Another year - another run through

So here we go again. This is the third time we have decided to read through the Bible from cover to cover in 90 days. In the previous years, not every one who has started has finished in the time scale, and yet more have done so than thought they would be able to.

So what are my expectations this time?

I am looking forward to doing this with hope, expectation and dread. The dread comes from my natural laziness and lack of self-discipline, as I know that this will require a significant sacrifice on my part. At weekends in particular, I shall have to get up earlier, and during the week, I shall have to be much more disciplined in my time in the morning than I have grown accustomed to.

But form past experience, I know this to be a worthwhile sacrifice. I have felt the Holy Spirit lift me and give me energy throughout the months I have done the reading, proof that his word is living and active. I am looking forward to experiencing the effect that the more I read of his word, the more I want to read it. It really is an appetite that grows with feeding and shrivels with starvation.

The year at St Paul's has started with Chris talking to us from Romans 12. The challenge that I have felt strongly is the call not to be conformed to the pattern of the world, but to be transformed by the renewing of the mind. With the 90-day exercise, I see a means to carry out part of that daily offering of myself as a living sacrifice, which is an act of spiritual worship.

So please feel free to join us as we start on this journey again. This blog is available to all, and all the posts from a previous time are readily available in the blog's archive.

In the words of Galatians 6:9-10, "Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers."