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February 2025 Bible Readings

stjohnstmarkchurchburySaturday, February 1, 2025

Here are the February 2025 Bible readings, which we’ll be using in our two churches in the run-up to Lent.

The readings

This is the third year in the church cycle of readings, which means that we’re following Luke’s version of events. We start off with the presentation of Jesus in the Temple as an infant and then follow stories from the early years his ministry. From the Old Testament we have readings from the prophets Malachi, Isaiah and Jeremiah – plus the second creation story from Genesis…

• Feb 2nd – Candlemas: Malachi 3:1-5; Hebrews 2:14-end; Luke 2:22-40;
• Feb 9th – 4 before Lent: Isaiah 6:1-8 [9-end]; 1 Corinthians 15:1-11; Luke 5:1-11;
• Feb 16th – 3 before Lent: Jeremiah 17:5-10; 1 Corinthians 15:12-20; Luke 6:17-26;
• Feb 23rd – 2 before Lent: Genesis 2:4b-9, 15-end; Revelation 4; Luke 8:22-25;

If you don’t have access to a Bible, then please follow this link to the Vanderbilt Divinity Library. It’s not always the same but it’s usually very close.

The February 2025 Bible readings include this wonderful, mysterious, challenging passage from Isaiah 6…

A vision of God in the Temple

In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lofty; and the hem of his robe filled the temple. Seraphs were in attendance above him; each had six wings: with two they covered their faces, and with two they covered their feet, and with two they flew. And one called to another and said:

‘Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts;
the whole earth is full of his glory.’

The pivots on the thresholds shook at the voices of those who called, and the house filled with smoke. And I said: ‘Woe is me! I am lost, for I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips; yet my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!’

Then one of the seraphs flew to me, holding a live coal that had been taken from the altar with a pair of tongs. The seraph touched my mouth with it and said: ‘Now that this has touched your lips, your guilt has departed and your sin is blotted out.’ Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, ‘Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?’ And I said, ‘Here am I; send me!’ 

Thanks once again to Olivia Snow for the photo on Unsplash