The 19th Century Scottish minister, Robert Murray M’Cheyne, (sometimes spelled McCheyne) who lived from 1813-1843, prepared a plan for Bible reading to take readers through the New Testament and Psalms twice a year, and through the rest of the Bible once each year. There are approximately 4 chapters per day in this plan.
Originally MCheyne listed two columns labeled “Family” and two labeled “Secret”. He intended that the Scripture listings in the “Family” columns be read in family devotions, and those in “Secret” columns be read privately, in personal devotions. Here is a link to that document. Here is a condensed one-page sheet showing only the four daily readings.
You can find the plan in this Apple App. Works on Mac, iPhone, and iPad.
You can find the Android App here.
You can find the plan within the YouVersion Bible App here.
You can also get daily emails with the readings by signing up here.
Don Carson’s comments and resources:
- Check out this excellent article by Carson about the reading plan and the books he has written to accompany them.
- Don Carson slightly modified this reading plan and published it in two volumes, along with his comments regarding each day’s scriptural passages. You can obtain them here:
- Carson also adapted the plan to run for two years for smaller readings each day (find it here).
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