Devotions in 2024

[bookslover]

Time for the annual question: what are you planning for your Bible reading next year?

As for me, I'm reading through six different books of Scripture (three per day, alternating) using Matthew Henry's commentary. I'm following Henry's divisions of the text for reading each passage as I go through each book. I'm currently alternating Genesis, 2 Kings, and Matthew with Job, Isaiah, and Acts.

I've had my Matthew Henry set for nearly 30 years and this is the first time I've seriously dug into it. He's pre-critical (and that's a compliment!), theologically sane, and practical. Why didn't I do this years ago?

Amazingly, Henry's commentary is currently out of print (hello Hendrickson? Reformation Heritage?), but used copies are available on Amazon, eBay, etc.

So, what are your plans for 2024?

 

[J.L. Allen]

My answer changes once I'm finished with seminary in May, D.V.

I plan on reading through the Pauline corpus several times over during the spring semester. This will help deepen my study while taking my final exegetical course at MARS. I think it'll be edifying.

After seminary, I hope to start back up the Horner Reading Plan again. I might modify the plan a bit by including Acts in the Gospels cycle.

 

[Joshua]

Will likely continue with me 3-4 read-throughs. Some quarters, it's consecutive by book (no split, just beginning with Genesis and ending with Revelation). Other times, it may have an OT/NT split per session (Gen/Mat, etc.). This current quarter had a Psalm each session, but was otherwise consecutive from Old Testament to New Testament. Not sure what I'll do beginning January 1. I usually create a schedule in Logos and share it with any fellow church members who have interest.

 

[Guido's Brother]

I plan to read through the Torah in Hebrew through the course of 2024.

 

[Blood-Bought Pilgrim]

I’m planning on reading the English Bible in 150 days, followed by one month of deeper study on a book of my choice, and then repeat that process for the second half of the year. I’m also going to be making a second attempt at reading through the Greek New Testament this year, following a plan I found which orders the books from to most difficult in terms of grammar and vocabulary.

 

[shunoshimobe]

I'll just be continuing Dr Horner's reading plan. I have found it such a blessing to simply continue reading the Bible over and over again part by part as it's laid out in his plan. Been doing it since last October. I do want to get around to reading John Owen's Death of Death though.

 

[therussellhome]

I'm continuing in my "Every word in the Bible" which is a ~3 year plan that is largely a chapter a day. I should be finishing late in the year and will restart over at the beginning.

 

[bookslover]

Here's a good, short example of Matthew Henry applying the Scriptures. He is remarking on Matthew 20:29-34 -

"It is the will of God that we should, in everything, make our requests known to Him by prayer and supplication, not to inform or move Him but to qualify ourselves for the mercy. The waterman in the boat who, with his hook, takes hold of the shore, does not thereby pull the shore to the boat but the boat to the shore. So, in prayer, we do not draw the mercy to ourselves but ourselves to the mercy." (Commentary 5:237)

Pithy and memorable. That's Matthew Henry.