{"id":2550,"date":"2009-12-30T12:41:04","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T17:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/?p=2550"},"modified":"2026-06-10T16:41:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T21:41:13","slug":"bible-in-90-days-a-little-background","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/bible-in-90-days-a-little-background\/","title":{"rendered":"Bible in 90 Days: A little background"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Several years before the very first Bible read through on MomsToolbox, Ted Cooper, who is now a friend of mine, was happily an agnostic. But then his kids started asking questions. And he started to wonder. And he wanted to just put the whole thing to rest. So he decided to find the quickest, easiest way to answer his questions and read the whole Bible, cover to cover. He found an NIV thinline (fewest footnotes, large type yet still small enough to be very portable), counted the pages, and divided by about 3 months. And off he read. And halfway through the Old Testament, he became a Christian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m sure you can imagine that this experience was life-changing for him in more ways than one. He quit his job and made it his mission to help others read the Bible in 90 days as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He assembled study notes to go along with the reading, week by week, and convinced someone at his church to prepare a weekly discussion applicable to what the reading would be week to week. And he asked if the church where he had attended for years would allow the curriculum to be offered. And, thus, Bible in 90 Days was born.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was fortunate to take one of the classes just before I moved out to the suburbs of North Houston… and I brought the curriculum with me to my new church. At first, we used photocopied notes in blue notebooks and watched a rough cut of a video that was shot live for another group on Sunday morning. We used the same blue NIV Thinline that Ted had used, with the reading schedule taped into our Bibles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He insisted we use that official Bible, which was the same one he had used… and almost all those who did succeeded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since then, Zondervan picked up the program and published the curriculum; more videos were created to go with the program, and they also replaced Ted’s blue NIV from their lineup with the 90 Days Bible, featuring page markers for daily reading. There have been small groups, large groups, church-wide groups, and even community reading groups. The initial ministry has changed. And I have hosted many Bible in 90 days and Bible in 180 days programs (as well as several other reading programs here) in MomsToolbox since 2010, reaching tens of thousands of Bible readers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every 90 day program you see out there for reading the Bible stemmed from Ted’s questions and determination. And I, for one, am so thankful he pursued those questions diligently, sought out the truth… and then shared his process with us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Had it not been for his program, I know I would not be the only one out there still struggling to read the entire Bible… someday. If you have ever been curious about what is in ALL of those pages, I hope you’ll read with me, or start a group on your own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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