Read the Bible in 31 days!

Someone took the page numbers from the ESV Reference Bible and the time required from the Max McLean ESV audio Bible. You can modify these numbers for your favorite Bible translation.

* NT 18 hours (1,080 minutes)– ESV 279 pages
* OT 57 hours (3,420 minutes) – ESV 968 pages

To read through the entire Bible in a month with 31 days:
* Read 35 minutes or 9 pages of NT per day
* Read 111 minutes or 32 pages of OT per day
* So, by spending only 2 hours and 26 minutes per day, 41 pages, you can read through the entire ESV Bible in one month.

Isn't 2 hours and 26 minutes close to 10% of 24 hours? Wouldn't that be a daily tithe?

*Actual daily tithe would be 2 hours and 24 minutes.

Restoring Worship?

I really like this idea from David Plotz, in Blogging the Bible:

Chapter 7
7:22-23: The grimmest verse so far: "All in whose nostrils was the merest breath of life, all that was on dry land, died. All existence on earth was blotted out—man, cattle, creeping things, birds of the sky; they were blotted from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark."

What a chilling account of the flood, and of the loneliness of Noah. Even the good man, even the righteous man, is alone in the world, and always subject to God's awesome power. This is pretty raw. It also seems to me to offer at least a clue about why God destroyed the earth. It seems clear that the Pre-Deluge evils were not crimes of men against other men, but crimes of men against God. As men mastered agriculture and metalwork and built cities, which earlier verses suggest they did, they felt they didn't need God. They came to see their laws, achievements, and prosperity as their own, accomplished independently of God. So, perhaps the point of the flood was not to restore ordinary moral behavior—day-to-day decency, law, etc.—but to restore faith, or at least fear. We thought we didn't need God, and that was what angered Him. The Flood—this verse in particular—reminds us (or at least the one righteous man who is permitted to live) that we are never independent of God, but always floating alone, vulnerable, at His mercy.

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What do you think?

Super Sweet Time Lapse

http://vimeo.com/3156959

Thinking in Chinese

I used to wonder what it would be like to think in Chinese. Last night I put in a couple of earplugs so I could rest and started thinking in Chinese. It didn't require much effort, just happened. When I got to something that I couldn't say in Chinese, I would switch back to English, then I would have to "flip" that same simple switch to go back to Chinese. It was great!

I really feel like my pump has been primed. Now to really get this thing to full throttle. I need to put more Chinese in so I can get more Chinese out!

This simple, wonderful revelation came because I was having hypersensitive hearing from a bad seating location at lunch. Strange how these things work.

Praising God in all situations, hope you are too!