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WHAM and the M’Cheyne Bible Reading Programme

* It has been a very long time since I posted in this blog. Hope I can be more consistent this year but it is not a New Year's resolution :-) For Pastor’s notes 1 Feb 2015 (i.e. my church's Sunday bulletin) WHAM and the M’Cheyne Bible Reading Programme This Sunday we start on a journey / challenge as a church that hopefully all of us will undertake together: to read through the Bible in a year. To be more accurate, we will be attempting to read through the whole OT once, and the NT and Psalms twice. To assist us, we will be using a Bible reading programme created by a Pastor named Robert Murray M’Cheyne.  A little about M’Cheyne might help inspire you. M’Cheyne passed away in 1843 before he even turned 30. Yet as young as he was, he was known throughout Scotland as  “the saintly M’Cheyne”. We know of him because a friend and colleague Andrew Bonar collected his sermons, messages and papers and published them in a book about his life. Here is an excerpt from the boo