Getting Started

We believe the Bible is God’s Word to you and me and is one large story. If you have never read the Bible before, it can be pretty daunting to pick it up and read it from cover to cover. This is a great place to start.

Take time each day reading one of the passages provided and then ask the question “If this is true, how does it change the way I live?”

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ACT I: CREATION

• The creation: Genesis 1; 2:1-3
• Praise God for his creation: Psalm 8
• Praise to the Creator of all things: Psalm 104
• Praise for creating me: Psalm 139

ACT II: THE FALL

• The fall into sin: Genesis 3
• Noah, the flood and the ark: Genesis 6, 7, 8, 9:1-17
• A prayer of repentance: Psalm 51
• No one is righteous: Romans 3:9-26

ACT III: ISRAEL

• God’s covenant with Abraham: Genesis 12:1-9, 15:1-21
• Abraham almost sacrifices his son Isaac: Genesis 22:1-19
• Jacob receives his father’s blessing: Genesis 27:1-40
• Jacob’s (Israel’s) family: Genesis 29:16-35, 30:1-24
• Joseph the dreamer: Genesis 37:2-36 (see also chapters 39-50)
• Moses is born in Egypt: Exodus 1; 2:1-10
• Ten plagues: Exodus 7:14-24; 8; 9; 10; 11:1-10
• The Passover: Exodus 12:1-17
• The Israelites leave Egypt: Exodus 12:17-50; 13; 14; 15:1-21
• God’s covenant with Israel: Exodus 19; 20
• Rahab the prostitute hides the Israelite spies: Joshua 2
• God keep his promise: Joshua 23; 24
• David kills Goliath: 1 Samuel 17
• David becomes king: 2 Samuel 5:1-5
• God’s promise to David: 2 Samuel 7
• David and Bathsheba: 2 Samuel 11; 12:1-25
• The Lord is my shepherd: Psalm 23
• A prayer of thanksgiving: Psalm 100
• Israel sent into exile: 2 Chronicles 36:15-23
• Queen Esther saves her people: Esther 1
• Messiah’s birth prophesied: Isaiah 9:1-7
• God’s promise to return: Isaiah 52:1-12
• Daniel’s dream of God’s kingdom: Daniel 7

ACT IV: JESUS

• The birth of Jesus: Luke 1; 2
• The temptation of Jesus: Matthew 4:1-11; Luke 4:1-13
• The Sermon on the Mount: Matthew 5; 6
• Jesus shares his calling with the people: Luke 4:16-30
• Jesus’ teaching on prayer: Luke 11:1-13
• The lost son: Luke 15
• New birth: John 3
• Jesus is the resurrection and the life: John 11
• Three prayers of Jesus: John 17
• The Lord’s Supper: Luke 22:7-38; 1 Corinthians 11:17-34
• The death of Jesus: Luke 23:26-56; John 19:16-42
• The resurrection of Jesus: Luke 24; John 20
• Jesus ascends into heaven: Acts 1:1-11

ACT V: THE NEW PEOPLE OF GOD

• The Great Commission from Jesus: Matthew 28:16-20
• The coming of the Holy Spirit: Acts 2:1-21
• “Repent and be baptized”: Acts 2:22-47
• Jesus, the fulfillment of Abraham’s covenant: Acts 3
• Salvation in Jesus alone: Acts 4
• Paul’s conversion: Acts 9:1-31
• Paul’s testimony before King Agrippa: Acts 25:23-27; 26:1-32
• What real love is: 1 Corinthians 13
• The fruit of the Holy Spirit: Galatians 5:22-23
• The armor of God: Ephesians 6:10-18
• Imitating Christ: Philippians 2:1-11
• Heroes of the faith: Hebrews 11
• Faith in action: James 2:14-26
• The return of Christ: 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; 2 Peter 3:3-14
• The new heaven and earth: Revelation 21; 22