A Plan for this One Year Journey, Pt. 2

Throughout the Bible, God's people often followed a plan, or disegno in Italian, (as mentioned in Part 1), to accomplish something for His Kingdom. Whether a one-time project or a regular activity, it helps to know what has to be done and when, in order to accomplish your goal.

So here in Acts 20:7 we see the disciples coming together to break bread. And the Bible says that it was the first day (il giorno), of their week (la settimana). It sounds like they did this every week, and on the first day of every week.

Likewise, here on the Insights From the Italian Bible blog you'll find a special setup for a 52 week plan, that requires reading just 1 chapter a day, for just 5 days per week. Each day's reading should take about 15 or 20 minutes. This is how you'll be able to read the entire New Testament in one year. I think it's pretty amazing how reading the New Testament in a year fits into such a neat schedule. It's almost as if we were meant to read this way.

For example, here's the daily schedule for the first week of this journey:

Week 1 (For the week of Sunday, Jan 1, 2017) Day 1 (Mon 1/2/17):  Matthew 1 Day 2 (Tue 1/3/17):  Matthew 2 Day 3 (Wed 1/4/17):  Matthew 3 Day 4 (Thu 1/5/17):  Matthew 4 Day 5 (Fri 1/6/17):  Matthew 5

You can find this weekly reading plan on the blog's home page.

Now here's the part that makes this blog's reading plan fairly unique, (or at least more convenient).


Since this is about gaining insights from the Italian Bible, the suggested option is to do the daily readings in the Italian Bible. And since this is also about helping those of us who are still learning Italian to improve our Italian skills, it will be much more helpful to have the English translation of the Bible alongside the Italian translation.

The links provided for you to each daily reading, are already setup up to take you to  a parallel Bible view that shows both an Italian  translation of the Bible and an English one. I don't know of any other site or Bible app's reading plan that will jump you directly to a view like this. So if you think it will be helpful to read with both languages visible, use the links provided for you from this site.

Let's make the best of this journey through both the New Testament and the Italian Language. As we break, not natural bread but the Bread of Life, settimana by settimana, and giorno by giorno, (week by week and day by day).