In a post about acquiring theological knowledge, I suggested using Bible reading plans as a way to keep on track with personal Bible reading. I still think that Justin Taylor does a good job of organizing the best reading lists in one place. Here are his 2012 suggestions.

As for my personal recommendation, I would suggest any reading plan that gets you in both the Old and New Testament each day and, preferably, more than one genre of biblical literature each day (poetry and prose, prophetic and epistolary, etc.).

For this reason I favor the reading plan by pastor Robert Murray M’Cheyne which was originally penned in 1842 about three months before his death. You can find the plan here, and you can also buy a handy bookmark-sized copy through Monergism Books. D. A. Carson has published a devotional guide using the reading plan (see For the Love of God, vol. 1, vol. 2), but I don’t quite see the point when the main focus is spending time in God’s Word.

Though not for the faint-of-heart, I began Grant Horner’s plan as a means of mixing things up. Grant is a professor of humanities at The Master’s College. The reading plan has become so popular, it has given birth to its own Facebook page (not sure what to think of this).

Ligonier has just made available, for free viewing, Sproul’s lectures on the basics of Reformed theology. In 1997, these talks were published in a book, What is Reformed Theology? I believe that this book, along with William Edgar’s, Truth in All Its Glory, are the two best introductions to Reformed theology in print.

So, I am very pleased that these lectures by Sproul that are the basis for the book are available for free. You can view the introductory lecture here.