Sunday (4/10)

This is the final week of the Lenten season. During the past five weeks we have been on a journey through the Gospel According to Luke, reading and studying it as part of worship services and the Your Faith Journey weekly devotionals. Our read through of Luke will conclude on April 20th. Even if you have not read the previous chapters, you are strongly encouraged to read the chapters for Holy Week (4/10 – 4/16). Luke’s Gospel is one of four accounts of Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection within the New Testament of the Bible. If you have not been reading it with us, you can watch two Bible Project videos about this gospel to understand it more clearly. The videos are available on YouTube:

Overview Luke: 1-9 by the Bible Project:

Sunday (4/4)

During this Lenten season we are reading and studying the Gospel According to Luke as part of worship services and this Your Faith Journey devotional. Our read through of Luke will continue through April 20th. Luke’s Gospel is one of four accounts of Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection within the New Testament of the Bible. If you have not started reading it, you are encouraged to watch a brief video on Youtube that will help you understand the gospels:

Sunday (3/27)

During this Lenten season you are invited to read and study the Gospel According to Luke using this Your Faith Journey devotional. Our read through of Luke will continue through April 20th. Luke’s Gospel is one of four accounts of Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection within the New Testament of the Bible. If you have not started reading, you are encouraged to watch a brief video on Youtube that will help you understand what the gospels are:

Sunday (3/20)

During this Lenten season you are invited to read and study the Gospel According to Luke using this Your Faith Journey devotional. Our read through of Luke will continue through April 20th. Luke’s Gospel is one of four accounts of Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection within the New Testament of the Bible. If you have not started reading, you are encouraged to watch a brief video on Youtube that will help you understand what the gospels are:

The Gospel by the Bible Project:

Sunday (3/13)

During this Lenten season you are invited to read and study the Gospel According to Luke using this Your Faith Journey devotional. Our read through of Luke will continue through April 20th. Luke’s Gospel is one of four gospels within the New Testament of the Bible. If you have not started reading, you are encouraged to watch a brief video on Youtube that was created by the Bible Project which is about the Gospels:

The Gospel by the Bible Project:

Sunday (3/6)

Lent is a season of forty days beginning on Ash Wednesday and ending on Holy Saturday, which is the day before Easter. The United Methodist Book of Worship reminds us that, “Historically, Lent began as a period of fasting and preparation for baptism by converts and then became a time of penance by all Christians” (page 320). You are encouraged to set this season apart. Moses spent 40 days on Mount Sinai with the Lord (Exodus 34), and Jesus spend 40 days fasting in the wilderness as the Spirit of God guided him (Luke 4). What will you leave behind or give up during these 40 days to be with the Lord? What faith practices/spiritual disciplines/holy habits will you utilize during this season to be shaped and formed more and more into the likeness of Christ?

Sunday (2/27)

This Your Faith Journey devotional has been walking through the first two books of the Bible, Genesis and Exodus, during January and February. This week we will conclude our time in Exodus. There will be opportunities to continue reading more Old Testament books after the Lenten season in March and April. Since Exodus is a continuation of the story of Genesis, if you did not read the book of Genesis you are encouraged to watch the Bible Project videos about it to help you understand the book more clearly. The videos are available on YouTube:

Sunday (2/20)

Jesus’ earliest disciples had a living relationship with the holy scriptures. Those of us who are Jesus’ followers today need a living relationship with The Holy Bible too. As part of our living relationship with the Bible, we are reading and studying The Old Testament in 2022. This Your Faith Journey devotional is providing you with a reading plan to help you to read and study much of the Old Testament this year. Throughout January and during part of February, we have been reading and studying the book of Genesis. Last week we moved into the second book of the Bible, Exodus. Since Exodus is a continuation of the story of Genesis, if you did not read the book of Genesis you are encouraged to watch the Bible Project videos about it to help you understand the book more clearly. The videos are available on YouTube:

Sunday (2/13)

Before there was a Holy Bible with both the Old and New Testaments there were sacred Hebrew scriptures of the ancient Israelites. Jesus said this about the Hebrew scriptures and himself, “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets: I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them” (Matthew 5:17 NIV). The phrase “Law and Prophets” was a first-century way of describing what we know of today as the books of the Old Testament. In the decades after Jesus ascended to heaven documents were written by Christians that formed the New Testament and they were eventually combined with the Hebrew scriptures into what became The Holy Bible.

 

Jesus’ earliest disciples had a living relationship with the holy scriptures. Those of us who are Jesus’ followers today need a living relationship with The Holy Bible. As part of our living relationship with the Bible, we are reading and studying the “Law” and “the Prophets,” a.k.a. The Old Testament, in 2022. This Your Faith Journey devotional will provide you with a reading plan to help you to read and study much of the Old Testament this year. Throughout January and until this past week we have been reading and studying the book of Genesis. Now it is time to move into the second book of the Bible, Exodus. Since Exodus is a continuation of the story of Genesis, if you did not read the book of Genesis you are encouraged to watch the Bible Project videos about it to help you understand the book more clearly. The videos are available on YouTube:

Overview Genesis: 1-11 by the Bible Project:

Sunday (2/6)

This Your Faith Journey devotional is walking through the first two books of the Bible, Genesis and Exodus, during January and February. This week we will conclude our time in Genesis, then begin to read Exodus next week. There will be opportunities to continue reading more Old Testament books after the Lenten season in March and April. Below are some questions and suggestions to help you as you read scripture this week: