Early this New Years Day morning I have begun reading the Bible for the 40th time. I started in 1976, the bicentennial year.
I wanted to do something that year that would commemorate our nation and its religious heritage. I had already been in the ministry nine years at that point, but had never read the entire Bible. I decided it was time to change that failure on my part.
When I began that year, I was Pastor of Airport Baptist Church in Grenada MS. When I finished I was at Gosnell Baptist Church near Blytheville AR.
At the time I had no idea I would be reading the entire Bible annually for four decades. I have never regretted this rigorous spiritual discipline. I heartily commend it to you.
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