#1: Welcome to The Essential 100 Challenge!
Welcome! You’re about to begin an exciting adventure—taking The Essential 100 Challenge. These 100 passages, listed on The Planner in your kit, were carefully chosen to give you the “big picture” of...
View Article#2: Beginning with The Basics
As you read through the passages of The Essential 100 Challenge, we hope you’ll discover the many benefits of regular Bible reading and prayer. Last week we promised some tips and principles to help...
View Article#3: Keep Your “Eyes on the Prize”
You’ve probably already discovered that reading through these 100 passages won’t always be easy. It will take some discipline. There’ll be days when you’ll be tempted to see it as just one more...
View Article#4: Don’t Give in to Guilt!
By now you’ve probably discovered why we call this The Essential 100 Challenge! You really want to have a regular appointment with God in the Bible and prayer. But there are so many distractions, so...
View Article#7: Just be Quiet and Listen!
Good friends and marriage partners both know it. Listening is essential to a close, healthy relationship. The same is true in developing a deep relationship with God. Prayer is a two way communication....
View Article#5: Variety is the Spice!
We’ve all experienced it. Good things can become routine over time, even your daily meeting with God in his Word. If that happens, just remember that those feelings are normal. No one sees spiritual...
View Article#8: Practice “Relational Bible Reading”
Why do you read the Bible? To gain greater knowledge about God? For practical help with the pressures of life? To grow spiritually? Those are probably just some of the reasons people read the Bible and...
View Article#6: Give Your Distractions to God
It’s a noisy world out there! Try as you might to stay focused on meeting with God each day, you’ll still face plenty of unwelcome distractions: unexpected phone calls, children who need your...
View Article#9: Pray for the Passion!
Perhaps you know someone in your family or church who has maintained the habit of daily Bible reading consistently for many years. They never seem to get tired of it. They look forward to it day after...
View Article#10: Congratulations! You’re Half-Way There!
If you’ve been reading as we suggested the first week—five passages each week for 20 weeks—you’re already half-way through “The Challenge”. You’ve completed the first 50 passages, covering the Old...
View Article#11: A Proven Bible Reading Method
Millions of people start each day reading a passage from the Bible and praying. They may speak in different languages and live in widely separated countries, but, in addition to a common desire to meet...
View Article#12: Taking the Next Step: Read It!
Last week, we began looking at the Scripture Union Bible Reading Method, five simple steps to enable you to get the most out of your time in God’s Word. The first step we discussed was to pray as you...
View Article#13: Let’s Reflect On That!
We’ve discussed the first two steps in the Scripture Union Bible Reading Method (Pray and Read) so now it’s time to get to #3: Reflect. As you can imagine, reflecting or meditating on the passage is a...
View Article#14: Apply It-Make A Difference!
The fourth step in Scripture Union’s 5 Step Bible Reading Method is also perhaps the most personally challenging: “Apply”. You’ll apply to your life what you’ve learned from God’s Word.Reading the...
View Article#15: End As You Began
We’ve come now to the 5th and final step in Scripture Union’s Bible Reading Method: Pray. But didn’t we just do that at the beginning? Why are we doing it again?It’s not always easy to apply God’s Word...
View Article#17: Plan For Success!
In any important endeavor, it’s important to plan—and to plan to succeed. Once you’ve set your goals for continuing your daily Bible reading after The Challenge, it’s time to make your plan to achieve...
View Article#16: What’s Your Next Goal?
In just a few weeks, you’ll have successfully completed The Essential 100 Challenge. You’ll have discovered the many rewards of meeting God every day in the Bible and prayer. So then what?When you’ve...
View Article#18: Practice! Practice! Practice!
There’s an old joke about a tourist in New York City who asked a cab driver how to get to Carnegie Hall. The cab driver replied, “Practice! Practice! Practice!” And in fact, the key to successfully...
View Article#19: Keep Going by Keeping Connected.
We’ve talked about the obstacles and problems you’ll face in keeping your daily appointment with God in his Word. And we’ve offered advice on how to overcome them. Here’s one more piece of advice...
View Article#20: Congratulations! You Did It!
Congratulations! You’ve read all 100 Bible passages. You’ve successfully completed The Essential 100 Challenge! You’ve gotten the “Big Picture” of the Bible. And, best of all, you’ve begun the life...
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