Bible in 90 Days

The Challenge

noemail@biblein90days.org — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:00:00 GMT

Hey Everyone,

A while back I had posted about this Bible schedule that I used on my blog. Here is what I said:

"I have been using the 90 day Bible schedule for my bible reading. It is so much fun. I am on my second time of doing it.

I had first learned about it when my mom heard about it on Haven today and told me about it. I started it the next day wanting to learn more about my Savior. On Haven Today they have a blog that I used to say when I started and finished. The host of Haven Today was so impressed with me being 13 yr. old and finishing reading the Bible in only 88 days ( there are two grace days in case you fall behind) that he sent me the Bible that was made for the schedule ( the first time I had just used my own Bible which works just a well). While I was in PA he called and asked if I wanted to be interviewed. over the phone I thought about it and I had him send me the questions but I decided not be interviewed over the phone ( I am shy) but just to answer the questions by email and have him read it on the show. I am on one of the broadcasts along with some other people that have finished it. Here is the link that way you can hear it. www.haventoday.org and if you go there just click on archives and it is titled Summer in The Word (Part 2).

If you would like to read the Bible in 90 Days then just type in www.haventoday.org/schedule.pdf. I would love to hear that you are starting the schedule. May God bless you through this and have fun."

Eventually, one girl was reading about it on my blog and decided to start up a separate blog for this challenge. She asked teens to encourage each other to participate in this challenge: The 90 Bible Challenge. All together we got 25-30 teens to participate. It was one of the best experiences ever. You can check out the challenge here if you are interested..."The Challenge". It may even encourage you to start up one of your own.

Have a wonderful week!

12-May-08 7:00 AM

Why I use the 90 Day Bible Schedule

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:00:00 GMT

I remember one night I was so depressed and I felt like I was so far away from the Lord. I knew I hadn’t read my Bible in such a long time which was something that I was really having trouble with and every time I tried to read God’s Word I would get so distracted by something else in my mind. After many week of this it really made me so depressed about my relationship with the Lord. That night I was in my bed and I started to cry really badly and I knew the Lord really still loved me so I said a long prayer to Him telling Him how much I needed Him and how much I loved Him, and so on. One thing in particular I prayed for was that I would somehow be able to read His Word more faithfully and with a passion. That morning I felt refreshed and my mom told me about the 90 day bible challenge she had hear about on the radio that night. I went right away on the radio’s site and got a schedule for this Bible reading. That morning I started reading with this schedule. Ever since that day I have had a passion and a true love for reading God’s Word and now it means so much to me. I use this schedule over and over again and it really works for me. This is the best schedule I had ever used and I plan to never give it up!!

20-Mar-08 4:00 PM

1/10/2008 Pastor challenges community to read entire Bible

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:00:00 GMT

By Brian Bethel (Contact) Thursday, January 10, 2008 Photo by Ronald Erdrich Pastor Dennis Patience discusses a program called The Bible in 90 Days with a group at First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Albany on Monday, Jan. 7, 2008. Using a special Bible and study plan, the groups plans to read the entire Bible in three months. 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. Its a task that Little and Ted Cooper of Houston, creator of The Bible in 90 Days, maintain isnt as daunting as it sounds. Little approached the Albany Ministerial Alliance six months ago and said he was planning to challenge his congregation to complete the task. I thought it would be...

10-Jan-08 4:00 PM

Couple works to get Waterville residents to read entire Bible in 90 days

noemail@biblein90days.org — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 16:00:00 GMT

Marcia and John Knollman at Zion Lutheran Church in Waterville. They are organizing a community-wide effort to read the Bible, based on the Bible in 90 Days program. ( THE BLADE/LORI KING ) Zoom | Photo Reprints By DAVID YONKE BLADE RELIGION EDITOR 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 dont open them up, the Bibles dont 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 January. The project stems from a combination of the couples desire to spread the Gospel and Mr....

31-Dec-07 10:00 AM

Forgive me, Lord. I almost missed it

noemail@biblein90days.org — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 23:00:00 GMT

Forgive me, Lord. I almost missed it. A confession: I was almost so timid in my belief about what God can do among us that I didn’t share the vision I had for us to do The Bible in 90 Days. I prayed and thought. Thought and prayed. And God just wouldn’t drop it. So I called a few folks together in the dead heat of summer to help me discern whether they thought this idea was as crazy as I did. Or whether it was doable by God’s grace. They caught the vision and began organizing as I returned to my knees in prayer. The rest, as they say, is history. Though we launched the program at the worst possible time—July!—the anointing of God was apparent immediately. An avalanche of sign-ups came in week after week. Ultimately, God doubled me. I initially told the organizers I would be delighted if we had as many as 100 people covenant to read God’s word with us. Since we are giving Habitat for Humanity $90 for everyone who completes the program, that could have added up to $9,000. God had a...

19-Oct-07 6:00 PM

Presbyterian Bloggers: Friday Review

Tue, 08 May 2007 13:00:00 GMT

Friday, April 27, 2007

Friday Review. . . Bible in 90 Days

I first heard about Bible in 90 Days on a Ring member's blog. Quotidian Grace spoke very highly of it without offering much in the way of details. So, when it came up in my Adult Ed Committee, I was already interested.

Basically, Bible in 90 Days is a curriculum published by Zondervan that uses a specially published NIV Thinline, a Participant's Guide and some seriously good videos to get groups of people to read the Bible, cover-to-cover, in 90 days -- well, 88 actually.

Sound nuts? It works.

My church offered it starting in January. We had almost our entire average worship attendance sign up. We estimate the completion rate at around 80%. I kid you not.

Read full topic on blog:
http://pcusablog.blogspot.com/2007/04/friday-review-bible-in-90-days.html

8-May-07 8:00 AM

Not Your Mother's Bible

noemail@biblein90days.org — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 02:00:00 GMT

Not Your Mothers Bible by Cindy Crosby Publishers Weekley 10/30/2006 Its been burned in bonfires and dug up in peat bogs; posted online and read on cellphones. You can get it free on street corners, pilfer it from a hotel nightstand or buy it at auction for hundreds of thousands of dollars. And, yes, verses from it have helped sell everything from breath mints to wallpaper borders. Its the Bible, an ancient manuscript that keeps getting makeovers for new audiences. Bible sales represent a whopping market—estimated between $425 million (by Harper San Francisco) and $609 million (by Zondervan), with relatively stable sales. Paul Caminiti, v-p and publisher for Bibles at Zondervan—which accounts for one out of every two Bibles sold—notes, Although there was a significant spike in Bible sales following 9/11, the Bible market as a whole has remained relatively the same. Wrapping your arms around this market is like hugging an 800-pound gorilla—its huge, its...

8-Mar-07 9:00 PM

A Goal of Biblical Proportions

Thu, 11 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Church Program's Participants read Bible in 90 days

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."

Read complete article at www.newsok.com

10-Jan-07 6:00 PM

Article in the Lafayette Daily Advertiser

noemail@biblein90days.org — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 15:00:00 GMT

Cover the Bible in 90 days

“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.

Cooper was an agnostic who set a personal goal of reading the Bible, cover to cover, in 90 days. Halfway through, he committed his life to Christ. He later created “Cover 2 Cover” to help others share his experience.

“Cover the Bible in 90 Days” groups are scheduled to meet at 10 a.m. Sundays to review the previous week’s readings (about 12 pages a day), preview the coming week’s readings, participate in small group discussions and hear a video-taped lesson.

Registration is $20, which includes a Bible and all course materials.

Information: 984-6400, gracepreb@bellsouth.net

26-Oct-06 10:00 AM

Article in Colorado Springs Gazette

Tue, 12 Sep 2006 22:00:00 GMT

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12-Sep-06 5:00 PM

90 Days Well Spent

Wed, 31 May 2006 20:00:00 GMT

By Bret Hern Member, Church of the Ascension (Episcopal) May 31. 2006 Its been my experience -- because for a number of years, it really WAS my experience -- that mentioning the Bible in the context of a normal conversation produces reactions not unlike a colleague announcing his/her involvement with Amway during a status meeting. The ambient temperature rises by several degrees, the legal pads in front of everyone around the table suddenly contain vital information, and a dozen or so outgoing, effervescent folks can find nothing to say, torn between a good-hearted desire to be supportive and a reflexive you have got to be kidding me response. I know it well -- from the other end, as one of those folks who thinks to himself, Crap, and Joe seemed like such a normal guy. But Im going to risk tossing this particular conversational turd onto the table because for the last three months, Ive been involved in a very enjoyable reading experience that I want to share. Over the years, Ive...

31-May-06 3:00 PM

Article in Christianity Today

Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:00:00 GMT

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 read the Bible. "I thought if there is a God and I get started reading it, he's going to want me to finish it," he said.

(More...)

[This article compares The Bible in 90 Days with The HCSB Light Speed Bible and The 100-Minute Bible.]

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2006/111/13.0.html

13-Mar-06 3:00 PM

Article in New Covenant Connections

Tue, 10 Jan 2006 21:00:00 GMT

The Bible in 90 Days Goes National Launch Leaders Wanted 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. This month, after much sweat, support and guidance from First Houston and the Houston Presbyterian community, the course moves to a national audience. Rechristened as The Bible in 90 Days, the newest version is published by Zondervan, one of the worlds largest Bible publishers. The curriculum is now designed to be offered in large or small groups and facilitated by either lay leaders or pastoral staff. Response to The Bible in 90 Days outside the Presbyterian ranks already has been dramatic. Last spring, churches and small...

10-Jan-06 3:00 PM

Article in Jacksonville Times-Union

noemail@biblein90days.org — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 23:00:00 GMT

Want to read the Bible in 24 hours? One author says its highly possible By JEFF BRUMLEY, The Times-Union Jacksonville resident Jack Leon said hes 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 be difficult to read in places. Oh my gosh, Leon said as he recalled books like Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy that contain pages upon pages of laws, regulations and genealogies. Books that are flat-out boring, Leon called them. Leon isnt alone in that assessment. In fact pastors, Bible study teachers and a growing number of authors say that most people who try to read the entire Bible fail when they become mired in difficult passages. Throw in busy lives and its easy to see why reading from Adam to...

2-Jan-06 5:00 PM

Article in the Columbus Dispatch

noemail@biblein90days.org — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 23:00:00 GMT

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 90 days. Somewhere in the book of Isaiah, Cooper realized his reading was changing his life.

Zondervan has turned his concept into a slimmish, large-print NIV translation with each 12-page segment marked off.

Despite its 66 different books by more than 40 authors, the Bible really does hang together as one continuous story of the interface of God and man. Reading it rapidly makes that clear and brings to life its human stories of murder and charity, faith and faithlessness, betrayal, forgiveness and redemption.

Link to original

lreuter@dispatch.com

16-Dec-05 5:00 PM

Article in the Texas Episcopalian

Thu, 01 Dec 2005 23:00:00 GMT

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. Johns is serving as a launch leader for the unique program, developed in 2001 by Ted Cooper, Jr., a layperson in Houston. St. Johns is the first church in the country to host the new version of Coopers program. Classes feature small group discussion, a weekly lesson, specially developed resources to assist in the reading and a videotape series. Cover2Cover is open to any interested person and includes a Bible and teaching guide at no charge to all participants. Individually, a participant reads six pages a day in a Bible specially selected for its ease of reading. Resource materials aid in reading comprehension. Once a week participants gather to pray for one another, review readings from the previous week, preview the next weeks reading, participate in small...

1-Dec-05 5:00 PM

Bible in 90 Days Mention in the Wall Street Journal

Fri, 18 Nov 2005 23:00:00 GMT

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 be read in less than two minutes. It has already sold more than 40,000 copies in a nation where weekly worship rates are in the high single digits at best. For cultural curmudgeons who live for such omens of the apocalypse, this biblical bowdlerization has been, well, manna from heaven - confirmation of everything that they have long suspected about the cut-rate religiosity of the slacker generation. But of course it didnt start with the slackers. For hard-core critics, scriptural integrity has been...

18-Nov-05 5:00 PM

Article in Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Sun, 13 Nov 2005 05:00:00 GMT

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 didnt 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 cover to cover; speed-reading is better. He says he has developed a method that enables anyone with at least a seventh-grade reading ability to read the entire Bible in 24 hours or less, with good comprehension. His plan is included in the HCSB Light Speed Bible, released this month by Broadman & Holman ($14.97). Released in September were The Bible in 90 Days, published by Zondervan ($19.99), and The 100-Minute Bible, a condensed Bible, published by the 100-Minute Press in Canterbury, England. These...

12-Nov-05 11:00 PM

Article in River Oaks Examiner / West University Examiner

Wed, 09 Nov 2005 05:00:00 GMT

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 congregations read the Bible in 90 days. Called Cover2Cover, the nondenominational curriculum and related Bible debuted in October through Zondervan, a Christian communications company based in Grand Rapids, Mich. The Church of St. John the Divine, 2450 River Oaks Blvd., will offer a 180-day version of the program starting Nov. 13. The sessions will run 10-11 a.m. Sundays and repeat 6-7 p.m. Wednesdays. Attendance is open to the public, not just parishioners. Class facilitator and church member Les Clark said...

8-Nov-05 11:00 PM

Mention in the New York Times

Mon, 07 Nov 2005 04:00:00 GMT

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 Testament, John 11:35, the scene where Jesus travels to the home of Lazarus and is blamed by Lazaruss sister for not being there to save him from death. In the King James version and most other translations, the verse reads, Jesus wept. In The 100-Minute Bible, a passive voice describes Jesus as being deeply moved. And what to make of the SMS Bible, a text-messaging version by the Bible Society in Australia, which translates Genesis 1:1 thusly: In da Bginnin God cre8d da heavens & da earth? The new...

6-Nov-05 10:00 PM

Article in the Fresno Bee

Sun, 06 Nov 2005 05:00:00 GMT

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 different way. They are published with speed-reading in mind, and they are designed for people who want to delve into the Scriptures without committing to the year-long study that most Bible publishers recommend. Theres the The 100-Minute Bible (The 100-Minute Press), which soon will be available outside the United Kingdom at a yet-to-be determined price, and Light Speed Bible (Broadman & Holman, $19.97) that can be read in 24 hours. Or for those with a little more time, theres The Bible in 90 Days...

5-Nov-05 11:00 PM

Mention in the Boston Herald

Fri, 07 Oct 2005 03:00:00 GMT

Publishers see the light, put out quick-read Bibles By Jesse Noyes Thursday, October 6, 2005 It may have taken God six days to create the universe. But now readers can cruise from Genesis to Revelation in less than a day. The Light Speed Bible, a new copy of the holy writ released by Holman Bible Publishers, launched last week. It includes instruction on how to make it from cover to cover in as little as 16 to 18 hours. Light Speed is just one of several Bibles designed for quick reading. The 100-Minute Bible, an ultra-condensed scripture, is meant for those who have an interest in Christianity but not the time – nor tenacity – to read the whole Bible. Christian publisher Zondervan, which sells approximately four million Bibles every year, recently released both the 90 Day Bible and The Story, a Bible written in novel-style format. The Bible is kind of like getting into a nice cold lake, said Paul Caminiti, publisher for Bibles at Zondervan. There are two ways to...

6-Oct-05 10:00 PM