage, switch translations and more, plus...

• You can read in community.  I love reading in community.  To do this even more personally, you can "follow" people on YouVersion and they can follow you, and and RSS feed gives you easy access to their comments.  My friend Pat Dryburgh sampled this on his blog recently.  Enjoy.

• If you have trouble sticking to a reading plan, not only does tell you what to read every day, but the people who follow you and encourage you to stick with it.

If you want to join our journey, just follow me (search my username: cnieuwhof) and I'll follow you.  We'll be able to track together.  YouVersion is showing up a lot on Twitter these days...yet another layer to the community (you can follow me and many others who are daily Bible readers on Twitter too).

So...all of this is to encourage you to get into God's earth shaking, mind altering Word in 09 if you're not already into it.

What do you like about your personal bible reading...however you might do it?

Comments

[Joey]

Hey, I just set up YouVersion and it is great. It was easy to set up - though I'm still getting the hang of the navigation system. I can tell this is going to be a great experience. I found you, Carey. Looking forward to YouVersion journey.

[Diana]

Carey,
Thanks for the recommend on this site. I am experiencing what you mean about the words popping in new ways. The day we read about Lot's wife, it spun through my head all day.I've know this story for what seems like my whole life, but here's what wouldn't leave me: We waste so much time looking backwards at what was, when God is leading us out of harm, and into His greater purpose...I should have been a pillar of salt more than I care to admit.
I just haven't figured out how to actually connect my writing to the text. But, I'll get it.

[Gen Whyte]

all this new technology blows my mind, but I will give it a try. Don't want to miss out on the present day happenings or what God is doing in us all. God Bless