5 ways to make the most of your Bible reading in 2025

Is reading the Bible more often one of your new year’s resolutions? Despite your best intentions, do you struggle with God’s word, or feel guilty that you don’t make more time to do so? Here’s Andy Witherall’s top tips for banishing the shame and getting stuck into the scriptures

Reading a good book is one of my greatest joys. There is nothing like sitting in your favourite chair with a cup of tea in one hand and a great book in another. But there is only one book which claims to give sustenance more important than food itself (see Matthew 4:4). Like many Christians, there have been times that I have struggled to read the Bible. But the New Year is a great time to get to grips with God’s word once again.

Here’s five things that have transformed my own Bible reading.