EAT THIS BOOK

The Eat This Book Challenge
By reading the Bible every day, our hope is that we’ll become a people who are shaped by the Scriptures – people who are marked by love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.

Eat This Book-It!
Inspired by the BOOK IT! reading program, we’re challenging Blackhawkers to read through the Prophets this summer (that’s all 17 books from Isaiah through Malachi). Download the reading chart here (coming soon), color it in as you go and return the completed chart to Blackhawk by August 5 to get a certificate redeemable for a free slice of Ian’s pizza (yum!).

The Reading Plan

• We’ve made a customized one year Bible reading plan which includes a daily Psalm. For some of you, just doing a daily Psalm could be the perfect way to start opening the Bible every day.
• Reading Plan for kids: While it might be unrealistic for elementary-aged kids to read chapters of the Old Testament daily, each month we will be offering a kids’ version of the Reading Plan. We encourage you to help your child be part of the church wide challenge to Eat this Book. Find this month’s reading plan here.
• We’ve partnered with an organization called YouVersion. It’s the most widely used Web Bible on the internet, and they’ve made our plan available.
  • Need help signing up after January 1? Use our step-by-step instructions to get caught up with the plan on your computer or smartphone.

The Toolbox

• Sunday Messages: View the 2012 message schedule here.
  
• Weekly Guides: Download the current Eat This Book weekly Bible guide here. You can access other guides here.
• The Bible in Five: Watch a five minute video on how to read every book of the Bible. For this week’s video go to the message page. Archives of past videos are available on Vimeo here.
• Life Groups: Don’t go it alone! Discuss what you’ve read with others and let Scripture begin to shape you. Find information about Life Groups here.
• What’s Up With That? blog: Post a question, or see where others have asked “What’s up with that?” in their daily readings.
• Recommended Books:
  • Study Bibles: ESV Study Bible or NIV Study Bible
  • John Walton, The Essential Bible Companion – Contains a two-page overview of every book of the Bible.
  • John Sailhamer, The NIV Compact Bible Commentary – An inexpensive, one-volume commentary on the entire Bible. Very helpful!

Questions about the challenge. Email Eat This Book.