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Bible Reading Plan Tracker and Audio

January 27th, 2008

The Bible reading plan tracker is finished. You may create a free account to keep visual track of your progress through the Bible.
I have a hard time completing a “read the Bible in a year” plan, but it may help some to go at your own pace more or less. Especially when you see how many short books there are that are less than or around 20 minutes. Once you get those done, you will have momentum and encouragement to keep going. Lord Willing.

Titles of Chapters for Calvin’s Institutes all added.

January 9th, 2008

All of the titles for the chapters in Calvin’s Institutes have been added. They are embeded in the mp3 and a php script reads them. Now you can go and see what all the chapters are for books 3 and 4.

Sermon and Bible Reading Tracker

January 6th, 2008

Here is a sermon I preached December 30, 2007 at the Reformed Presbyterian Church in Fulton, NY. It is titled “Get in the Word.”

In it I mention Bible reading plans, of which I created my own Bible reading tracker program. Here is a public example of the software
Feel free to play with it. I think I may make it publicly available on this site for people to create their own accounts and track their Bible reading progress.

INSTRUCTIONS

If you click on the Bible book name it will start playing the file in your media player.

When you have listened to however many chapters, click in the block that says 0/50 and type how many chapters you have read and hit enter.
The number will update and the green bar will advance. You can also set it back to zero by typing zero, or any other number.

This way you can see a visual progress of your Bible reading. One thing that helped me is to see how many short books that are less than 30 minutes there are and to tackle them first. I think I will break the big ones into 10 chapter chunks, and listen to 10 at a time.

I have never successfully gotten through a “Read the Bible in a Year” program. I want to make it easier for me to do so and so I made this software. It is very simple php and mySQL baked into the html page, with a little ajax to make it look seemless. The progress bars are just div elements displayed inline with a background color and contain a single period colored the same color as the background. They are generated by a php script with one div for each chapter.

If anyone would like to have the code behind it just ask.

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