Passages by Brian Hardin, LitFuse Blog Tour

Daily Bible Reading & Devotion!

From the back cover:

How a few minutes a day will change your whole life

Many of us would love to read the Bible more often, but we rarely make time for more than a few verses on the run.

But the Bible was never meant to be read in short segments here and there when you can fit it in. The Bible is meant to be experienced in sizeable chunks –in passages –and read daily. It is not a book of mystical incantations, but the story of God’s passionate love –for you. It is not a distant relic, but a best friend offering counsel and companionship –for today.

Through his own remarkable story, Brian Hardin shows you how reading through the Bible in a year changed his life and how it will change yours too. Passages goes beyond exploring how the Bible was meant to be read, providing three distinct Bible reading plans to help you get started doing it right now.

Hardin, whose daily podcast has more than a million listeners a month, guarantees you a life revolution, if you will on commit to a few minutes a day to read through the Bible in a year.

As you rediscover the joy of reading the Bible, visit www.dailyaudiobible.com and join a community of fellow readers to share your thoughts on your new adventure.

About Brian Hardin

He is a speaker, photographer, record producer, and an ordained minister. In 2006, he created the Daily Audio Bible, an online podcast that now delivers 1.5 million downloads a month. He is married to Christian musician Jill Parr.

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Throughout this book, throughout the story –his story –that he is relaying, Hardin includes comments made by others who have taken the challenge to read, and/or follow his podcast of reading  the Bible in a year. I appreciated these comments from others.

I also enjoyed the chapter on how the Bible is meant to be read (chapter 4). He gives scriptures that show how solitude is good for reflecting on God’s word: Mark 1:35; Luke 5:16. Hardin also relates lectio divina, or divine reading. This is broken down into read, meditate, speak and contemplate. As for his podcasts, he says, “Listening to the Bible being read aloud in a community offers us the opportunity to work through its application together (pg 124).” It’s like a Bible study.

Hardin gives some ‘guidelines’ to get started that I think really are worth writing down:

• Embrace the whole truth.
• Expect to be challenged.
• Persevere.
• Make the Bible plan A (not plan B).

At the end of the book he has included three different plans for reading through the Bible in a year:

1. The Daily Audio Bible Reading Plan {this correlates to his podcasts and there is an ebook called Passages that is essentially the Bible ordered to match}
2. The Chronological Bible in a Year {as events happened, read them in order –this is how I am choosing to read}
3. The Historical Bible in a Year {different than ‘chronological’, this way takes you through the books as they were inspired- at first it looks just like the order most Bibles are in but it isn’t exactly}

While the book itself didn’t really kindle any great revelation in me, I did enjoy reading through his experiences as well as those of others. It did make me get more serious about reading my Bible every day. I appreciate the guidelines he sets forth {mentioned in the bulleted list above} and persevere I think is the most important {as long as you’ve got the others already}.

On the website for The Daily Audio Bible, there are a lot of resources.

This book was published by Zondervan under the ISBN: 9780310329190 and sells for a retail of $14.99; it is a paperback edition with a few more than 417 pages.

You can read along with others on the blog tour by clicking this link.

***Disclaimer: I received this book free in exchange for participation in this blog tour and an honest review. No compensation was given. All opinions stated are my own. See Disclosure/Policies.***