The ABC Bible Challenge...

It's been nearly six years since the last time we made some Bible Challenge booklets available for downloading. Back then, the challenge was to read your Bible 15 times a month and to have read in more than 20 different books of the Bible by the end of the year.  Thousands of the booklets were downloaded in three different languages: English, Spanish and French. (The English booklets are still available for download in the posts below this one.)

Now it's time for a new Bible Challenge, and it's called the Alphabet Challenge. It's going to be a journey, an exciting adventure of discovering who God is and what He is like.

The vision began when I and my enthusiastic little dog, a border collie called Maiki, set out to conquer the Trick Dog Alphabet Challenge. We had to come up with a dog trick for each letter of the alphabet. It was a lot of fun and we ended up creating one trick video in English and another in Spanish. (You can see the English video by clicking on the photo above.)

Since then, Maiki and other members of her trick dog team have been making trick videos for every letter of the alphabet. At the time of writing, we've released eleven videos and demonstrated 215 tricks.

Once we started on our journey of creating 26 alphabet videos during 2024, a new Bible idea was also birthed: why not study the nature and character of God, finding attributes of God that begin with the different letters of the alphabet?

The first little booklet, with some of God's characteristics beginning with A, B and C will be released during April as a follow up to a family service on that theme. Other booklets or individual quiet time papers will be released at different times during the year.

Watch this space!

New Bible reading challenge for 2017 and beyond...

Here's a new Bible challenge for you. This web page is your doorway to a dozen different booklets that will help you to read your Bible regularly in the year ahead.

Perhaps you were one of the thousands of young people who read your Bible thirteen times a month in 2013 and fourteen times a month in 2014. These new booklets are slightly different because they don't have a date on them. Each of the booklets challenges you to read your Bible fourteen or fifteen times on a particular topic, and there are twelve topics available. You’ll probably find that you can complete one booklet per month, and therefore use all of the books in just one year, but it’s up to you how often and how much you read at a time. You can also use the booklets in any order. Below is a list of the twelve books available. Simply click on the link to find out more and to download the booklet of your choice. 

If you prefer to have the booklet in French or in Spanish, please follow the Défi Biblique or Reto Bíblico webpage links given on the right hand side of this page.

Who is Jesus and what is He like?

Things Jesus said and did

Old Testament Heroes: Moses and Jeremiah

Old Testament Heroes: Joshua and Gideon

Dare to be Different: Daniel and friends

Tips for everyday life: a letter from James

Change and grow: a letter to the Ephesians

Young people in the Bible
(David, Joseph, Samuel)

Discovering the minor Prophets

How it all began: Christmas

How it all ended: Easter

Letters to the first Christians - this booklet will be available soon

Psalms for the 21st Century - this booklet will be available later in the year

Easter - let it change your life.

Easter. It marked the end of Jesus' life on earth, and marked the beginning of something even bigger and world-changing. Perhaps you live in a country where Easter is about chocolate and eggs and cute rabbits and chicks The reality is so much more exciting: click on the picture to download the booklet and read about how Easter can change your own life today.