I can point to several defining moments that happened in my life that have significantly shaped the rest of my life. Last night in our Wednesday service, I preached on the importance of reading our Bibles daily. While driving home from JBC, I thought about the events that made daily Bible reading a crucial part of my life. When I was 10 years old, I had a young guy who was my Sunday School teacher. One Sunday, he came into class and gave every person in our class a New Testament. He said that he was trying to quit smoking and that a package of cigarettes cost the same as a single New Testament. So, he bought another New Testament for every pack he didn’t buy and smoked. When he purchased the number in our class, he gave them to us. Each week after, he would assign a portion for all of us to read and then ask us next week if we had read it. That was my first accountability group. When I was 13, I had a cabin counselor named Mr Titus at summer Bible Camp. He was probably in his early 20s, single, and took time off from his job to come counsel junior high boys at camp. He had a big box of very nice, leather-bound Bibles. About a dozen boys were in our cabin, and in our first night’s devotions, he taught us how important reading our Bibles every day was to our spiritual growth. I was an impressionable young boy, and Mr Titus was a tough, buff college-age young man that I idolized, and I wanted to do everything he did. He said anyone who committed to him to read their Bible every day and read it through the next year he would give one of those very nice and expensive Bibles. I committed to it, and he gave me a Bible. I read it daily, made it through the Bible, and was very proud to announce my accomplishments the following year at camp when he was again my counselor. I have not missed a year since then of reading through the Bible; most years, I have read it several times.