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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 or subscribe to the M'Cheyne daily bible reading RSS feed.
Robert Murray M'Cheyne (also known as McCheyne) 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:
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 meditations 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. If you are interested in using the M'Cheyne daily readings in your web pages have a look at the M'Cheyne scripts page which describes the technical architecture and the using the M'Cheyne server page which gives instructions on how to use it.
M'Cheyne printables. Sometimes it's just more convenient to have a hard-copy of the readings to tuck away inside your Bible without having to mess about with all this technology. For this reason I've produced some printable versions of the calendar that squeeze the whole year's readings onto one or two sheets of paper.