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Reading plans

Pick a way through

A plan is a path and a bookmark. The next unread day waits for you; pick it up any morning, and MannaFest holds your place until you do. The shortest plans are first.

9 plans

What each one asks of you

The Sermon on the Mount (Carl Bloch)
Carl Bloch, The Sermon on the Mount (1877) — public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Four days: Matthew's three chapters, then Luke's shorter account of the same teaching.

4
days
4
chapters
1
a day

Day one

Matthew 5

The Adoration of the Magi (Edward Burne-Jones)
Edward Burne-Jones, The Adoration of the Magi — public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

One Gospel at one chapter a morning: twenty-eight chapters, twenty-eight days.

28
days
28
chapters
1
a day

Day one

Matthew 1

The Good Shepherd (Bernhard Plockhorst)
Bernhard Plockhorst (1825-1907), The Good Shepherd — public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Psalms 1 to 30, one a morning, in the order the Psalter puts them.

30
days
30
chapters
1
a day

Day one

Psalms 1

Adam and Eve Are Driven out of Eden
Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866) — public domain

Thirty days, one chapter each, tracing the promise of a coming deliverer from Eden to the last page.

30
days
30
chapters
1
a day

Day one

Genesis 3

The Pentecost (El Greco)
El Greco, Pentecost (1597) — public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Matthew to Revelation in three months: about three chapters a day.

90
days
260
chapters
2.9
a day

Day one

Matthew 1–3

The Creation of Light
Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866) — public domain

All 1,189 chapters, front to back, about three a day.

365
days
1,189
chapters
3.3
a day

Day one

Genesis 1–4

Job Hears of His Misfortunes
Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866) — public domain

The whole Bible in a year, rearranged so the story runs in time order.

365
days
1,189
chapters
3.3
a day

Day one

Genesis 1–4

Ezra Reads the Law to the People
Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866) — public domain

Four bookmarks moving through Scripture at once, after the calendar Robert Murray M'Cheyne gave his church in 1842.

365
days
1,189
chapters
3.3
a day

Day one

Genesis 1–2 · Ezra 1–2 · Matthew 1 · Acts 1

  • The Law and the Histories
  • The Prophets and the Wisdom
  • The Gospels and the Psalms
  • The Church and the Letters
The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb (Jan and Hubert van Eyck)
Jan and Hubert van Eyck, the central panel of the Ghent Altarpiece (1432) — public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

All 1,189 chapters, front to back, at one or two a day.

730
days
1,189
chapters
1.6
a day

Day one

Genesis 1–2