25 chapters in... halfway through Genesis... three-and-a-half weeks into the three-and-a-half years!

A few notes and reflections...

I'm really enjoying writing the summaries each morning (good job, hey!) November 2013 seems a long way away, but each day I’m very motivated by what I'm going to write tomorrow.

It’s been great interacting with all kinds of people via Twitter and the website. It's really encouraging to hear what people make of the project. Do feel free to add your comments to the posts and chapter summaries!

UCB are broadcasting recordings of a week's worth of summaries five times a day every day. I don't think they play at set times but the recordings are great so it's worth listening out for them.

And I've just noticed that Soul Survivor are starting a 'Bible in One Year' programme today. It's very exciting to see such a major initiative engaging with the Bible. (Although I have to admit I'm a little jealous that they'll be finished so soon!)

I'm stunned by the response to what I thought would be a little project! 11,000 new followers in less than a week and articles all over the world!

I'm still going through all the emails and messages. Many thanks to those of you who've sent encouragement!

I've put up a press section to link to some of the articles that have mentioned Bible Summary. It's been fantastic that so much of what has been said has been positive.

One of the things I'm happiest about is that many of the articles have quoted my hope that this project inspires you to read the Bible for yourself.

BibleStudyTools.com is one place to start if you don't already have a Bible.

A couple of media things coming up:

• Tomorrow morning I'll be talking about Bible Summary on CNN International via Skype!
• On Sunday morning I'll be talking to lots of BBC Local Radio Sunday Breakfast Shows.

I'll be commenting more on the actual business of summarising the Bible in the future, but everything has been a bit overshadowed by the media attention this week.

There's a long way to go!

It's quite hard to know what to say in the beginning.

If all goes to plan, I'll be summarising the Bible for the next three-and-a-half years: one tweet per chapter, one chapter per day. That's an intimidating amount of time to commit to doing something pretty much every day! But here we go...

I'll keep within Twitter's 140 character limit (including an abbreviated chapter reference at the beginning e.g. "Gen1:"), and try to convey a summary of each chapter in something like the style of the chapter itself.

Will I really be able to do justice to all 176 verses of Psalm 119 in 140 characters? Probably not. But the challenge of being so brief will force me to engage with the text and understand the key themes. And that's partly the point in the first place - I want to be an active rather than a passive reader of Scripture!

The Twitter account is @biblesummary, and I've built this website to keep track of my progress. I'm only going to post chapter summaries at the Twitter account - no commentary or replies - but I'll be reflecting on the project here.

The commenting system for this site has the option to synch with your own Twitter account, so get involved! Maybe you could read along with me and post your own summary as a comment to each chapter...?

Will I even make it to Exodus? Stay tuned and we'll find out...