Signing Off For Lent

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For Lent I am fasting all my blogging! No Blogspot, MySpace or Facebook. May you experience me reflecting more of God when I come back at Easter!

Blessings on my readers during these very special days!

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Lent Is Right Around the Corner

I have posted this before, but it is time to post it again. Jonathan sent this e-mail out in 2005.


I heard a sermon on a CD recently that has challenged me to a new idea for reading scripture that I'm going to try out this month. If you read ten chapters a day, six days of the week, you will complete the New Testament in one month. It didn't talk about this, but also if you do the same with the Old Tesament, skipping Psalms, you can complete it in 3 months. I am attempting to do both, ten in each, everyday for the next three months. I am emailing you to see if you would join me in at least the NT part. Doing both ends out taking quite a chunk of your morning. If you don't have a job, don't have any friends, and don't have anything to do except train, eat, and rest, then I'd ask you to join me with the OT as well. (He had just moved to Bend, OR when he wrote this!) I have yet to find any type of consistent community up here to be accountable to, to feel a part of, etc. It would be great to have friends back home joining me in this. But don't do it for me, or you'll end up hating me every morning. If you are already in the middle of something fruitful, by all means don't stop. But if you're struggling to be in the Word, or aren't in it at all, this is a great game plan and a great time to start it. Please reply and tell me whether you can/can't, will/won't. I know it is a little late notice to start for February, but who cares. Finish march 2nd. I sent this to people I'm close to that I thought might actually do it. If you want to send this to more friends/family, go ahead. Maybe it will spread and the whole country will be reading the Bible :) -Jonathan

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So Jonathan, Mom takes the liberty to send your challenge out one more time! It is great to do this during the Lent season.