The M'Cheyne Bible reading plan
At the moment I'm following a version of Robert Murray M'Cheyne's daily Bible reading scheme. You can see what I'm supposed to be reading today on my homepage. You could also visit my Interactive M'Cheyne Bible Reading Calendar.
Robert Murray M'Cheyne was an early 19th century pastor and preacher. Amongst his legacy is his scheme for daily Bible reading. In its original formulation it takes the reader through the the Old Testament once and the New Testament and Psalms twice per year. This means reading about four chapters a day, taken from different parts of the Bible.
External M'Cheyne links:
- The calendar on a single web page giving the daily readings, and M'Cheyne's own introduction to them.
- Lots of M'Cheyne resources and information about the calendar etc.
Don Carson has tidied up the original scheme a little by changing the reading boundaries in four places and published it in two volumes called For the Love of God, along with his excellent daily commentary on the readings. (Also available from Amazon, of course.)
Carson suggests that the reader proceeds at half the rate of the M'Cheyne version: he takes just two of the four M'Cheyne readings each day, which is somewhat more manageable. So it takes the reader through the New Testament and Psalms every year, and the Old Testament every two years. I am following this scheme.
M'Cheyne scripts. I have created some scripts for generating web pages with the day's readings embedded in them. They can be viewed and downloaded from my M'Cheyne Scripts page. You can use these to include the readings on your own webpages.