Perhaps recreate the Home page as a splash page, with a simple link to the current week's page, more details links along the bottom, and the calendar right below the splash picture (which might be one of your professional photograph purchases).
Meanwhile, the stuff that usually goes on the Home page each week would be permanently incorporated into the weekly pages -- i.e., the welcome letter and the pertinent quotes. This approach would make the Home page more compelling and eye-catching, and it would simplify your weekly process considerably.
In summary, then...
The home page would be:
1) large, splash graphic, with link to current week's page
2) ongoing Google 3x5 calendar
3) other links within the site
The weekly pages would be:
1) cover letter
2) pertinent quote
3) teaching video
4) weekly resources (columns)
Meanwhile, the stuff that usually goes on the Home page each week would be permanently incorporated into the weekly pages -- i.e., the welcome letter and the pertinent quotes. This approach would make the Home page more compelling and eye-catching, and it would simplify your weekly process considerably.
In summary, then...
The home page would be:
1) large, splash graphic, with link to current week's page
2) ongoing Google 3x5 calendar
3) other links within the site
The weekly pages would be:
1) cover letter
2) pertinent quote
3) teaching video
4) weekly resources (columns)
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Dear Fellow Bible Students,
Welcome to Week Twenty-Four! We continue this week in our extended pilgrimage through the Book of Psalms. That ongoing pilgrimage includes our endeavor to learn how to pray from the Psalmist, which is the subject of this week's teaching video. And, too, it includes our continuing effort to learn how to sing the Psalms, compliments of Isaac Watts. In addition, our Week 24 resources feature some con-sideration of the various types of Psalms found in the Book of Psalms. Even the novice will recognize upon his or her first reading of this book that it contains an assortment of genres. And, at the other end of the spectrum, biblical scholars have labored over the book to try to identify just what those genres are. It is probably not essential to come up with a definitive breakdown of the rich variety found in Psalms, but it is helpful to recognize it. Finally, remember to capitalize on the other opportunity that this month provides. The Psalms are generally shorter than other chapters of Bible reading we do this year. And since we spend the entire month of June reading Psalms, it is an excellent month for those who are behind to do some catching up! |
C.S. Lewis on Psalms of Praise"I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are; the delight is incomplete until it is expressed... The Scottish catechism says that man's chief end is 'to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.' But we shall then know that these are the same thing. Fully to enjoy is to glorify. In commanding us to glorify Him, God is inviting us to enjoy Him."
(C.S. Lewis, Reflections on the Psalms) 3x5 Club Guarantees1) You'll finish the Bible. If you read the assigned passages each day, you'll finish the Bible during the calendar year.
2) It won't be that hard. If you keep up with your reading, you'll find the time it takes each day is very manageable. 3) You'll know the Bible better. By using this system and these resources, you'll come out of the year with a far better knowledge and understanding of the Bible than before. 4), Your knowledge will snowball. The more you learn about the Bible this year, the more you'll pick up in future reading, studying, sermons, worship services, and such. 5) Singing will mean more. So many songs of faith are taken from Scripture. The better we know those Scriptures, therefore, the better we will understand what we're singing. 6) You will hear God more clearly. The Bible is His Word, and when we have it in our heads and our hearts, we make it much easier for Him to be able to speak to us in all of life. |