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paperback, 16 chapters, 204 pages
Everybody quits in Leviticus.
Every January, a lot of Christians decide this is the year they'll read the whole Bible. Genesis goes great. It has a plot. Exodus has a plot and frogs. Then come seven chapters of tabernacle blueprints, a book that opens with instructions for cutting up a bull, and a chapter on what to do when your house gets a skin disease. By the second week of February the plan is dead, and the bookmark is still in Leviticus. It may be there right now.
You didn't quit because you're a bad Christian. You quit because nobody told you the kind of writing was about to change.
The Bible is a library of sixty-six books: stories, laws, genealogies, poems, proverbs, prophets, Gospels, letters, and one apocalypse. Each kind of writing wants to be read its own way, at its own speed. Read a law code like a novel and it feels like dying. Read it like a law code and it starts to make sense.
How to Read the Bible Without Quitting in Leviticus is a practical and occasionally ridiculous guide for anyone who has started the Bible and stalled. Preacher and author Michael Whitworth, who has quit in Leviticus himself, walks through every shelf of the library and tells you what you're looking at, what to watch for, and what you're allowed to skim.
Inside you'll find:
The whole story of the Bible, from the garden to the new creation, told in about the time it takes to make coffee, so you always know where you are
What to do with a chapter about mildew, and why the second greatest commandment is in Leviticus
Why the Old Testament heroes keep letting you down (it's on purpose)
How to read the Psalms, the prophets, the Gospels, Paul's letters, and Revelation without getting lost or scared
Eighteen "Danger Zone" survival plans for the exact stretches where reading plans go to die, from Numbers 7 to Ezekiel's temple measurements
Nine reading plans built for people with jobs and children, from a ninety-day sprint to a two-year pace, with checklists for each
What to do when you fall behind: skip to today, and never restart at Genesis 1
The best reading plan is the one that survives February. This book is built to help yours make it to March, and from there all the way to Revelation.
paperback, 16 chapters, 204 pages
Everybody quits in Leviticus.
Every January, a lot of Christians decide this is the year they'll read the whole Bible. Genesis goes great. It has a plot. Exodus has a plot and frogs. Then come seven chapters of tabernacle blueprints, a book that opens with instructions for cutting up a bull, and a chapter on what to do when your house gets a skin disease. By the second week of February the plan is dead, and the bookmark is still in Leviticus. It may be there right now.
You didn't quit because you're a bad Christian. You quit because nobody told you the kind of writing was about to change.
The Bible is a library of sixty-six books: stories, laws, genealogies, poems, proverbs, prophets, Gospels, letters, and one apocalypse. Each kind of writing wants to be read its own way, at its own speed. Read a law code like a novel and it feels like dying. Read it like a law code and it starts to make sense.
How to Read the Bible Without Quitting in Leviticus is a practical and occasionally ridiculous guide for anyone who has started the Bible and stalled. Preacher and author Michael Whitworth, who has quit in Leviticus himself, walks through every shelf of the library and tells you what you're looking at, what to watch for, and what you're allowed to skim.
Inside you'll find:
The whole story of the Bible, from the garden to the new creation, told in about the time it takes to make coffee, so you always know where you are
What to do with a chapter about mildew, and why the second greatest commandment is in Leviticus
Why the Old Testament heroes keep letting you down (it's on purpose)
How to read the Psalms, the prophets, the Gospels, Paul's letters, and Revelation without getting lost or scared
Eighteen "Danger Zone" survival plans for the exact stretches where reading plans go to die, from Numbers 7 to Ezekiel's temple measurements
Nine reading plans built for people with jobs and children, from a ninety-day sprint to a two-year pace, with checklists for each
What to do when you fall behind: skip to today, and never restart at Genesis 1
The best reading plan is the one that survives February. This book is built to help yours make it to March, and from there all the way to Revelation.