A Bible Reading Plan Worth Doing
This one-month plan might be the best thing you do this year.
I’ll admit it right from the get-go, I’m not a big Bible-reading-plan guy.
I’ve done the Bible-in-a-year a few times, and it’s great, but after 24 years of following Jesus I’ve landed in a rhythm that works for me: a bit of Psalms, something from the Old Testament, something from the New. Some days it’s rich and alive, I feel like I’m sitting at the table with the Lord. Other days it’s habit, discipline, obedience. Either way, it’s good. The Word never returns void, it always does something, even when I don’t feel it.
But this one-month reading plan?
It’s powerful… and honestly, I can’t recommend it enough.
I love YouVersion. I love what they’ve built, I use it, and the verse of the day is a blessing. But if we’re going to be formed by Scripture, really formed, we need more than a single verse and a motivational wallpaper. We need immersion. Big-picture. Context. We need to sit long enough in the story that it starts to rearrange us from the inside out.
Why This Plan Matters
This plan will:
• open your eyes to the big story of Scripture
• shape a deeper biblical imagination
• make connections you’ve never noticed
• take you into parts of the Bible you haven’t visited in a while
• reawaken awe — the kind you can feel in your bones
And here’s where I give honour where honour is due.
Nathan Finochio is a friend, and he’s contributed some incredible things to the Church. His books? Worth reading. TheosU and Theos Seminary? Brilliant resources. His substack? worth paying for. He’s one of the voices helping spark what has been coined a fourth-wave Pentecostal renewal, Word and Spirit together again, theology and orthodoxy fused with power and presence. And now he’s launched PreachX, a platform to help churches give credit for IP used in sermons (genius).
But the other day I told him that one of his greatest contributions to the Kingdom might actually be this Bible reading plan, and the way he’s helped it spread like wildfire.
So, thank you, Nathan.
The Plan Is Called The Shred
The entire Bible. In one month. January.
Here’s the link on YouVersion:
Depending on your reading speed (or audio pace), it’s roughly two hours a day.
That sounds like a lot, until you look at your screen time. You can be honest here.
(Conviction, but the good kind.)
Imagine starting your year immersed, not drip-fed.
Imagine being swept through the story instead of nibbling it verse by verse.
Imagine giving a whole month to the Word, and letting it speak deeply without hurry.
Look, you might just get a bunch of sermon ideas for the year ahead.
Do it with your spouse.
Do it with your friends.
Do it with your church staff, or your small group.
Do The Shred together.
You won’t regret it.
The Word of the Lord never returns void, and this month you will see it in a new way.
