Cliff Barrows, longtime Music and Program Director for the Billy Graham Team, traveled with Mr. Graham throughout his ministry and led Crusade choirs around the world. Mr. Barrows explains how he has kept his relationship with Christ strong and growing.

The more we read the Bible, the more we want to know and understand it. At 86 years old, I long to know more of the Word. To develop that hunger, I major on reading and studying the Bible. There’s an illustration of a hand that shows how to grasp the Word of God—how to make it our greatest possession. Each finger is a concept: hearing the Bible, reading it, studying it, memorizing it and meditating on it. When we use all the fingers, we can grasp the Word of God.

The Bible is God’s Word, he said. It is infallible and trustworthy. [Dawson Troutman, who founded The Navigators] said if I would build my life on its principles, I would find the solid-rock foundation for my steps through life.

Read the Bible in a Year

We hope that you will join us in 2016 as we read through the Bible. This calendar features a reading plan that will take you through every book of the Bible in the order they are estimated to have been written. If you read each day’s suggested passage, you’ll finish by year’s end. Find past months plans here.

March 1 – Deuteronomy 8-10
March 2 – Deuteronomy 11-13
March 3 – Deuteronomy 14-16
March 4 – Deuteronomy 17-20
March 5 – Deuteronomy 21-23
March 6 – Deuteronomy 24-27
March 7 – Deuteronomy 28-29
March 8 – Deuteronomy 30-31
March 9 – Deuteronomy 32-34
March 10 – Joshua 1-4
March 11 – Joshua 5-8
March 12 – Joshua 9-11
March 13 – Joshua 12-15
March 14 – Joshua 16-18
March 15 – Joshua 19-21
March 16 – Joshua 22-24
March 17 – Judges 1-2
March 18 – Judges 3-5
March 19 – Judges 6-7
March 20 – Judges 8-9
March 21 – Judges 10-12
March 22 – Judges 13-15
March 23 – Judges 16-18
March 24 – Judges 19-21
March 25 – 1 Samuel 1-3
March 26 – 1 Samuel 4-8
March 27 – 1 Samuel 9-12
March 28 – 1 Samuel 13-14
March 29 – 1 Samuel 15-17
March 30 – 1 Samuel 18-20
March 31 – 1 Samuel 21-24