I really like the system and will continue to use it. I don’t finish the entire ten chapters every day, but I’m reading way more of the Bible than I did before, and I like reading from different parts at once.

I’ve picked up the system when it was introduced on this blog. As a first-year teacher, I have found that reading five chapters on weekdays and ten on weekends is my limit for the time-being.

I started using the plan but very quickly got tripped-up with trying to remember my place in each section. I used the bookmarks but even they weren’t always helpful. And I’m not very coordinated in the firsts place!

I see some people have overcome this obstacle with their Kendals. That’s great. I for one am not that tech savvy. But I like this plan if you can keep it together!

Tim, I’ve been using Horner’s system for 2 months now and am very much enjoying it. I find that it forces me to slow down and spend much time in God’s Word. If I miss a day I find I can’t wait to get back to it. I’ve also appreciated the interplay of the passages, and it’s helping me see how sovereign God really is.

Jerry, could you explain how you ported the system over to the Kindle? I, too, have a kindle and would love to read through the system on it. But how did you get the original text? And then how did you format it for the Kindle? I would really appreciate your answers.

I started this system a few months ago after hearing Horner talk about the system on our Christian radio station, Pilgrim Radio. I really like the system and the idea of rotating Romans is really appealing. I just have to be careful not to drift during my reading time.

Tim this is the one thing I have successfully implemented. Thank you so much for giving us this information. I have greatly enjoyed this reading through the bible 10 chapters at a time program.

I’ve been using it for a week. (Yeah, I know, big whoop.) I don’t the the lists in order, though. I put the bookmarks in place, then start at the front each day. I guess I’m not smart enough to be flipping back and forth and be sure I hit everything.

Gregory,

I think there is some to be gained from your comment. While I don’t think the Horner system is bad in the least, I think that some people might use the quantity of reading to not make time for quality, meditative reading. I’m at Southern Seminary right now and Donald Whitney has been teaching on the benefits of Scripture meditation. He says we should have an emphasis on both reading through the Bible often and meditating on it daily. Both are important, in my opinion.

I have been asked several times how Horner’s system allows for meditation. It doesn’t. His system is all about saturation, something evangelicals have sadly neglected in recent history. As a tool for meditation, I recommend memorizing Scripture. If you do Prof. Horner’s system and memorize Scripture, you can expect powerful spiritual impact within weeks.

This method is the equivalent of “channel-surfing” the bible. I must admit I have been enjoying it because the wide exposure to different genres in one sitting keeps me engaged and makes it easier to read more content than I normally would. I am not sure if it is the best method for new Christians who do not have a grasp of the bible already. They might find it confusing and overwhelming. But since I have some reasonable background in most of the books, dipping into them again, a chapter at a time is great.

Hands down the best reading system i’ve tried. Keeps my reading fresh, and helps me saturate myself in scripture.

I have done many different reading systems and stuck it through and made them work. I never got a feel for the Bible through these plans. This system so far just seems to fit me like a glove. Everyday I see the broad strokes of the story, impactful specifics, and I remember what I read (believe it or not with that much to swallow day to day). The only thing I will change is making durable bookmarks.

Did you know there’s an online/mobile version for doing this electronically? See below for more.

I began reading this way on your recommendation, and I love it! I find that I am excited to know that the combination of passages I’m reading today is one I’ve never read before, and I’ll never read the same combination again. The novel juxtapositions really reinforce the fact that Scripture is a unified whole, with only one author…the Holy Spirit of God. As Horner points out, Scripture is its own best interpreter, and having different passages put together for the first time allows them to illumine one another in whole new ways.

So far I have not made any changes. I am enjoying working through Acts for the second time now, and I decided to let that stand for a while. In the future, who knows? I may substitute another book in the 10th place for a while as others have done.

As for the online version, go to www.youversion.com. Horner’s plan is listed as one of their reading plans. When you sign up, you can go to your plan and it gives you your ten chapters for that day all in one place for easy reading (choose whatever translation you like…I’m using ESV). Set the start date to whatever date you actually started, so it will sync to where you are right now. (Of course it can’t accommodate altered plans.) The site syncs with an application that I downloaded to my Android device for mobile reading, and I know there are versions available for users of other devices.

Thank you, Tim, for introducing me to this outstanding program!

Tim: Would agree with many of the positive comments. I have always been a rapid reader so this fits my mode of reading. So I am keeping up with the 10 chapters and in some of the historical books I am adding an additional chapter. I know that the key is reading without pausing or marking but I find that I have time to reflect and record some key verses that I can come back to later. So I am loving it. Thanks for alerting us to his system.

I have been using this system since the beginning of August 2009, and I must say it has been a blessing. I started out with 10 chapters per day, but couldn’t keep up the pace, because I cannot read without a pen in hand to jot down notes.

I read five chapters per day most days. I copy out a verse or two in red ink, then interact with in by writing down an insight or a prayer that comes to my mind from reading the chapter. Occasionally I dally in one or two chapters because there is just so much to take in. The next day I’ll finish the three or the seven that are left, depending on how the Spirit leads.

Writing out my prayers is helpful to me - although I don’t write them out every day.

I find I often blog what I am learning in my Bible reading.

It’s been a feast. I never realized how hungry I was until I started reading this way. It’s delightful to see the relationship between different books of the Bible and even different genres within the books. I often notice themes in my reading. One example: http://exultingchristian.blogspot.com/2009/09/behold.html

Tim,

I have been using the system since you posted it last month.

The system works well for me as a daily bible reading plan in addition to specific study.

I have tweaked the lists a bit (lumping Acts in with the gospels and Proverbs in with some of the other wisdom books) to make room for two more lists: current youth teaching (I teach youth group) and current Sunday sermon (our pastor preaches exegetically through books of the bible).

I am particularly blessed reading through Galatians once every six days as we work through it as a church. This helps me anticipate and connect the weekly sermons.

Thanks for sharing this useful resource!

I too have been using youversion on my blackberry to track progress. Slight difference though, I’ve been using the M’Cheyne reading plan, at 4-5 chapters per day I find that it is a) enough of a challenge to motivate me to complete b) broad enough to keep my interest and c) slow enough to allow me to absorb what I’m reading.I really can’t say enough about youversion for my mobile device. Suddenly that 15 minutes waiting for a meeting, or the 45 minutes waiting for a flight, can become quality time with God’s Word….

I started after your original post, and I love it. I haven’t always been consistent, but that’s my lack of discipline, not a problem with this system. And I don’t know how many chapters I read each time. I use the bookmarks and whenever I’m ready to stop, I just pop up the next bookmark and leave the rest flush so I know where to start next time. Sometimes I only have time for 2 or 3 chapters, other times I may read 20 or more. And I face the bookmark towards whatever page is next, and put it rightside up if the first chapter on the page is next, and upside down if the last chapter on the page is next (if there are more than 2 chapters, I read all the chapters on the page - easy enough since they’re short). It’s a nice, low-tech system.

I was already doing regular scripture memorization which is invaluable to me and where I spend my time really meditating and applying verses and shorter passages, as well as tackling some longer ones, but I really wanted a good system to help me be reading through the whole Bible all the time, and this is the first one that I haven’t gotten bogged down in. And I can’t get behind. I love it.

I found that, having begun the project, I really began enjoying the reading, but found it too restrictive. Still, all was not lost. I was so interested in the Pentateuch that I simply stuck with reading that. Since starting the scattered reading, although I’m not following the system, I’m still reading consistently, although from beginning to end. If I find Leviticus to be not quite all I need that day, I can always hop back into the system where I left off in the other books until I’m through the more challenging reading.

By far the best Bible-reading system I’ve ever encountered. It’s a pure joy to read each day, and like everyone says, to DAILY see how everything connects and get a beautiful picture of God’s sovereignty. I recommended it to a few people and they’re all on board.

Thanks for posting the first time, and I pray even more people will be blessed with this second post.

Thanks for sharing Prof Horner’s excellent Bible reading system.

For many people a good physical exercise program helps a lot for maintaining discipline when participating in sport. For example, this program http://hundredpushups.com/ helps me to at least get some exercise done through a busy work schedule: :) Now it is excellent to have a program to “exercise” in God’s Word as well! I can’t wait to read the 5 or 10 chapters (depending on time available) of the Bible each day.

As some has said, it is good to combine Prof Horner’s program with more in-depth reading and memorizing of Bible verses. Using Prof Horner’s program to learn to know the Bible as a whole much better, helps to give the memorizing of verses and in-depth bible study better context.

This is ironic. I just started the system yesterday. Someone told me about it and I put it off and decided to pick it up, so today is my second day. So far I’ve been faithful. If I remember I’ll repost in a month or two how I am doing.

I started this plan when I found out about it on this blog, and have just passed the 40 day mark. It’s a good plan for people like me that read a lot anyway - because 10 chapters is a lot. I like the system because its quite customizable. For instance, I started reading in Ecclesiastes, rather than Job, because I’d recently read through Job. I also read Lamentations through before restarting Job, although I don’t know if that was a great idea.

The epistles lists in particular seem ripe for customization, depending if you want to focus on a particular book or set of books. Also, if you get tired of reading Acts or Proverbs over and over, you can tag them onto a longer list and put something else in heavy rotation. So, all in all, I anticipate sticking with this system for about a year. Timewise I find I’m sometimes forced to break the readings in 2 - half in the morning and half at night. Other than that, for someone like me who reads a lot anyway, there’s no excuse not to stick with it.

For someone who reads less, maybe revising the system into 4 or 5 lists would work better.