Through the Bible in 24 Months
A two-year reading and teaching program — 104 weeks · the entire Bible
Most Christians intend to read the whole Bible. Fewer finish. The usual place it falls apart is somewhere in Leviticus, in February, when the reading has become a chore and nobody has asked about it in three weeks. This program is built to solve that. It carries a congregation through the entire Bible in 104 weeks, and it does not leave anyone reading alone.
Each week the student reads four passages, one from each of four tracks that run in parallel from the first week to the last: a General Old Testament reading that moves in order from Genesis to Malachi, a short Wisdom Literature reading from Proverbs, the Psalms, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Solomon, a Gospels reading working straight through Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, and a General New Testament reading running from Acts through the letters to Revelation. Reading them side by side is the point. A week in Leviticus is easier to finish when it arrives with a psalm and an hour with Jesus, and the tracks illuminate each other in ways a straight-through reading never does.
The program assumes a congregation with two teaching times each week, most commonly a Sunday morning class and a midweek evening study. The teacher takes up one of the four readings in each session. The other two readings are not abandoned: each one carries five questions under the heading “Extended Class Discussion or Self-Study,” with space to write, and the Teacher’s Guide contains notes on every one of them. It works just as well for a single weekly class, for a family around a table, or for one person reading at the kitchen counter at six in the morning.
Teachers: every week has a matching Teacher’s Guide with a teaching aim, a suggested plan for both sessions, passage overviews, background and context, notes on each discussion question, answers for each of the extended questions, and a “Handle With Care” block naming the doctrinal and pastoral pressure points in that passage.
Start Here
The Program Guide explains how to run the program, how to choose which two readings to teach, what to do when someone falls behind, and the convictions behind the questions. It also contains a fill-in start-date worksheet and the complete 104-week reading chart. The weekly guides are undated, so a congregation may begin on any week of any year.
- Guide Program Guide · how to use the program, start-date worksheet, and the full 104-week reading chart Download PDF
The Eight Quarters
The 104 weeks divide evenly into eight quarters of thirteen weeks. Each quarter is a natural place to print a batch of handouts, to hand off to a different teacher, or simply to stop and take stock. Click a quarter to open it.
Quarter One Weeks 1–13 13 weeks · 26 guides
- Week 1 Beginnings Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 2 Called Out Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 3 Trust Under Test Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 4 Guard Your Heart Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 5 Whom We Answer To Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 6 Hearing and Doing Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 7 Power to Forgive Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 8 Called and Sent Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 9 The Line God Draws Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 10 Burdens and Rest Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 11 A Place to Dwell Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 12 Willing Hearts Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 13 The Cost of Drawing Near Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
Quarter Two Weeks 14–26 13 weeks · 26 guides
- Week 14 Authorized Worship Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 15 Made Clean Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 16 Hear Him Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 17 Counted and Carried Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 18 Costly Surrender Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 19 Grumbling and Greatness Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 20 By What Authority Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 21 Called and Chosen Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 22 Rendering What Is Due Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 23 They Say and Do Not Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 24 What Will Not Pass Away Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 25 Ready and Faithful Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 26 Choose Life Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
Quarter Three Weeks 27–39 13 weeks · 26 guides
- Week 27 Words and Works Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 28 Whose Counsel Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 29 A Place of Refuge Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 30 What We Could Not Do Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 31 Sons and Heirs Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 32 Mercy for Outsiders Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 33 You Are My Lord Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 34 To Obey Is Better Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 35 Known by Name Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 36 Some Trust in Chariots Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 37 The House God Builds Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 38 What Defiles a Man Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 39 Bought With a Price Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
Quarter Four Weeks 40–52 13 weeks · 26 guides
- Week 40 An Understanding Heart Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 41 What You Will Not Give Up Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 42 Worship on Whose Terms Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 43 The Lord, He Is God Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 44 Open His Eyes Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 45 When the Walls Fall Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 46 Numbered Days Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 47 A Paper Trail of Grace Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 48 The Veil Torn Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 49 A Kingdom Without End Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 50 Building for Another Generation Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 51 Gold and a Manger Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 52 Hearts Laid Bare Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
Quarter Five Weeks 53–65 13 weeks · 26 guides
- Week 53 Tested and Proved Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 54 It Is Written Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 55 Who Belongs to God Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 56 Building and Freedom Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 57 Hearing and Building Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 58 The Unseen Hand Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 59 Words That Build Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 60 My Redeemer Lives Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 61 Counting the Cost Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 62 The Lower Place Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 63 Seeing God Himself Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 64 Inside the Cup Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 65 The Right Fear Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
Quarter Six Weeks 66–78 13 weeks · 26 guides
- Week 66 One More Year Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 67 Death Swallowed Up Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 68 Listen and Return Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 69 Trust and Treasure Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 70 Comfort My People Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 71 The God Who Carries Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 72 Ransom and Riches Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 73 The Lord Reigns Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 74 Preach the Word Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 75 The House and the Heart Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 76 Mercy at the Table Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 77 Hearts Under Pressure Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 78 The Word Like Fire Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
Quarter Seven Weeks 79–91 13 weeks · 26 guides
- Week 79 A New Covenant Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 80 The Word Endures Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 81 Hearing and Refusing Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 82 Seeing the Unseen King Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 83 A Kingdom Unshaken Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 84 Mercy in the Ashes Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 85 The Weight of a Word Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 86 When Glory Departs Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 87 Nothing to Bring Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 88 Each Gives Account Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 89 Who Will Stand Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 90 What Will Not Burn Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 91 Continue in My Word Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
Quarter Eight Weeks 92–104 13 weeks · 26 guides
- Week 92 Hearts of Flesh Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 93 Known and Kept Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 94 Cut Without Hands Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 95 But If Not Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 96 Everlasting Dominion Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 97 Redeeming Love Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 98 Return to Me Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 99 Fruit That Remains Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 100 The Lamb Overcomes Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 101 What the Lord Requires Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 102 Consider Your Ways Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 103 While It Was Yet Dark Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
- Week 104 Follow Thou Me Student Guide Teacher’s Guide
All materials are provided free of charge for classes and personal study. See How to Use These Studies for more.