Happy New Year 2013!

Happy New Year 2013!

Yes, I know that I haven't been written much blog posts this past year 2012. Yet, I can't promise for this year either. Yet, I do want to write more and to encourage you all in every way too.

Mainly, I do want to encourage you all to live your life for Christ this year all the more which is very important goal too.

Have you started your Daily Bible Reading Plan yet? If not, I would encourage you all to start this with the Lord's help. You can't do this without His help. There are many Daily Bible Reading plan out there. I have been doing this for numbers of years, but I am planning to start a whole different Bible plan for this year, so that I can focus more in His Word instead just reading through it. My plan is to focus on the book of Romans which is one of my favorite books in the Bible. Just a bite size, I just did Romans 1:1-7, this morning and will focus more through out the day and this week too. There isn't any set scripture reading schedule per day like regular Daily Bible Reading plan or checklist plan, but it is to fully focus on it as I move along in His Word.

Last year, 2012, with the Lord's help, I have read 49 books a year which is more than I expected to read. My goal is that I do hope to read at least 36 books this year (3 books a month) with His help. The truth is that I mostly read theological books. This past summer, I did read number of fictions, and that is why I had read 49 books this year. I am on Goodreads online too. I am a slow reader too, and I prefer to dig and dig as I read through theological books. If I am reading fiction, I will speed read through that book with enjoyment.

This past summer, a wonderful friend blessed me with Kindle Touch. I am so thankful for this and love it and taken it with me everywhere I go.  It is a great investment to have and a great gift to give someone that loves to read all the time. I was able to download a lot of wonderful free e-books and almost nothing to the cost to buy some great e-books. If you are on a limit budget to buy books, I would encourage you all to get an Kindle to read, and you will be amazed how much you can save by owning your very own Kindle.

There are number of Kindle that you can get. As for me, I love my Kindle Touch and wouldn't trade that in for Kindle Paperwhite, or Kindle Fire, or whatever Kindle out there. I didn't want another computer screen to read books from. I love e-ink on Kindle Touch which came out before Paperwhite did. Later, I did compared my Kindle Touch with  Kindle Paperwhite. I prefer e-ink over Paperwhite. You will have to pick out whatever that will works the best for you. Please do go to Staples or whatever store that does carry Kindle or Nooks or other e-book reader and compare them before you buy them online through Amazon or somewhere else.

Please do subscribe to get Gospel e-books email. You can find a lot of free e-books or almost no cost e-books through Gospel e-books. FYI, I  just gotten one free e-book that is Abortion: A Rational Look at An Emotional Issue by R.C. Sproul which is special today only.

Does your church have a church's library? If not, you can help them to get that started. Talk to your pastor about this. Yes, I started Christ Baptist Church's Library in the beginning of 2012 from no book to 35 books as of right now, and more books are on the way too. I can't wait to get them when they do come.  No Library budget! No problem! That is not problem, and don't worry about that! We didn't have any library budget either. How can I get the books without a budget? Here is a great news, you can start entering the books giveaway contest like I did, and that is how I keep winning them. Today, I just won another one. If you follow me on Twitter or on Facebook, you can keep up with me whatever books giveaway contest out there that I have enter and enter them. We can't win every one of them, but we can at least win some of them. I haven't yet win any Tim Challies' Free Friday yet, but one of these days when I will win them, and I will shout from the roof top when I do win them. Yes, there are a lot of books giveaway contest out there, but there are some which is no-no to enter to win them. You will have to judge whether to enter the contest or not.  Yes, I would encourage you all to start a church's library. FYI, I used Library Thing online for Church Library to keep record what books that we do have. It is free up to 200 books then one time lifetime fee which is like $25 for lifetime I think or that might have changed since then.

Here are the list of books that I had read last year, 2012:

1.       All of Grace by C. H. Spurgeon

2.       Taste and See by John Piper

3.       The Murder of Jesus

4.       Delivered by Desire by Daryl Wingerd

5.       Why God Gave Us a Book by Gene Edward Veith

6.       How to Study the Bible by John MacArthur

7.       Fifty Reasons Why Jesus Came to Die by John Piper

8.       Respectable Sins by Jerry Bridges

9.       Discussion Guide Respectable Sins by Stephen Sorenson

10.   God Has a Wonderful Plan for Your Life by Ray Comfort

11.   Tortured for Christ by Richard Wurmbrand

12.   Dug Down Deep by Joshua Harris

13.   Revolution in World Missions by K.P. Yohannan

14.   Get Wisdom 23 Lessons for Children about Living for Jesus by Ruth Younts

15.   The Visitation by Frank Peretti

16.   Poems by C.S. Lewis

17.   Monster by Frank Peretti

18.   Hangman's Curse (The Veritas Project) by Frank Peretti

19.   Nightmare Academy (The veritas Project) by Frank Peretti

20.   ProLife Answers to ProChoice Arguments by Rany Alcorn

21.   The Dwelling Place by Elizabeth Musser

22.   The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis

23.   The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis 24.   The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis 25.   Prince Caspian By C.S. Lewis 26.   The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis 27.   The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis 28.   The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis 29.   Lord Foulgrin’s Letters by Randy Alcorn 30.   Choosing Gratitude by Nancy Leigh DeMoss 31.   No Longer A Slumdog by K.P. Yohannan 32.   Weight of a Flame by Simonetta Carr 33.   What is a Healthy Church Member? By Thabiti M. Anyabwile 34.   Heaven by Randy Alcorn 35.   Modest by RW Glenn and Tim Challies (Cruciform) (e-book in my Kindle Touch)

36.   A GodWard Life by John Piper

37.   The Glory of Christ by John Owen 38.   What is the Gospel? By Bryan Chapell (TGC) 39.   The Apostle: The Life of Paul by John Pollock (e-book in my Kindle Touch) 40.   The Explicit Gospel by Matt Chandler 41.   How Then Should We Think by Julian M. Motley 42.   Grace Abounding by John Bunyan (e-book in my Kindle Touch) 43.   Awaiting Savior by Aaron Armstrong (e-book in my Kindle Touch) 44.   Gospel by J D Greear 45.   Cruciform: Living the Cross-Shaped Life by Jimmy Davis (e-book in my Kindle) 46.   Lies Women Believe by Nancy Leigh DeMoss  47.   Good News of Great Joy by John Piper (e-book in my Kindle Touch) 48.   The Christ of Christmas: Readings for Advent by Calvin Miller (e-book in my Kindle Touch) 49.   Innocent Blood by John Ensor (e-book in my Kindle Touch)

I do have a lot to learn and to do this year. I am looking forward for that in every way! Let us live our life for Christ all the more.

Hungry to eat His Word,
'Guerite ~ BoldLion

Have You Start Your Daily Bible Reading Yet?

Since today is the first day of the second month, it isn't too late to start your Daily Bible Reading. I would encourage you all to start this today if you haven't done so.

I am so thankful that I am doing this for the 4th years and love it. My first year was good, and the second year was so-so due to crazy not fix shift schedule. Last year was the best, and I added Advent Reading for the first time last year.

This year I am challenging to do more than last year since I am doing double Daily Bible Reading (one in the morning and one in the evening), and I love it so far in the first month and looking forward to continue through out the year. Later this year, I will be doing Advent Reading.

I am trying to find a great Lent scripture reading before Resurrection Sunday. Currently and for the time being, I am reading The Murder of Jesus by John MacArthur as an Lent reading. Please do click on Bible Reading Plan on this, and you will see a lot of different kind of Bible Reading Plan that you can do. I am sure there is one that might fit perfectly for you.

Hungry to eat His Word,
'Guerite ~ BoldLion

Bible Reading Plan 2012

I want to encourage you all to start your Bible Reading Plan for the year of 2012. I do thank the Lord for enabling me to be able to read His Word faithfully every day this year. This year, 2011 is the best year for me as I did this Bible Reading Plan in a different way. I am so thankful for a regular schedule instead of having a crazy shift schedule which is hard to keep up with. Now, I am looking forward to read the Whole Bible again for 2012 with His Help. I will do a little bit different this coming year but with the same kind of Bible Reading Plan. Also this year was my first year to do the Advent Reading, and I am so thankful that I did that.

There are a lot of different Bible Reading Plan (that is on my blogs that I did last year and before that) that you can do or make your own Bible Reading Plan.  It isn't too late to start this wonderful habit of reading His Word daily.

I will give you the list of others blogs about other Bible Reading Plans that you can try from. I don't have iPhone or smartphone to download them, but I will share those blog with you all too in case you do want to do that on your iPhone or smartphone. I am sure there are a lot more others blog or link that you can go to that I haven't listed below and my Bible Reading Plan post before this post.

I would love it see Bible Reading Plan available on Kindle. I am sure it will work. (I don't have Kindle yet but would love to have that in there.)

Pick a Plan, Any Plan

2012 Reading Plan

Bible Reading Plans for 2012

Not by Bread Alone: Let's Live on God's Word 2012

ESV Reading Plan Devotions

Bible Reading Plans for 2012 (Ligonier)

YouVersion (Smartphone)

Small Changes with Big Results Next Year  (Just read this one, No Bible Reading Plan on that.)

Update edit: Dave Jenkins: Bible Reading Plans

I do hope that you will start Bible Reading Plan for 2012. I would encourage you all to hang in there and keep at it. You can do it.

Hungry to eat His Word,
'Guerite ~ BoldLion

Advent Reading Plan!

I just want to let you all know that I had started Advent Reading for the first time in my life which I always wanted to do. Yes, it took a while for me to find a great Advent Reading Plan especially for me, adult and not for the kids since I don't have any children.

Before the beginning of Advent week, I had read Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus edited by Nancy Guthrie. It is a great Advent kind of book to read and preparing your heart for true meaning of  Christmas. I am still looking for another great book too. I know that I will want to read this wonderful book again for the next Advent in 2012. I would love to get Treasuring God in our Traditions by Noel Piper.

What Advent Reading Plan am I using? Well, I have been reading from Noel Piper's blog daily as she post Advent Reading Daily for us to read from the Bible. I am so thankful for that too. I also am using another one that I have found on Monergism website. Here is the link to 2010 Advent Reading. I haven't been able to find an updated one that is 2011, but that isn't the problem, I was able to change the date for this year on my print out.

I am so thankful for having this wonderful Advent Reading Plan to use this year for the first time. It does help me a lot to focus on the True meaning of Christmas.

I am still looking for something for all of us, adult and something for the kids as well. There are a lot of Advent Reading Plan out there, and I am kind of nippy picky about some of them. Some are not Christ-Center focus like it should be, or not Reformed like I wish it should be. Some were too Mickey kind of Advent Reading Plan which doesn't sound right. There are a lot of Catholic Advent Reading Plan out there, and I didn't want to use that. There are a lot of them for parent with children. Not many just for adult like us which is sad.

I also would love to add music too onto the Advent Reading Plan. To tell you the truth, I am not gifted in music at all. I know that I would add Hark! the Herald Angels Sing, O Come All Ye Faithful,  O Holy Night,  O Come O Come Emmanuel,  O Little Town of Bethlehem,  Come Thou Long Expected Jesus, Joy to the World, Silent Night and many more. I just need to find the link online to listen to them and sing with them.

Let all of us have Christ-Center focus for Christmas. Let us keep on pointing others to Christ all the more. Let us be like Linus Van-Pelt who can explain What Christmas is all about.

If you know a great Advent Reading Plan, or book(s), or music with link to listen to them online free with the wording that I can read, please do let me know about them.

Merry Christmas!

Hungry to eat His Word,
'Guerite ~ BoldLion

Been So Busy!

Sorry, I haven't written a post since January 6th. I have been so busy getting red tape things done that I need to have it done. They are no fun to do them. With the Lord helps, I was able to do most of them. I still have some more to do. Please do pray for me and for the wisdom that I need to have Also pray for Loan Modification too even though I am caught up paying my first mortgage. I still do need to lower down my house payment. I am still waiting for some paper work to come through which should be here this month before it is over. I also have been working at Odds and Ends job which is a true joy to do for the Lord.

Now, here I am. As of January 1st, I have been eating His Word by using Justin Nale's Bible Reading Plan. I am hanging in there and enjoying it. I am so thankful for this Daily Bible Reading Plan that is perfect for me. I haven't miss a day on this which is a praise. I normally wake up early in the morning and have this for my breakfast with my ear turned off but turn on my spiritual ear to hear Him speaking to me as I am eating His Word.

Have you started a Bible Reading Plan for yourself for this year? If not, it isn't too late to start this wonderful godly habit to have a Daily Bible Reading Plan. Not sure about what kind of Bible Reading Plan, click on that link, and it will take you to other kind of Bible Reading Plan.

I also have been reading John Piper's book on Finally Alive. I am so in love with this wonderful book. I am so thankful for this wonderful book that explain the difference between the worldly view of Born Again and the Biblical view of Born Again. I totally 100% agree with Biblical view of Born Again. I also now do understand why I have been so frustrated with people who claimed that they are born again. I tend to be Thomas the Doubted about that they are born again when their life doesn't reflect that. We all need to educated those who does claim to be born again what Biblical Born Again really do means.

As of last night, I have started reading The Mortification of Sin by John Owen. I know that I will be learning a lot from this wonderful book. (By the way, I haven't finish reading Finally Alive, but I will soon.) I am reading The Mortification of Sin by John Owen with Mount Hermon Missionary Baptist Church in Rocky Mount on Wednesday night. We share and answer questions what we are learning in this book. I am looking for the next Wednesday night that is February 16th with them again. (It isn't every Wednesday night for this study.) This is more like having Theological Studies again. I love to be in a group like this. I truly do miss having Tuesday Morning Theological Breakfast that my wonderful church family (Christ Baptist Church of Wilson) had.

Hungry to eat His Word,

'Guerite ~ BoldLion

1,169 Chapters!

What book would have 1,169 chapters? Please keep reading on below to find the answer to that question.

After eating His Word this morning, I did some math work how many chapters a day do we all need to be reading the Bible daily through out the whole year in order to read the whole Bible in one year without repeating the same book again.

I have added all the chapter of the Bible together, and there are 1,169 chapters. Whoa! That is a lot of chapters to read. But then I have divided that by 365 days which came to be roughly at 3.20 chapters a day to read. MMMM!!!! That doesn't seems to be that much to read a day. Also, I know that we can read that many chapters in a day. Am I right about that?

So, I do really want to encourage you all to read His Word daily. I know that you can do it.

By the way, I am currently reading 4 chapters day and plus another chapter from Psalms or Proverbs daily. That means that I will be reading Psalms, Proverbs and the New Testament twice a year. Currently, I am using Justin Nale's Bible Reading Plan. I also have written a post that I am going start using his Bible Reading Plan. I have already started this morning. It was so YUMMY!

There are so many different kind of Bible Reading Plans out there. Please do check them out. I also had posted many different kind of Bible Reading Plan on this blog too. You can go to labels "Bible Reading Plan" and click on that, and you will see all the posts I had written about "Bible Reading Plan".

We all do need to be reading His Word daily too.

Hungry to eat His Word,
'Guerite ~ BoldLion

Bible Reading Checklist

I had to share this blog with you about the Bible Reading Checklist post from my pastor, Justin Childers.

There are many way to read the Bible Through out the year daily. Please read my recent and old posts about Bible Reading Plan.

I really do want to encourage you all to read the Bible Daily through out the year. We all do need to be eating His Word daily.

Hungry to eat His Word,
'Guerite ~ BoldLion

“Read the Bible for Life” One-Year Chronological Plan

I saw this post “Read the Bible for Life” One-Year Chronological Plan on Kingdom People this morning and had to share this with you about this Bible Reading Plan for Life. It is in one year chronological plan.

We all do need to be eating His Word daily!

Please see my post that I did yesterday about Bible Reading Plan for 2011.

Hungry to eat His Word,
'Guerite ~ BoldLion

Bible Reading Plan for 2011

We all do need to have a Bible Reading Plan every year. I know that we all want to change and do differently each year. I too want to change my Bible Reading Plan too.

I did very well in 2009, but I didn't do well this year, 2010. Which is an big OUCH! I have been wanting to have a different Bible Reading Plan. I have been wanting to kick myself for not doing the job this year. On the other hand, I have been eating His Word just about daily that isn't part of the Daily Bible Reading Plan which is better than not eating His Word. So therefore, this year, 2010, I didn't read the whole Bible again like I did in 2009.

I am aware that not all Bible Reading Plan are tailor to fit for your style of reading. There are a lot of different kind of Bible Reading Plan out there for you to try.

This coming year, 2011, Lord willing, I will try Justin Nale's Bible Reading Plan. I do like this kind of Bible reading plan for not having to jump around but reading it straight through each books daily. I do hope and pray this will work great for me. With this reading plan, we will be reading through both Old Testament and New Testament monthly along with Psalms daily expect for the first month. The first month will be Proverbs. We will be reading through New Testament twice in a year.


I wrote a post last year about the Bible Read in 2010. You can see other kinds of Bible Reading Plan with its website link that I had posted on that.

We all do need to be hungry to eat His Word daily! I do want to encourage you all to have a Bible Reading Plan too!

Hungry to eat His Word,
'Guerite ~ BoldLion

HT: Justin Nale

Bible Read in 2010

This year, 2009 is my first year to read the whole Bible for the first time on my own! It is a true blessing to do that. I had been using The One Year Bible ESV. I can't wait to finish it tomorrow night (Dec 31st).

Lord willing in the 2010, I will be reading through NASB updated (can't find the '77 that isn't updated), but I couldn't find The One Year Bible NASB in hardback and brand new. So, someone gave me enough money for me to buy NASB that isn't a Study Bible. I will be reading this throughout the year with the One Year Plan bookmark for that.

I am aware of Discipleship Journal Bible Reading Plan, and I do think that is great. I rather read every day instead of skipping days.

I would encourage other to read the Bible throughout the year in

Discipleship Journal Bible Reading Plan

the One Year Bible Plan

ESV Bible Reading Plan.

Justin's blog

Randy's blog

Justin Taylor's blog and another one from Justin Taylor's blog .

We all need to be hungry to eat His Word daily.

Hungry to eat His Word,
'Guerite ~ BoldLion

HT: Justin Childers; Randy Alston; Justin Taylor