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Following are links to resources and practices of my own that I have found valuable. I will be adding to this frequently. Using a daily Bible reading guide is your best insurance for reading consistently.
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Bible Reading Plans
- NEW!–Bible in a Year by The Practical Disciple. A custom plan designed to help you finish the entire Bible in a year and maintain your interest.
- The 5x5x5 Reading Plan–5 minutes per day, 5 days per week, covers the New Testament in a year from the Discipleship Journal Magazine
- The Book-at-a-Time Bible Reading Plan–25 readings a month takes you through the Bible in a year. Also from Discipleship Journal Magazine
- The Discipleship Journal Bible Reading Plan–Read four places in God’s Word every day to better grasp the unity of the Scriptures, takes you through the Bible in a year. Also from Discipleship Journal Magazine
- Top 40 Bible Passages from the book, The Disciple Making Church by Glenn McDonald
- Luke in Forty Days
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Bible Reading/Study Methods
- Lectio Divina. ”Spiritual reading” Lectio Divina is a very meditative practice of prayerfully reading scripture.
- Stumo Inductive Bible Study Method, Page 1. A Bible study method that involves systematically making observations of the text and drawing conclusions from those observations. Be sure to download both page 1 and page 2.
- Stumo Inductive Bible Study Method, Page 2.
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Simplicity
- Forty bags in Forty days. This how I purged 40 bags of clutter from my life, with tips on how to get started.
- Forty days free of a media habit. If you are a television or internet addict, try this discipline to set you free.
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Compassion
- Love Notes. Write a short note of encouragement or thanks to 40 people in 40 days.
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Prayer Models
- The Examen. A simple five part model of prayer began by St. Ignatius of Loyola.
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John,
These look like great resources. Is there a way to put a little bookmark at the top of your page (where the uncategorized, prayer, scripture, discernment, etc. bookmarks are) to get to this page quickly? Or is there already an easy way to get there that I am not seeing?
Thanks again!
Erin
OK, now I feel quite unobservant! I just needed to look a little higher for that resource button… Isn’t that how life is too often, we look too low!
Erin
Erin, don’t feel bad. I’m not 100% pleased with the size and visibility of the page buttons at the top of the page myself. I’ll need to hack my template to fix it though and I just haven’t dared to go there yet. In the meantime, I’lI work out a big resource button in one of the right columns to make it very easy for folks to find. I appreciate your feedback. Thank you for reading The Practical Disciple
Hi John,
Great resources. They’re so . . . practical!
Do you have the Love Notes document? The link above doesn’t take me to the correct one.
Thanks for all you do!
Cheryl
Cheryl, my apologies for the misaddressed link. Thanks to your reporting it has now been fixed. You may visit the resource page to download it at any time, but for you convenience here is the link: http://thepracticaldisciple.com/lent/lovenotes.pdf
Thank you, John Arnold
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