As a church community, we will embark on a year-long Bible-reading journey for the year 2021. Using the Bible from your shelf or the Read Scripture app you will have access to a year-long reading plan, with options available for all ages; spend quality time alone with God’s Word; understand the Bible through a thematic reading plan so you can always see the big picture; stay motivated with a progress tracker and helpful reminders. Make sure to scroll all the way to the bottom of this page to see all the great engagement opportunities!
Registration
Whether you decide to use the Read Scripture app or not, please register to the right. We will use your email to communicate with you about changing quarterly celebrations, prayer partners, and discipleship events. Reading plans begin on January 1, 2021.
Prayer Parters: Reading scripture in community is twice as fun and twice as formative! If you choose, you will be paired with a prayer partner quarterly for the year ahead, providing you with encouragement, prayer, and someone to share thoughts and questions with. Prayer partners will be given monthly resources for connecting.
Using the Read Scripture App
Read on your phone in the app, track your progress, watch complementary videos, and get daily reminders sent to your phone.
Without the app
If you prefer, you can participate without the Read Scipture app. Using your own Bible, follow the reading plan linked below or in your Year in the Bible booklet.
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Theme Introduction Videos
The reading plan is divided into 16 sections. Check back here for videos from the congregation introducing each new theme. If you would like to provide a theme introduction video, please email Savannah Demuynck.
Resources
Grounding Prayers and Guiding Questions
As you read through scripture, use the prayers and questions provided by our pastors as guidance along the journey (click the boxes to expand).
Prayers
Opening your Word, O Lord, we pray you would open us. Open our ears to hear, our minds to see, and our hearts to receive your word to us this day, through the Word made flesh we pray. Amen. (provided by Joe Clifford)
Loving God, still my mind, calm my heart, open my eyes to see your word more clearly that I may come to find you in the world among me. Amen. (provided by John Magnuson)
O Lord, as I read, may the words of scripture read me. Read my life and shape it according to your will. Amen. (provided by Millie Snyder)
Ever-present God, fill this time with your Spirit. Minimize my distractions so that I am open to hear your holy Word. Amen.
(provided by Savannah Demuynck)
O God,
let something essential happen to me,
something more than interesting
or entertaining,
or thoughtful.
May your word be meaningful,
and powerful,
and tender.
Let something essential happen to me.
O God,
let something essential happen to me,
something awesome,
something real.
Speak to my condition, Lord,
and change me somewhere inside where it matters,
a change that will burn and tremble and heal
and explode me into tears
or laughter or love that throbs or screams
or keeps its terrible, cleansing silence
and dares the dangerous deeds.
Let something happen in me which is my real self, God.
Ted Loder
(provided by Ben Brannan)
Questions
What does this passage say about who God is?
What does this passage say about who we are?
What does this passage say about how we are to engage with each other and the world?
(provided by John Magnuson)
What about this passage gives me hope or reassurance?
What about this passage troubles me?
What about this passage disrupts me or challenges the way I live?
Who would hear good news in this?
If it’s a narrative, I envision myself as different characters in the story and then ask what I experience from each perspective. Am I tempted to be the “good guy” in the story? What if I’m not?
(provided by Millie Snyder)
What stands out for me today?
What parts of this passage fade into the background?
How does this text challenge me?
(provided by Savannah Demuynck)