Jack VanDouser

  I can remember a few years back the first time someone told me about “The Shred”. Reading the entire Bible in 30 days. My first reaction was the same as everyone else’s, “That’s crazy! and “That’s something I could never do.” At the time I had already found a consistent flow to my personal time with the Lord. Read a little, usually a chapter or two a day, then write out a page in my notebook of takeaways. In doing this I had read through the Bible a few times over the years. It was kinda intentional, but never a “read the bible in a year” plan. That intentionality didn’t happen until 2023. For Christmas that year I received the ESV Illuminated Scripture set and I determined to read through the entire Bible in one years time. So the next year that is what I did…and actually, I read it in 9 months. This was a huge accomplishment and at the end, the challenge of “The Shred” remained in the back of my mind.  During this time I was truly starting to see the lack of Biblical...