000: 2025 DDeeper Introduction and How-to's

Hi there!

I’m so glad you have clicked to listen to this introduction to the Digging Deeper Daily Bible reading plan and podcasts for 2025.

If you want to read the Bible in a great reading plan that will hold your attention and enable you to stay with the program, you are in the right place.

If you want to listen, the complete Bibles I have recorded following my reading plan are the New Living Translation and the Good News Bible.

If you can, do both: listen to the podcast while reading along.

My name is Phil Fields. I’m almost 75 years old and happily married to Gale. We have three children, and five grandkids. In 1983, when our kids were still small, our family went as Bible translators to Papua, Indonesia. We finished a New Testament translation for the Orya people in 2005. Since that time I have been leading an organization which is translating the Bible into the national language of Indonesia. We’re hoping that the entire Bible in the Plain Indonesian Translation will be finished at the end of 2025. Our sponsoring organization is Pioneer Bible Translators.

When I started the Daily Bible Reading Podcast in 2014 the primary audience I had in mind was my grandkids. I wanted to make a set of Bible recordings for them, to leave behind what I would tell each one of them if, and when, they fall into difficult times.

Here’s a list of what I will cover:

• Our web addresses
• How to contact me
• Podcast release schedule
• Take a look at the How-to's at our site.
• Different ways to follow the Digging Deeper Daily reading plan
• Choose a Bible translation that makes sense for you for daily reading.

Please note these web addresses:

For NLT podcasts and How-to information, go to http://ddeeper.today, or http://dailybiblereading.info.

For GNT podcasts and How-to information, go to http://dailygntbiblereading.info.

You can listen to the podcasts at the websites just listed, but it is a better user experience to use a podcast app for listening.

How to contact me:

My favorite way for you to contact me is via the contact button at the top of all my websites.

Podcast release schedule:

Every Sunday, seven podcasts will be released covering the next week of listening. Sometimes an eighth bonus episode will also be released.

How-to's:

If you would like pointers on podcast listening apps, please see the How-to's, linked in the banner of the websites above. A good podcast app

• makes it easy to see the episode notes,
• remembers your place and will automatically queue up your next episode,
• and lets you speed up my reading to 1.20%.

Please also see the How-to pages for detailed information about the Digging Deeper Daily reading plan.

Different ways to follow the Digging Deeper Daily reading plan:

• READ in a real-book Bible: To do that, download the Digging Deeper Daily reading plan PDF. See the banner at our website and click on Plan.PDF.

OR

• Follow the Digging Deeper Daily reading plan using the YouVersion Bible app on your phone or tablet. To find the 3D plan, go to the Plans page, choose Find Plans, and search for the name, Digging Deeper.

 

• How about READing and LISTENing?! Open your podcast player and start the introduction to your next episode. While listening to my greeting, you’ll have time to open the YV app to your next day in the Digging Deeper Daily reading plan.

When you sign up for a YV reading plan, you are given an option to do the plan privately or share it with your friends. If you share the plan with friends, at the end of each day’s readings, you will be given the opportunity to share something you gleaned from the readings. This is fabulous and a great way to connect with your friends through the Bible app. But since the Digging Deeper Daily plan is for the whole Bible in 365 days, I suggest you share with a select group of close friends, or maybe 1-2 other people, or just do the plan privately.

Choose a Bible translation that makes sense for you and for a year-long reading program. Many churches use literal translations like the ESV. My own church uses that translation. But the ESV is not very well suited for a year-long reading program, especially if this is your first time reading the whole Bible. I strongly recommend the NLT or the GNT for following the Digging Deeper Daily reading plan. Please take my advice as a Bible translator: Using a translation like the NLT or GNT is even more important if you will be listening to your Bible readings while doing something like driving to work. For more information about Bible translations, see the READ heading in the How-To pages.