Read the One Story of the One God in Two Years

“Reading the Bible’s 'One Story in Two Years is a fitting result of Fran’s decades of faithful teaching through the redemption narrative of Scripture, Genesis to Revelation. This Bible reading program provides readers with a steady diet of God’s Word at a pace that is realistic and digestible. It has been a blessing in my relationship with Christ and others in their 20’s to 60’s are expressing the same enjoyment.”

CHAD MIZE

Associate Pastor of Missions & Mobilization • Nashville, TN

"I am especially grateful for the “grace” built into the, Reading the Bible’s One Story in Two Years reading program, and how the Psalms are fitted into each week, which draws one in emotionally and prayerfully. My men's group has found it very useful, as we each read individually during the week and then meet to discuss and read together which informs our prayer time together. I have also found it helpful in drawing new believers into reading Scripture and becoming familiar with the story of the Bible. Thanks, Fran!"

Craig Ogard

Cathedral Church of the Advent • Birmingham, AL

Knowing how to approach the Bible is a confusing task. The Table of Contents in our Bibles provides the names of the 66 books of the Bible, but doesn’t do so in the order that they actually occurred. For instance, the entirety of the history of the Old Testament is in the first 17 books of the Bible, Genesis through Esther. The remaining 22 books of the Old Testament all actually occurred during the time frame covered in those first 17. The arrangement of the 27 books of the New Testament is also not based on the flow of New Testament history.

I created this two-year Bible reading program to help you accomplish two goals: (1) To read through the entire Bible in a reasonable time frame, and (2) to do so in a way that introduces you to the narrative nature of the Bible. Or put another way, for you to see the Bible for what it really is: the One Story of the One God to accomplish what the Apostle Paul called, “God’s plan for the fullness of time to unite all things in heaven and earth in Christ.” It consists of 96 weeks of readings, 5 per week, giving freedom for holidays, vacations and other changes in our daily rhythms.

Because the Bible is a narrative, but the individual books of the Bible are not always chronological in nature, creating such a reading program that is both easy to use and as close to chronological as possible was very difficult. So, I offer this effort a spirit of humility knowing that it is not perfect, but with the hope that you will grow in your understanding of the storyline of God’s Word.