I've been listening to the Bible when I drive somewhere almost every day since the beginning of last year. I use Prof. Horner's plan, which divides it into ten lists, and provides a consecutive chapter to read or listen to for each lists. So, ten chapters a day at 1.25x (it sounds like a New York cadence) takes about 25-35 minutes. The YouVersion Bible app makes it automatic for me. The idea is that you get an intense survey of all the books. Here's a brief description of the plan: https://www.bible.com/reading-plans/19-professor-horners-bib...
It has gradually shaped my thinking in ways that is hard to describe. I've really began to understand just how much the Old and New Testaments tie together; many ideas and concepts are repeated several times in different books.
does the YouVersion app continue all 10 lists for the full length of the plan? Each list has a different number of chapters and I haven't done the math, but it looks like they aren't going to evenly line back up after 1 or two cycles. Looks like an interesting plan to me, but based on my YouVersion experience it seems like they are probably non-ideal. Obviously you like it, so I'm curious how it works.
Yes, that is the beauty of the plan. The shortest list is just the book of Acts (28 chapters), and the next shortest in the book of Proverbs (31 chapters). When a list ends, it starts over again. So over the course of the year, you'll go over those books ~12 times. The longest two lists are the Pentateuch books (200+ chapters) and the prophetic books (250 chapters). So on any given day, you are listening to various books that keep changing, and you get a mix that helps you form connections between the books.
I have just two minor quibbles with the YouVersion plan:
1. As the chapters are being read, each chapter is announced with just the number, not the book. So you have to guess the book from the context. This was confusing the first couple months, until I became familiar enough with them to be able to guess the book from the content and the context of the chapter.
2. The plan is meant to continue indefinitely, but the YouVersion plan must be restarted after the first cycle (250 days). It irks the perfectionist in me, but in practice it's no big deal.
It has gradually shaped my thinking in ways that is hard to describe. I've really began to understand just how much the Old and New Testaments tie together; many ideas and concepts are repeated several times in different books.