With the new year, many Christians will take up plans to read the Bible. Most of these plans are designed to read through the entire Bible in a year, which can be a pretty intense reading pace. Just missing just a few days can really throw you off, and can derail the good intentions of reading through the Bible. If that has been your experience, then I welcome you to try A Covenantal Lectionary.
Lectionary Readings
Through the Lectionary Desert
For any Bible reading plan, the latter part of Exodus (chs. 25-40) and all of Leviticus (chs. 1-27) is the desert. There are a few narrative oases (i.e., Exodus chs. 32-34, 40, and Leviticus chs. 8-10), but by and large, these chapters are a slog. If you invest the time to pay attention to what is being described in these chapters, it will tremendously boost your subsequent reading of Scripture--but you do have to make it through them, and the likelihood of derailing one's effort to read through the Bible is quite high.
Lectionary Readings – Year A Week 3
This week begins the lectio continua readings for this year. The Old Testament readings cover the opening chapters of Genesis. In parallel, the New Testament readings go through the first five chapters of the Gospel of John. The Psalm readings begin the Psalms of David, starting with Psalm 3.
Lectionary Readings – Year A, Week 2
This week's readings are meditations on the Second Person of the Trinity, Christ Jesus our Lord.
Lectionary Readings – Year A, Week 1
This new lectionary cycle (2023-25) begins with meditations on God the Father.
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