BIBLE READING PLAN

Reading the Scriptures together

In 2024, we will read the Old Testament together as a church. We will also include weekly readings in Matthew and Romans. See if you can find connections between what you read in the Old Testament and what you read in Matthew and Romans, and pay attention to the cross references in your bible that can help make those connections for you. You will enjoy and understand God’s word more as you continue to realize that all of scripture is a unified story of the creation, fall, redemption, and glorification of God’s people that always points to Jesus. Old Testament narratives contain gospel parallelisms, people who imperfectly reflect the person and life of Jesus, and the concepts of our sin, God’s holiness, and the atonement of blood required to bridge that gap. 

There are also some Psalm readings which are the heart-cries of God’s people. For believers on this side of the first coming of Christ, Christ fulfilled all such cries to God. Jesus is God’s definitive answer for the cries of His people. Looking to Jesus, we have full cause for confidence in God. If God did not spare His own Son, what can we ever possibly lack (Romans 8:32)? As you read the Psalms, make these prayers to God your own, and consider the ways these Psalms are good news–expressing the full range of our emotions, and ultimately bringing our minds to rest on the finished work of Christ on behalf of sinners.