Support Material for Reading the Bible

I will start by describing some methods (and what I dislike about them) for studying the Bible. Then, I will describe the method I would like to use to study the Bible. Lastly, I will ask for supporting material for my idealized Bible study method. ## What I have tried: * reading a fixed # of pages per day: This worked well for a while (and read through the Bible a few times) based on this method -- but I ran into the problem of: * Old Testament was too slow * New Testament was too fast * did not get as much "theology" out of it * reading books / articles by reformed theologists * got a lot of theology out of it (yay) * did not like the fact that I was constantly jumping through verses in the Bible * feels "digested" ## What I would like to try: * read a variable # of the pages of the Bible per day, and have supporting commentary that explains the main interesting theological points I should get out of the book/chapter/verse * this is something that is "like a concordance" but at a higher level. What I mean is as follows: * from a concordance, I get things likes: in this particular verse, the world _foo_ means _abc in the context_ ; in this particular verse, in the time/culture of when it was written, _bar_ means _def in the context_ * what I want is something like: this book contributes to developing the doctrine of predestination, verses XYZ relate to this, chapter ABC makes this point, etc ... * so I'm looking for something that is "systematic theology"-ish -- but I don't want to jump through verses of the Bible, I want something that develops systematic theology based on the order of the Bible * so I want something that is like: * in the Book of Genesis, we develop the following theological points * point 1 is developed in chapters A, B, C * point 2 is developed in chapters D, E, F * then, I go off and read the book of Genesis, and reference this supplementary material for the theological points ## What is the closest thing that exists? EDIT: [This](http://www.amazon.com/Gleanings-Genesis-Arthur-Pink-Collection-ebook/dp/B008CM51IY/) may be what I want :-)