What's Going On Here?

There are SO MANY wonderful book review blogs out there and I can't compete with them, that is for sure. So this is not a book review blog. This is just a way for me to organize what I have read so that I can be better at matching the right book to the right person. The blog title comes from the brilliant mind of the most talented woman who ever lived, Ms. Judy Garland. The full quote is, "Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of someone else." That is what I hope to do here and in ever aspect of my life.

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Reading through the Bible

I mentioned that I was attempting to read through the Bible this year and so far, I am on track. Of course, it is only the tenth day of January! Today I finished half of Genesis. Man I had forgotten how truly weird the stories in Genesis are. God in the OT sure is different from God in the NT. Now I know that isn't really true. God is the same and stays the same. What I really mean is those who wrote the OT and the folks who wrote the NT had totally different reasons for writing. They were totally different types of writers, types of people. For me, reading the Bible isn't something that I can do without looking at a bunch of commentaries and spending time in prayer after I read the text for the day so it takes a long time. Time well spent! I'm just saying it takes me a long time!
Then there are the parts of the OT that I just skim, skim and skim! Like those long genealogies! I am sure there are folks who get into them but not me. I can see why the Bible in a Year guides mix the OT and NT. If I just had to read all OT for a bunch of days in a row, I know I would have given up by now!
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