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It's a book awash in blood, teeming with psychosexual drama and rife with supernatural occurrences, yet the Bible is seldom read like a novel, beginning to end. Cherry Creek Presbyterian Church is trying this more book-clubbish approach to scripture, with more than 600 people on the same page. They read 12 pages a day for 90 days. "Most Christians get a little Bible here and there. Most have never read it cover to cover," says Cherry Creek pastor Don Sweeting. "Many don't think they co

Here’s an idea for your 2009 New Year’s resolution! Our two local libraries will be hosting a class called “The Bible in 90 Days” and in so doing have thrown down the gauntlet!

The Bible in 90 Days, a program that is usually aimed at individual Christians but which became a community effort last year in Waterville, is being offered this year in another Toledo suburb, Maumee.

Got Scripture? John Knollman, a Waterville hardware store owner, thinks everyone shoud, and several Maumee church leaders agree. They've teamed together to launch a program in Maumee to read the entire Bible, cover to cover, in 90 days beginning in January.

Trey Little would love it if everyone in Albany took him up on a small challenge. Read the Bible cover-to-cover in 90 days. Albany, with about 1,900 people, and Waterville, Ohio, both launched initiatives in the new year to encourage everyone in those two towns to read from Genesis to Revelation in three months. Waterville has around 5,000 residents. It's a task that Little and Ted Cooper of Houston, creator of "The Bible in 90 Days," maintain isn't as daunting as it sounds.

Giving somebody a Bible is one thing; getting them to read it is quite another, according to John Knollman of Waterville. "We had talked about giving Bibles to the community before, but I could give someone 10 Bibles and if they don't open them up, the Bibles don't do any good," he said. Mr. Knollman and his wife, Marcia, owners of Waterville Hardware and Paint, decided to organize a community-wide effort to get people in Waterville to read the entire Bible in three months, beginning in

For some consumers, fashion isn't an issue, but time is. At Zondervan, Caminiti says he wants to promote unique ways of engaging the Bible. Zondervan's The Bible in 90 Days (2005), which divides the text into 12-page-a-day chunks, was different enough to get people's attention: "We had lots of media coverage and bloggers all over the world talking about their experience."

By Carla Hinton, Religion Editor Edmond - Among Christians, a popular New Year's resolution is the lofty goal of reading the entire Bible in a year. An Edmond congregation hopes to complete the task in three months... Says Rev. Joel Baker, "Lots of us study parts of Scripture, but we never take the time to read the Bible in a conconcentrated effort... if you get a bunch of people together and cheer each other on, it works." Re

“Cover the Bible in 90 Days.” It’s not just the title. It’s the goal of a class held Sundays at Grace Presbyterian Church, 518 Roselawn Blvd., through November. Ted Cooper founded the “Cover 2 Cover: The Bible in 90 Days” program that serves as the basis for this class. Cooper, who lives in Houston, spoke at Grace Presbyterian on Sept. 10 as a precursor to the class.

The Bible: best-seller, yes; page turner, no. The Good Book can be intimidating, confusing and thick. It makes War and Peace look like a Vanity Fair fashion spread. Most people own a Bible but few have read it, frightened away by a hail of candlestick measurements, characters with names like Elzaphan and the word "begat." Most Christians would say that one should not edit the nearly 800,000 words of God. But some think it's OK to speed it up.

"For the person who wants their speediness to be at a relaxed pace, The Bible in 90 Days might be a good choice. With an interactive website and cross-country encouragement, it is both a Bible and a curriculum (www.Biblein90Days.com site run by Zondervan) developed and field-tested by Ted Cooper, a Houston businessman." Six years ago, Cooper and his wife were professed agnostics. They started attending church for their children, and Cooper began to be skeptical of his own agnosticism as he re

In January 2001, ninety-one intrepid church-goers filled a room to hear a first-time Bible “teacher” discuss the notion of reading the Bible in 90 days. The venue was First Houston, and the course was called Cover 2 Cover: The Bible in 90 Days. Over the span of 14 weeks, not only did the majority of this group stick with the class, but — much more importantly — they read the entire Bible from cover to cover.

Want to read the Bible in 24 hours? One author says it's highly possible By JEFF BRUMLEY, The Times-Union Jacksonville resident Jack Leon said he's determined to read the entire Bible - cover-to-cover, Genesis to Revelation - in 2006. "I just want to know everything in the Bible," the 17-year-old Southsider said. "It will be a challenge." A challenge, Leon said, because he starts college in the fall and will have plenty of other homework and reading to do. And because the Bible can ...

Biblical speed read If you think you might make a New Year's resolution to read the Bible straight through in 2006, consider asking Santa for The Bible in 90 Days (Zondervan, $19.99). The concept is the brainchild of Ted Cooper Jr., a self-described agnostic who nonetheless wanted to read the great religious book straight through at least once and in less than a year. Applying simple math to a Bible with limited notes, he realized that if he read just 12 pages a day he could finish in ...

Texas Episcopalian December 2005 Houston church offers course to read the Bible in 180 days St. John the Divine, Houston, began an extraordinary journey in mid-November - reading through the entire Bible in just 180 days. St. John's is serving as a launch leader for the unique program, developed in 2001 by Ted Cooper, Jr., a layperson in Houston. St. John's is the first church in the country to host the new version of Cooper's program. Classes feature small group discussion, a weekly ...

Bible to Go By DAVID GIBSON November 18, 2005; Page W13 A new line of downsized, user-friendly Scriptures is now hitting the bookstores and, inevitably, producing cheeky headlines: "Bible in a Blink," "Good Book Lite" and "To Come: 10-Minute Messiah?" The cause of the commotion is "The 100-Minute Bible," a pamphlet version of Holy Writ that was released in Britain a few weeks ago. It slashes the usual 780,000 words of God down to about 20,000, printed on fewer than 60 pages, each designed to ...

High-speed Bible study aims to improve insight By HELEN T. GRAY Knight Ridder News SERVICE (Posted on Sat, Nov. 12, 2005 ) KANSAS CITY, Mo. - William Proctor painstakingly has taken students through Bible studies, slowly, carefully, only to find that by the end of the study most have forgotten a lot of what they learned in the beginning. Besides that, they didn't have a good grasp of the book as a whole. Proctor has decided that slow is not the best way to go through the Bible from ...

Local parishioners revisit Bible in 180-day program By: CYNTHIA LESCALLEET Tuesday, November 8, 2005 3:14 PM CST Six years ago, Ted Cooper was a self-professed skeptic and agnostic "with an itch to read the Bible." Once he started reading, Cooper not only finished it but read it cover to cover a second time. And then a third. Changed forever by his experience and with his "philosophical setting retooled," the newly faithful Cooper developed a program for churches to help their ...

November 6, 2005 The Bible, Chapter and Every Other Verse By EDWARD WYATT HOW many ages and generations have brooded and wept and agonized over this book!," Walt Whitman wrote, enraptured by the "divine and primal poetic structure" of the Bible. Weep he might have, had he come across "The 100-Minute Bible," which boils down that primal poetic structure to 50 prosaic pages intended to be read in two minutes apiece. Consider its rendering of one of the most poignant verses of the New ...

The Bible in a blink New editions encourage readers to save time by skimming and skipping. By Ron Orozco / The Fresno Bee (Published 11/05/05) For years, Bibles have been published in all shapes and sizes. Some are small enough to stuff in your pocket; others have pink, orange or lime covers to match your outfits. Just recently, however, a whole new type of Bible has hit store shelves. While they may look like the traditional Holy Book, these Bibles are innovative in an entirely ...