{"id":9050,"date":"2021-01-03T13:14:18","date_gmt":"2021-01-03T19:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=9050"},"modified":"2021-01-03T13:15:13","modified_gmt":"2021-01-03T19:15:13","slug":"reading-the-bible-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=9050","title":{"rendered":"READING THE BIBLE IN 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Here is a piece I wrote for\u00a0<em>Christianity Today<\/em>\u00a0at the beginning\u00a0of 2020.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/scot-mcknight\/2020\/january\/reading-bible-fast-and-slow.html\">https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/scot-mcknight\/2020\/january\/reading-bible-fast-and-slow.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>If you read my piece you will see that I intended to do three quick readings of the Bible. That changed pretty early on. I finished the Old Testament, but then got gloriously stuck in some slow reads of a few books in the Bible.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I have always been comfortable allowing for flexibility as long as my overall goal of regular engagement with the\u00a0Bible takes place.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>For the past couple of months I have been mulling over and do multiple\u00a0reads of both Lamentations and Jonah. Since I am putting together mini commentaries for both, I may be gloriously stuck there for some time!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Your &#8220;Bible-reading plan for this year&#8221; may get modified as mine did last year, but whatever you end up doing, make it a priority to have regular intake of God&#8217;s Word. It is always good to plead for God to &#8220;open our eyes to behold wonderful things from\u00a0His Word.&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a piece I wrote for\u00a0Christianity Today\u00a0at the beginning\u00a0of 2020. https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/scot-mcknight\/2020\/january\/reading-bible-fast-and-slow.html If you read my piece you will see that I intended to do three quick readings of the Bible. That changed pretty early on. I finished the Old Testament, but then got gloriously stuck in some slow reads of a few books in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible","category-bible-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9050"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9052,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9050\/revisions\/9052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}