From Pastor Rob:
Our 2025 "Read With Us" plan took us through my annual plan of reading through the whole Bible in a year. It's a high-level, broad approach that I've used for 25 years. However, before I started reading through the whole Bible every year, I tried a different plan, one I still recommend. In 2025, our goal was to read broadly – to get the big picture, reading quickly through sections of Scripture we weren’t necessarily familiar with. This year’s goal is to read more deeply. To that end, we’ve chosen 12 passages of Scripture, one for each month of 2026. Read the given passage often that month. Read the whole passage each day, if you can (most are 5 chapters or less). Or split it up over 2 days and read it 15 times that month.
At the end of the month, you will know that passage very well and will prayerfully have new insights on God’s character, God’s plan, and God’s will for us. I recommend writing down the questions you have on the first days and see how many you’ve answered by the end of the month. Choose a favorite few verses to commit to memory and to meditate on throughout the day.
Why these passages? We’ve chosen representatives from almost every genre of literature in the Bible (Gospels, history, minor prophets, wisdom, etc.). Some of them correspond to the sermons we’ll be preaching in 2026, so you can be prepared to hear the preached Word by reading the Scripture deeply in advance.
About every two weeks, the pastors plan to record a Gospel Reflection video exploring themes of the gospel of Jesus Christ in that month's passage. We'll link those videos here.
January – 1 Peter
February – Ezekiel 33-37
March – Revelation 19-22
April – Deuteronomy 5-8
May – Galatians
June – Psalm 30-34
July – Luke 13-16
August – Isaiah 40-43
September – Philippians
October – 1 Kings 17-19
November – John 14-17
December – Micah 4-7