1. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. Psalm 119:105 Rev. David B. Hanson September 12, 2010 Deaf Liberty Baptist Church Overland Park, Kansas

2.  "So great is my veneration for the Bible that the earlier my children begin to read it the more confident will be my hope that they will prove useful citizens of their country and respectable members of society. I have for many years made it a practice to read through the Bible once every year."

4.  "I believe that the one chief reason that I have been kept in happy useful service is that I have been a lover of Holy Scripture. It has been my habit to read the Bible through four times a year; in a prayerful spirit, to apply it to my heart, and practice what I find there. I have been for sixty-nine years a happy man; happy, happy, happy."

6.  "The Bible is worth more than all other books which have ever been printed."

8.  "The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or will be known in the world."

10.  TO ENCOURAGE EVERY PERSON TO DEVELOP THE HABIT OF DAILY BIBLE READING  1) Many people have probably never read the New Testament from beginning to end  2) Many people have never read the entire Old Testament

11.  The Power of God’s Word: Faith  Romans 10:17  So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

12.  The Power of God’s Word: Comfort  Romans 15:4  For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

13.  We Are Creatures of Habit and Time  Deuteronomy 17:19  And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them: