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Here are the April 2020 Bible readings. Since none of us, at least here in the UK, are likely to be in a church building this month, please take the opportunity to read the scriptures and reflect on what they might be saying to you.
April 2020 includes Easter. So, we have both the immediate build up when Jesus enters Jerusalem, Good Friday, the Resurrection and then what happens next…
With us all being at home more due to Covid-19, it’s an opportunity to reconsider how best we spend our time. The ancient practice of Lectio Divina is something worth considering as we search for the holy in the midst of the everyday.
Very simply put, Lectio Divina is the act of praying with the Bible. But we do so in a very active way with our mind and heart open to God. It assumes that God speaks to us through the scriptures in the unique circumstances of our lives, responding in new ways each time.
Here are the March 2020 Bible readings which we’ll be using in church during the season of Lent. 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!
This month includes eating the wrong food, getting away from it all, being asked to ‘go’ but no destination given, spit, skeletons and someone special in tears.
Here are the February 2020 Bible readings which we’ll be using in church as the season of Epiphany moves into Lent.
This month we leap from the Presentation in the Temple to the Transfiguration, encountering soap, salt and bushels along the way… all in a few weeks.
Here are the Bible readings for January 2020 which we’ll be using in church for this season of Epiphany.
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 travelling wise men, a baptism, disciples being called – and people that had been in darkness now seeing a great light.
Here are the Bible readings for December 2019 which we’ll be using in church for this Advent and Christmas season.
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 wolves living with lambs, lame leaping like deer, John wearing camel hair… and Mary bearing a son called Jesus.