"This book is for Christians who want to read the Bible, who want to read all the Bible. ... This is a book to encourage that end.  Devotional guides tend to offer short, personal readings from the Bible, sometimes only a verse or two, followed by several paragraphs of edifying exposition.  Doubtless they provide personal help for believers with private needs and fears and hopes.  But they do not provide the 'framework' of what the Bible says--the 'plotline' or 'story line'--the big picture that makes sense of all the little bits of the Bible. ... Here you will find a plan that will help you read through the New Testament and Psalms twice, and the rest of the Bible once, in the course of a year. ... The reading scheme laid hout here is a slight modification of one first developed a century and a half ago by a Scottish minister, Robert Murray M'Cheyne. ... One page of this book is devoted to each day. At the tope of the page is the date, followed by the refrences to the [daily Bible] readings.  ... In no way to these pages pretend to be a commentary as that word is commonly understood.  My aim is much more modest: to provide edifying comments and reflections on some part of the designated texts, and thus to encourage readers to reflect further on the biblical passages they are reading.  If there is something unusual about these comments, it is that I have tried to devote at least some of them to helping the reader keep the ibg picture of the Bible's 'story line' in mind, and to see what relevance this has for our thining and living. In other words, although I want the comments to be edifying, this edification is not always of a private, individualized sort.  My aim is to show, in however preliminary a way, that reading the whole Bible must stir up throughtful Christians to thinking theologically and holistically, as well as reverently and humbly. ... If you must skip something, skip this book; read the Bible instead."