|
| |||
|
Welcome!
about more +ve stuff help - site overview - bible passages - daily readings - passage lookup - keyword search - passage history - references - word definitions preferences ask a question / feedback RSS feeds site blog daily readings by email link to this site useful links and downloads back to the bible |
Help on using read.thepositiveword.com - Daily Readings
The following tool allows you to select one of the three daily readings for the day:
You click on the link for the reading you wish to look at. Alternatively, if you want to view the readings for a different day then select the day (1 to 31) and month, then click on 'go'. By default, if no other passage is requested, the site displays a passage from the daily readings for the day. You can specify which portion and your timezone (to make sure that the day is correctly determined) by setting your preferences The 'Daily Readings' are followed by many Christadelphians world wide. You can see the full plan here or download a daily devotional module for the Sword bible software from the downloads page. The daily readings are also available as RSS feeds. This plan was developed over 100 years ago by Robert Roberts of the Christadelphians. Below is his encouragement to follow the daily reading plan: "SALVATION depends upon the assimilation of the mind to the divine ideas, principles, and affections, exhibited in the Scriptures. This process commences with a belief of Ihe gospel, but it is by no means completed thereby; it lakes a lifetime for its scope, and untiring diligence for its accomplishment. The mind is naturally alien from God and all His ideas (Rom. 8:7; 1 Cor. 2:14), and cannot be brought at once to the Divine Likeness. This is a work of slow development, and can only be achieved by the industrious application of the individual to the expression of His mind in the Scriptures of truth. The infallible advice then to every man and woman anxious about their salvation is - READ THE SCRIPTURES DAILY. It is only in proportion as this is done, that success may be looked for. The man who sows sparingly in this respect, will only reap sparingly. Much spiritual fructification is only to be realised in connection with fructifying influences oflhe Spirit in the word. To enable Bible readers conveniently to carry out the suggestion of the foregoing remarks, the following tables, are placed in their hands, under the guidance of which, their daily readings will be methodical and edifying. An indiscriminate and haphazard reading of the Bible is unprofitable, and soon ceases to be interesting, straightforward reading from Genesis, is also objectionable. A little read every day from various parts of the word has been found experimentally to be practicable, attractive and profitable. The following tables are arranged on this plan, giving the reader three portions, in a day; which it will take only a quarter of an hour or twenty minutes to read, and enable him in the course of a year to get through the whole Bible - traversing the New Testament twice, and the Old Testament once. in the course of twelve months. By a strict adherence to this plan from year to year, the reader will reap much profit, and find himself or herself gradually losing the insipidity of the natural mind, and taking on the warm and exalted tone of the Spirit's teachings, which qualifies for the inheritance of the Saints in light."
|
||