Here are the Bible readings for May 2024 which we’ll be using at our two churches. Please make use of these readings and reflect on what they might be saying to you. This month we move through the end of the Easter Season into Pentecost and Trinity Sunday.
The readings
Our Gospel readings start with Jesus telling us to love another then his prayer for our safekeeping. On Pentecost Sunday we have Jesus talking to the disciples about the coming of the Holy Spirit then on Trinity, we have the story of his encounter with Nicodemus.
- May 5 – 6th Sunday of Easter: Acts 10:44-48; 1 John 5:1-6; John 15:9-17;
- May 12 – 7th Sunday of Easter: Acts 1:15-17, 21-26; 1 John 5:9-13; John 17:6-19;
- May 19 – Pentecost: Acts 2:1-21; Romans 8:22-27; John 15:26-27, 16:4b-15;
- May 26 – Trinity: Isaiah 6:1-8; Romans 8:12-17; John 3:1-17;
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The Bible readings for May 2024 include these verses from Isaiah 6, where the voice of God says “Whom shall I send…?”
Send me
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!’
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