{"id":132,"date":"2010-12-30T13:00:34","date_gmt":"2010-12-30T13:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gallifant.com\/?p=132"},"modified":"2012-12-31T14:16:59","modified_gmt":"2012-12-31T19:16:59","slug":"a-new-year-bible-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gallifant.com\/a-new-year-bible-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Year: Bible Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/span><\/p>\n New Years. The smell of spandex and skinny lattes is in the air. For the next seven days you will witness an extraordinary amount of workout outfits….for better or for worse. Subway and Sport’s Authority peak in sales while Long John Silvers plummets (okay, they never do that well to begin with). New Years. I’ve found it’s easy to be skeptical about the ambitious goals people around us espouse, especially the workout folk! However, it’s equally easy to feed off of that ambition for our own lives and for good. Actually, I utilize the New Years holiday as a time to reflect and reach forward. I look briefly at what went well and why it worked well. I also look at things I’d love to see happen in my life by filling out a basic “Roles and Goals<\/a>” sheet. One goal I love to lay forward for the year is how I will read and\/or study the Bible. I like to set this at the beginning of the year because it’s typically the time when my head is clearest. That’s not to say I couldn’t deter from my plan should the Lord lead, but I have a plan in place regardless. Proverbs 16:9 clarifies this beautifully, “The heart of man plans his way, but the LORD establishes his steps.”<\/p>\n Let me encourage you to take some time to decide how you will read & study the Bible this year. First, allow me to clarify some things:<\/p>\n Optional suggestions:<\/p>\n Here’s a compilation of various Bible reading plans. Scan through several of these and pick one that you like:<\/p>\n New Years. The smell of spandex and skinny lattes is in the air. For the next seven days you will witness an extraordinary amount of workout outfits….for better or for worse. Subway and Sport’s Authority peak in sales while Long John Silvers plummets (okay, they never do that well to begin with). New Years. I’ve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Y9ZB-28","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gallifant.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gallifant.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gallifant.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gallifant.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gallifant.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.gallifant.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":584,"href":"http:\/\/www.gallifant.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions\/584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gallifant.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gallifant.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gallifant.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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