Welcome to 2010! We pray that your Holidays were blessed and carefree. How did you begin your new year? With a party? With a reading of scripture? Did you make a New Year's resolution? Was it to lose weight, read the Bible more diligently, pray regularly rather than sporadically, visit the fatherless and widows? We all seem to make those resolutions but research has shown that 92% that are made "in good faith" are not kept. In fact, only a very small number of us successfully achieve our resolutions. Why is that we fail? One author noted that a resolution must be made with these criteria in mind:  Determine the point or reason for making your resolution. Tell someone about your goal. Set up a measurement to hold yourself accountable to your change. Statistically it has been proven that without those three steps you are guaranteed failure.

Many have written to us here at bible.org saying that one of their New Year's resolutions is to be more faithful in their daily Bible reading or to memorize scripture. The Holy Spirit is busy tugging at our hearts to see if we will yield to His wishes so that we might grow and mature into the person that God desires, that we become conformed to the image of Christ. We have pulled together several "helps" for you that are scattered across the bible.org websites see http://bible.org/get-connected. On this page you will find links to several daily Bible reading plans for you to ponder.

Reading Plans

1. The Rev. R. M. M'Cheyne, Plan --- The whole bible will be read through in an orderly manner in the course of a year. - The Old Testament once, the New Testament and Psalms twice.

2. The Daily Reading Plan: This one is organized by reading from Genesis to Revelation two chapters a day. 

3. The NTPSPR is a plan to read the New Testament, Psalms and Proverbs through the year. 

4. A Chronological Plan  reading the Bible through as some scholars believe it was recorded. 

5.  A Daily VOD (Verse of the Day) which was developed from Dr Greg Herrick's article titled "An Advanced Scripture Memory Program .

These FREE daily reading plans are on page http://bible.org/get-connected

Scripture Memorization

bible.org has an article explaining the why and how, along with selected scriptures to memorize for each category: http://bible.org/article/advanced-scripture-memory-program The memory program is composed of ten sections: I) The Bible; II) God; III) Jesus Christ IV) The Holy Spirit; V) Angels VI) Man and Sin VII) Salvation VIII) The Church IX) End Times; X) The Gospel. These categories are generally recognized as providing an organized structure for the main areas of scriptural revelation. Within each one of these sections we have a further breakdown, though more could be added. There is, nonetheless, enough material here to keep a person going for a long, long time. We provide a pdf file of the verse texts that one of our volunteers did and you can print as scripture cards using categories.

Prayer

Each week our volunteer Coordinator puts together a prayer sheet for the many who serve faithfully here at bible.org and across the globe. Prayer is the key to the success of the ministry and we cherish all those who pray regularly for the ministry. To reduce spam a person must be a registered user. If you would like to join others in praying for the ministry send us an email. The day of delivery is generally on Fridays. If you are a registered user on bible.org

bible.org Evangelist, Supporters and Friends 

 Bible.org has been blessed to have on its staff here and across the globe those whose expertise is in the technical field. Their 2010 passion is to help in the area of Biblical Studies. Here’s their vision: Put together a weekly supplemental idea or ideas to assist the Sunday School Teacher no matter what curriculum is being used. For example, the Lifeway people have a section called “EXTRA” for their weekly lesson. Here at bible.org we do not want to be limited to a particular denominational persuasion. It is the “techies” desire that all curriculum’s are featured. Their vision is to have added resources; news items; object lessons, handouts, question sheets, maps, commentaries, books and so on. If you would like to have your curriculum/church represented, send us a note. The ‘techies’ have the ideas but would benefit from some of you who love Sunday School teaching and would like to work on this project along with them. Send us a note !

You've enjoyed the NET Bible quality of translation and notes for years now and may have wondered how you can help others know about it as well. Join the bible.org family and sign up to promote the NET Bible to your local Christian bookstore or Church resource center/bookstore. By giving us your information, we will send you free brochures of the NET Bible and bible.org to hand out to bookstores, pastors, and friends. In this way, you can help spread the NET Bible to your community.

For almost 14 years, the NET Bible has been available online free. Actually before the translation was completed, it's been online in draft form. And for 4 years, the First Edition of the NET Bible has been available in print. The profits of the sale of the print editions help fund the non-profit website. But in order to keep the prices down, we have chosen a publisher-direct model rather than go through distribution. Unfortunately, this model limits our exposure to many communities where not many have heard about the NET Bible. We sell on our website all of our materials, but that limits our scope as well. We don't have a distributor, but prefer to sell directly to bookstores and churches who resell the NET Bible to individuals.

What is a bible.org Evangelist?

Like an evangelist who spreads good news of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, we desire fans and users of the NET Bible to help us in spreading the news of the translation and of the excellent ministry of bible.org. As a non-profit ministry who desires all to benefit from the quality resources available online, we don't have a "marketing" or "advertising" budget. Since the truth of the Bible is shared so effectively in community and through relationships, we believe that the way to spread the bible.org ministry best is through you, our users.

How can I help?

Send us an email and provide us with how many bookstores or contacts you believe you might be able to make with distribution of brochures. Please include your address and we'll mail you brochures free of charge.

I don't have a bookstore near me, is there some other way to help?

Definitely! You can volunteer your time or talent.

Become a Supporter & Friend. You can donate financially to the ministry. Half of our budget comes from our Supporters and Friends.

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News that we wish did not happen but did:

Our November newsletter ended up in a lot of junk mail boxes due to some technical glitches with our mail supplier. This newsletter contained the November donor report which we reposted on the site for all to read. Technology is great…when it works as it was intended to do so. We apologize for this and please pray that all of the glitches have been resolved.

We received a significant increase in donations in Dec 09 and we are in the process of gathering the data for the 2009 donor report that we plan to distribute this year by email to save the extra expense of postage. Although we most likely did not make our goal of replenishing the bank account, we are praising God for His faithfulness to provide what He has deemed we needed. We are so grateful for your diligence to provide the funds to keep bible.org up and running.

Check out the new link on our contact us page for you to Tell us How Bible.org has Blessed You

We have a short 2 question survey if you have 3 minutes see http://users.bible.org/form/survey