Several years ago I read through the Bible using Robert Murray M’Cheyne’s Bible reading plan — a plan that leads the reader through the OT once and the NT and Psalms twice in one year.
Somewhere during that time, I was made aware of D. A. Carson’s two-volume set For the Love of God, in which he offered daily explanations for portions of each day’s readings. Those volumes have now been made available as daily blog posts that can be read online at The Gospel Coalition Blog or received as daily emails. Or you can even download the entire text of each volume as individual PDFs to be read at your own pace.
As just a sample of Carson’s ability to communicate, it is in these volumes that he produces one of my favorite statements about holiness:
People do not drift toward holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated.
Words of Grace 