Nurture

Bible readings for November 2019

stjohnstmarkchurchburyFriday, October 25, 2019

Here are the Bible readings for November 2019 which we’ll be using in church. If you want to read up in advance – or if you can’t be with us and want to follow the same readings – then here you go!

The scriptures this month include dreams, blessings & woes, hair being preserved, scattered sheep… and the forgiveness of Christ from the cross.

• November 3rd – All Saints Sunday: Daniel 7:1-3,15-18; Ephesians 1:11-end; Luke 6:20-31
• November 10th – Remembrance Sunday: Job 19:23-27a; 2 Thessalonians 2:1-5,13-17; Luke 20:27-38
• November 17th – 2nd before Advent: Malachi 4:1-2a; 2 Thessalonians 3:6-13; Luke 21:5-19
• November 24th – Christ the King: Jeremiah 23:1-6; Colossians 1:11-20; Luke 23:33-43

If you don’t have access to a Bible then please follow this link to the Vanderbilt Divinity Library to see the readings on-line. It doesn’t always match up but it shouldn’t be too far off!

We haven’t listed the appointed Psalms for each Sunday but the one for November 24th is Psalm 46 “Be still and know that I am God”.

Psalm 46

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

Therefore we will not fear, though the earth should change, though the mountains shake in the heart of the sea; though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble with its tumult. Selah

There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy habitation of the Most High.

God is in the midst of the city; it shall not be moved; God will help it when the morning dawns.

The nations are in an uproar, the kingdoms totter; he utters his voice, the earth melts.

The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah

Come, behold the works of the LORD; see what desolations he has brought on the earth.

He makes wars cease to the end of the earth; he breaks the bow, and shatters the spear and he burns the shields with fire.

“Be still, and know that I am God! I am exalted among the nations, I am exalted in the earth.”

The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah

There’s some debate over the exact meaning of ‘selah‘ but it’s often thought to mean ‘pause and reflect‘.

[For Bible readings in October please press here. For more about St John and St Mark’s Church Bury please follow this link]