Bible Reading Plan Details

Let’s Get Started Reading the Entire Bible in One Year Read three to four chapters each day to cover the Bible in a year. Follow our Bible reading plan below (or download the PDF). Jump to your desire month: January ~ February ~ March ~ April ~ May ~ June ~ July ~ August ~ September […]

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Are You a Servant of Christ?

Serve Jesus and No One Else Some Christians say they’re a follower of Jesus. Others preferred the label of disciple. But how many would say they’re a servant of Christ? Being a servant doesn’t sit well with most people in today’s society. They view it as a negative and something to avoid. Yet, this wasn’t […]

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Do You Call Yourself a Christian?

Follower, Disciple, Servant Many people call themselves Christian, but I wonder how many really are. Christian means different things to different people. Do you call yourself a Christian? Some people call themselves a Christian because they go to church once or twice a year. Or perhaps their parents are Christians, and they assume they inherited […]

New Testament Reading Plan Details

Let’s Get Started Reading the New Testament of the Bible Read one chapter a day, each weekday to cover the New Testament in a year. Follow our New Testament Bible reading plan below (or download the PDF). New Testament Reading Plan Order: Luke ~ Acts ~ Romans ~ 1 Corinthians ~ 2 Corinthians ~ John ~ 1 John ~ 2 John ~ 3 John ~ Revelation […]

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The Truth Will Set You Free

Embrace the Absolute Truth Found in the Bible The idea of truth is under attack today. Many reject the notion of truth. They dismiss Jesus’s teaching that the truth will set you free (John 8:32). Instead, they insist there’s no such thing as absolute truth. They assert that truth is a personal decision, with each […]

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Seven Trumpets and Three Woes

Revelation Bible Study, Day 19 Today’s passage: Revelation 8:6–13 Focus verse: I heard an eagle that was flying in midair call out in a loud voice: “Woe! Woe! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth, because of the trumpet blasts about to be sounded by the other three angels!” (Revelation 8:13) With the seventh seal broken […]

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The Journey to Bethlehem

Joseph and Pregnant Mary Travel from Nazareth to Bethlehem Today’s Passage: Luke 2:1–5 Focus Verse: Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David. (Luke 2:4) As our journey toward Jesus’s birth unfolds, another complication arises. Caesar Augustus decrees that a census will take place […]

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Jesus’s Brothers and Sisters

Though They Didn’t Believe in Him at First, They Later Did John writes that even Jesus’s own brothers did not believe in him. We can assume this applies to his sisters too. How shocking to learn that Jesus’s siblings didn’t believe in him or who he really was. They grew up living with the Son […]

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Women in the Bible: Apphia

Apphia the Unknown In the second verse of the letter to Philemon, Paul mentions two obscure people, Apphia and Archippus. Some people speculate that because they are listed together they are marriage partners or ministry partners. While we don’t know for sure, what is clear is that Apphia is listed first. It would have been counter-cultural […]

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The Church in Thyatira: Sexual Immorality

Revelation Bible Study, Day 7 Today’s passage: Revelation 2:18–29 Focus verse: “By her teaching she misleads my servants into sexual immorality and the eating of food sacrificed to idols.” (Revelation 2:20) We hear of the city of Thyatira once in the book of Acts. It’s the home of Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth, who […]