With much joy we invite you to join with over 1,680 people each day and participate in something unique to Mount Carmel Ministries! Something unique and creative. Something that grasps people of all ages. Something that captures your attention.

What is it, you ask? It is a blog called DWELLING IN THE WORD™ where together we are reading through the Bible in about three years. We do this because we believe that the Word of God has untold value in our lives, both for now and for eternity. As Christ said in Mark 13:31 (NIV) -- "Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away."

By the way -- a blog is a website that has a sole purpose to communicate with an audience about a specific subject. Ours can be found at dwellingintheword.wordpress.com.

Each week we will post five readings for that week, usually about one chapter each. The overall plan is to go book-by-book through the Bible, often alternating Old and New Testament books, and interspersing chapters of the Psalms throughout. (We begin with the book of Genesis, and then read the Gospel according to Matthew.)

This blog began in 2009 but you can start at any time, in any chapter. We welcome you any time.

In addition to the readings, we list other resources for you which complement the text. They may be artwork, or music, or literature, or movies, or humor -- meant only to offer you a deeper immersion in the ideas of the Word. We hope that the additional resources will lead you to consider more fully and more carefully the Truth that the Bible portrays. Frequently we will post reflection questions to help that process along.

This blog also has a place for your comments. We want to hear from you about your experience with reading the Scriptures together in an on-line community.

Our residence in the Word of God is a kind of journey: we are, step by step and day by day, on our way to God. At the same time, God is with us each day. Our goal is nothing less than complete change. We want what the Lord promised to the prophet Ezekiel (36:26), "I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh."

Mark Nepo, in his book The Exquisite Risk, writes:
"To journey without being changed is to be a nomad.
To change without journeying is to be a chameleon.
To journey and be transformed by the journey is to be a pilgrim."

So please join us and hundreds of other pilgrims as we DWELL in the Word at dwellingintheword.wordpress.com.