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Daily reading companion (Weeks 1–18) aVINEYARDresource Week 1

Day 1 Respond Read Luke 1:1–38 How have you seen Jesus continue His mission in the present As you read, think about the difference between Zechariah time we live in? How can you be a part of that work? and Mary. Zechariah is an elder and respected religious leader. Pray Mary is a teenage girl with no status in her society. What's Imagine yourself as a shepherd who encounters the angels notable about how the angels interact with them? and then sees Jesus. Praise Jesus in response. Reflect Both Zechariah and Mary express some doubt about Gabriel’s Day 4 words (vs. 18, 34). Why is Gabriel more understanding toward Read Luke 3 Mary’s doubt than Zechariah’s? Pay attention to the specific commands John the Baptist gives Mary agrees to bless the world by bearing Jesus (vs.38). What to the various groups of people he encounters. difficulties and misunderstanding will she face? Reflect Respond How is John the Baptist preparing the way for Jesus’ ministry? Is God asking you to do something to bless others? What At Jesus’ baptism, the voice from heaven in verse 22 affirms difficulties will you face if you agree? Jesus’ identity and Jesus’ relationship to God the Father. Why Pray would that be important for Jesus just before he begins his Ask God to give you faith and strength to say, “I am the Lord's ministry and goes into the wilderness to face temptation? servant. May Your word to me be fulfilled.” Imagine how your Respond obedience to God can be used by God for others’ good. What do you need to do to prepare yourself for Jesus’ coming to you today? Day 2 Pray Read Luke 1:39-80 In prayer, imagine God’s voice declaring your identity as a Notice how Mary and Zechariah praise God. What we can child of God and affirming God’s love for you. learn about God from their praises? Reflect Day 5 Thinking about what Mary and Zechariah say about God, Read Luke 4 what are the things God values? What's true about who He is? Notice the various ways Jesus interacts with people, and how Respond those aspects flow from Jesus’ description of His purpose in How has God lifted you up when you were down and in a verses 18-19. humble state? How has God humbled you when you were Reflect proud and self-content? How does Jesus’ baptism in chapter 3 and then the Pray temptation in the wilderness here both prepare Jesus to Praise God in a way similar to Mary and Zechariah. Praise God begin His ministry? Who receives Jesus’ ministry as good for how God has shown favor to you, and recount the aspects news? Who does not? Why and why not? of God’s character that you have experienced. Respond In what ways is Jesus calling you today to participate in His Day 3 mission as described in verses 18-19? Who are the needy Read Luke 2 around you? How can you be God's hands and feet? Notice people's reactions or responses when they encounter Pray the young Jesus (e.g. shepherds, Simeon, Anna, the teachers). Pray for God to guide you today so that you can, both in word Reflect and deed, “proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.” What do all of those people say about Jesus' purpose on earth? What does Jesus Himself say?

2 aVINEYARDresource Week 2

Day 1 Respond Read Luke 5:1-26 Which of the verses in this passage are hardest for you to live Notice the demonstrations of Jesus’ power and authority. out? Why? What would it look like for you to take a step today Notice all the things He has authority over. toward living those verses out in a deeper way? Reflect Pray Why is it significant that Jesus does not only have power over Pray for God to give you the desire and strength to live out sickness but also over fish? Keep in mind that Peter would Jesus' countercultural values. have consider himself an expert on fish and fishing. Day 4 Why is it significant that Jesus has authority to not only physically heal people but also to forgive their sins? Read Luke 7 Pay attentions to Jesus’ emotions in His interactions with Respond people, as well as other people's emotions. Notice what What areas of your life have you kept under your own emotions motivate him, and notice His emotional reactions. authority? What would it mean to believe that Jesus knows the way of true life not only for your “spiritual” life but for your Reflect whole life? Jesus affirms that He is the one who the people have been waiting for in verses 21-23. How do these verses affirm that? Pray How does the rest of the chapter (both before and after these Imagine yourself in the place of the paralyzed man. Receive verses) demonstrate the truth of verses 21-23? Who welcomes the words of Jesus addressed to you, “your sins are forgiven.” Jesus' ministry, and who takes offense to it? Then imagine yourself, having been healed physically and spiritually, getting up to follow Jesus. Respond The woman in verses 36-50 expresses her love and thanks to Jesus. What can you do today to express your love and thanks Day 2 to Jesus for all He has done for you? Read Luke 5:27-6:16 Notice the conflicts that Jesus’ behavior causes. Notice how Pray Jesus’ behavior differs from the behavior expected of Him as Thank Jesus for the ways He has shown love and care to you. someone claiming to have come from God. Day 5 Reflect How does Jesus’ behavior not match people’s expectations of Read Luke 8 a savior? What motivates Jesus’ unexpected behavior? Notice people who are fearful. What do they fear and why? Respond Reflect How might your expectations of “correct” behavior prevent The parable of the sowers in verses 4-15 talk about various you from fully loving and caring for others? responses to Jesus. What kind of seed or soil do we see in various people’s responses to Jesus throughout Luke 8? Pray In prayer, imagine the types of people that you don’t think Verses 16-18 talk about things coming to light. How do we see “good” people should associate with. Imagine Jesus at a people coming to light in Luke 4? banquet with those types of people that He calls you to join Respond in. How do you respond? What are the storms / oppressions / sicknesses / dead places you are currently facing? How can your faith in Jesus give you Day 3 calm in those situations? Read Luke 6:17-49 Pray Imagine what a community would look like that truly lived Pray for Jesus to demonstrate to you that He is greater than out Jesus’ values according to these verses. anything you may fear. Pray for Him to reveal his power in the Reflect situations causing you fear.” How are these values different than society’s values?

DEVOTIONALguide 3 Week 3 Day 1 when Jesus told him to do as the Samaritan? Read Luke 9:1-48 Respond Notice how these verses contrast greatness and humility Who might you reject as ever being able to be an example of (authority, Christ, glory / death, a child, the cross, dependence). love for you? What do you need to reconcile in order to learn Reflect something about love from them? Many of the Jewish people at that time believed the Messiah Pray was coming to restore to them to their promised land by force In prayer, imagine yourself at the feet of Jesus, like Mary. Feel and reign as a king. What might make someone doubt that His love and care for you. Now imagine Him sending you out Jesus is the Messiah? What in Luke 9:1-48 supports Peter’s to be a Good Samaritan to others today. declaration that Jesus is the Messiah? Respond Day 4 When Jesus took up His cross, it was to die for the sake of Read Luke 11:1–36 others while loving his enemies. What does it mean for Notice the positive picture of God which Jesus paints. Notice you to take up your cross and follow Jesus? How have you the negative picture of those who are challenging Jesus. experienced life when following Jesus into self-sacrifice? Reflect Pray According to this passage, is the purpose of prayer to Pray for God to give you strength to follow Jesus on the path convince God to give us something we want? Why? of humility and self-sacrifice for the sake of others. Affirm that this path is the only one that leads to true life. Respond How can you grow in hearing and obeying God’s word today? How does the picture of God in verses 1-13 motivate you to Day 2 hear and obey? Read Luke 9:49-10:24 Pray Pay attention to what it means to follow Jesus – what a Pray using the prayer of Jesus in verses 2-4. After each phrase, follower of Jesus does, what it costs to follow Jesus, and what stop and use that phrase as a basis for your own prayer. Keep the correct attitude is toward those who do not follow Jesus. the picture of God as a generous, loving Father in mind. Reflect Putting those passages together, how would you describe the Day 5 way Christians should interact with the world? Read Luke 11:37-12:12 Respond Notice the people and the behavior that Jesus criticizes. What has it cost you to follow Jesus? In your walk with Jesus, Notice the people and the behavior Jesus affirms. what has caused you to rejoice? Reflect Pray From verse 11:37-54, how would you summarize in your own Pray that you can be a witness today to Jesus, both in word words Jesus criticism? and deed. Pray that regardless of how people respond to Jesus, God will enable you to love them with a Christ-like love. In verses 12:4-12, Jesus seems to tell us to fear (verses 5 and 9) and also seems to calm our fears (verses 6-7 and 11-12). How can we understand this juxtaposition? Day 3 Respond Read Luke 10:25-42 Jesus is bringing to light that which people may want to hide, Try to put yourself in the place of each person in these verses. as in verses 12:2-3. Does the idea of everything coming to Notice how you feel, what you are thinking, and what is light comfort or discomfort you? Why? motivating your actions / words. Pray Reflect Receive the words from God that God cares for you and that Samaritans were considered by the Jewish people to be you have great worth. Pray for strength to act today with the their national enemies, ethnically impure, and followers of a knowledge that there is nothing to fear from people. corrupt religion. How would the expert of the law have felt

4 aVINEYARDresource Week 4

Day 1 Respond Read Luke 12:13-34 In this passage, Jesus breaks the norm of “correct” in order to Pay attention to what Jesus is teaching regarding a correct show love and care to the broken. How might God want you relationship with our possessions and with those in need. to show love and care to someone today? Reflect Pray What is the challenge of this passage for those who are in Praise God for the ways you have seen God’s Kingdom danger of not having enough? What is the challenge for those start small and grow. Thank God that you are a part of the who do not, as a rule, face this danger? Kingdom’s mission and work. Respond Day 4 How does this passage help both types of people not fear, as stated in verse 32? How might God be guiding you to change Read Luke 14:7–35 how you use your possessions today? Consider how Jesus declares both the cost of following Him and the cost of not following Him. Pray Pray for God to fill you with a confidence in God’s provision. Reflect Pray for eyes to see the needy around you and for a heart of In verses 25–33, why does Jesus focus on the difficulty of compassion toward them. following Him? Why is it important for someone to know the cost of following Jesus before they decide to follow Him? Day 2 Respond Read Luke 12:35-13:9 How would you explain to a non-Christian the cost of Consider how this passage might be addressing our need to following Jesus versus the cost of not following Him? Why is be ready for Jesus to come to us each day. the cost of following Him worth it? Reflect Pray Looking at the entire passage, restate in your own words what Pray for God to give you the strength today to count the cost it means to be ready for Jesus’ coming. How does this passage of following Jesus. Pray for specific people in your life; pray communicate both that God is patiently giving us the time we that though they may want to avoid the cost of following need and yet also communicate that the time is limited? Jesus, they will realize that life without Jesus is no life at all. Respond Day 5 What does being ready for Jesus’ coming look like practically for you in how you live, work, relate to others, etc.? Read Luke 15 Reflect on how Jesus’ parables in this chapter respond to the Pray criticism leveled at him in verses 1-2. Pray for God to enable you to be faithful. Pray for the strength and desire to faithfully carry out the tasks God has entrusted Reflect to you. Pray for God to show you areas of your life that feel In that parable of the prodigal son, how are each of the sons barren and need special care to begin to bear fruit. lost in their own way? What causes the younger son to return to his father’s house? What prevents the older son from entering his father’s house? Day 3 Read Luke 13:10-14:6 Respond Notice the opposition to the two instances of Jesus healing In what ways are you like the younger son? In what ways are on a Sabbath. Consider how this opposition relates to Jesus’ you like the older son? warnings to the people in the rest of the passage. Pray Reflect Thank God for God’s forgiveness, love, and acceptance of you. Which parts of this passage show God’s work moving forward Pray that God will enable you, unlike the older son, to love despite opposition? Which parts show Jesus’ concern and those you consider unworthy of your (and God’s) love. compassion for the those who oppose him?

DEVOTIONALguide 5 Week 5

Day 1 Pray Read Luke 16 In prayer, imagine yourself as a little child coming to God. Notice Jesus’ teaching on money and possessions, and notice Imagine the mutual joy you and God share as you are what Jesus’ says to the Pharisees, who loved money. together. Imagine God loving you despite your "flaws", both how you see them and other see them. Reflect The parable in verses 1-9 is a bit difficult to understand. Jesus’ Day 4 conclusion in verse 9, though, is fairly clear. How does the rest of the chapter continue the message of verse 9? Read Luke 18:18-43 Notice the contrast between Jesus’ interaction with someone Respond of high social status and with someone of low social status. How does this chapter change your attitude toward your possessions? How does a belief in life after death change your Reflect attitude toward your possessions and your use of them? Why might someone with a severe physical need be more open to realize their need for Jesus? Why might someone with Pray few physical challenges have trouble following Jesus? Pray for God to show you today how to bless others with the possessions you have been entrusted with. Respond How are your possessions keeping you from following Jesus as much as you could? Day 2 Read Luke 17 How can you today show Jesus’ love toward someone Reflect on what is being taught in this chapter regarding our disregarded by society? relationships with others and with God. Pray Reflect Pray for God to continue to free you from the way society What are the examples in this chapter that we are to avoid? assigns value and status to people (including you). Pray for What are the examples that we should try to be like? God to give you ears to hear the shouts for those who society is trying to silence. Respond How would putting these teachings into practice help you be Day 5 ready for Jesus' coming? How can you thank and serve God? Read Luke 19:1-27 Pray Think about who Zacchaeus is like in the parable (vs. 11-27) Praise God for the faith you have, which may be small but can before he encountered Jesus and who he is like after. accomplish much. Pray that by your faith, you will be enabled today to relate to others and to God as Jesus would want. Reflect Comparing the story of Zacchaeus and the parable that comes after, how is Zacchaeus not being faithful with what Day 3 God has entrusted to him? How does he start being faithful? Read Luke 18:1-17 Notice what the passage is saying about how we approach Respond God and Jesus. Think of everything God has entrusted to you: time, money, relationships, etc. How are you being faithful to use what you Reflect have been entrusted with in loving ways? How can you grow Verses 15-17 describe how Jesus received little children. How to be more faithful? is the passage up to those verses also about having a child- like heart when we approach God? Pray In prayer, thank God for everything you have been entrusted Respond with. Pray for the Holy Spirit today to constantly remind you How does your prayer life already reflect the attitude of a that it all has been given by God in order to bless others. humble child enjoying God’s presence without comparison to others? How can you grow in this attitude?

6 aVINEYARDresource Week 6

Day 1 Do people today sometimes expect God to protect them from Read Luke 19:28-48 harm despite making bad decisions that lead to destruction? The Jewish people were expecting God to send a Messiah Respond to come and free them from the Gentile Romans by force. How can you practically live out verses 34-36? Soon after Jesus’ earthly life the Jewish people in Jerusalem Pray revolted against the Romans which lead to the Romans killing Pray for Jesus to enable you to fearlessly testify to your faith in many and destroying Jerusalem and the temple. Jesus. Pray that God will enable you to stand firm, and thank Reflect God for the life you will win (verse 19). What way of peace is Jesus referring to in verse 42? How is it different from the peace the people of Jerusalem were Day 4 expecting in verse 38? Why does Jesus weep in response? Read Luke 22:1-38 Respond Notice how Jesus prepares Himself and His disciples for what Do you have any expectation of how God will work that are is about to happen. not consistent with God’s way of peace and love? What would it mean for Jesus to drive out these false expectations? Reflect Jesus is the King over all, and yet here He speaks of His Pray suffering, betrayal and denial. How is Jesus an embodiment Praise Jesus for being a King that is different from our of what He teaches in verses 14-30? understandings of earthly kings. Praise Jesus that He is a loving King that lays His life down for everyone everywhere. Respond How is your understanding of greatness changed, knowing that Jesus, the great King of the universe, suffered humiliation Day 2 and death for the sake of others? What would it mean for you Read Luke 20 to pursue greatness in this Jesus-like way? Consider what the core issues are in each of the conflicts Pray between Jesus and his opponents. Thank Jesus for the new covenant He has established with us Reflect through His death. Thank Him that under this new covenant, How does this chapter show that Jesus’ opponents are trying you are with Jesus in the Kingdom of God forever, and that all to justify their rejection of him? In response, how does Jesus things are being made new. challenge their understanding of God? Respond Day 5 What would it mean for you today to recognize Jesus’ Luke 22:39-71 authority and to give God your whole self? Notice the various ways we see darkness reigning (verse 53). Pray Reflect Praise God for being a God for the living. Praise God that as What are the various reactions by the disciples to what is you give yourself to God in love, God gives you true life. happening to Jesus? Respond Day 3 When have you felt like Jesus in verse 42? When have you Read Luke 21 simultaneously felt the desire to avoid the difficulties of Notice how Jesus uses warnings to be ready for the following God and yet also the desire to submit to God’s will? destruction of Jerusalem and the temple to also warn us to be What did you do in those situations? ready for His coming. Pray Reflect Pray that God will give you strength for those times when it How are verses 1-4 especially poignant in light of 20:47 and of seems like darkness reigns. Pray that God will help you be the destruction of the temple in the rest of chapter 21? faithful in those times.

DEVOTIONALguide 7 Week 7

Day 1 Respond Read Luke 23:1-49 What are some significant experiences of Jesus you have had? Try to imagine the scenes and the people in this chapter. How can you make sharing those experiences with others a Imagine people’s facial expressions, gestures, and tones of higher priority? voice at various moments. Pray Reflect Thank Jesus for the Holy Spirit, which He has sent to you. Ask How is this chapter the ultimate embodiment of what Jesus’ for the Holy Spirit to enable you today to share with other taught during His ministry? how you have experienced Jesus.

Respond Day 4 How have you seen political and religious power abused to harm the innocent? How can we point people to Jesus, who Read Acts 1:12-2:13 also endured such harm and who stands with the victims? Notice what the disciples were doing as they waited for the Holy Spirit to be sent, and then notice what the disciple Pray experience when the Holy Spirit comes. In prayer, contemplate Jesus on the cross. Enter into experiencing the tragedy of that moment in history. Reflect Verses 2:2-4 describe what manifestations accompany the Holy Spirit coming. In what way do you think each of these Day 2 manifestations is significant? Read Luke 23:50-24:35 Notice the varying reactions to the initial news of Jesus’ Respond resurrection. What might it look like for you to share about Jesus with those who are different from you (for example, from a Reflect different country, speaking a different language, of a different Why might it have been hard for some of the disciples to ethnicity)? How do you need to depend on the Holy Spirit believe that Jesus had risen from the dead? What does Jesus more in your sharing about Jesus? do throughout this passage to get the unbelieving disciples ready for the shock of seeing Him alive again? Pray Thank the Holy Spirit for enabling you to share with others Respond your experiences with Jesus. Pray that today you would When have you experienced Jesus in a way that initially was constantly be aware of your dependence on the Holy Spirit. unclear but afterward you realized Jesus had been working in your life? What are some people, places, events, or things that Day 5 Jesus has used to make His presence with you more palpable? Read Acts 2:14-47 Pray Notice what Peter says about Jesus in his sermon, and reflect Praise Jesus for being the one who has conquered death. on why Peter thought that those were the most important Praise Him that, as the living Christ, He is always with you on things for his listener to know about Jesus. your life journey. Reflect After his sermon, what response did Peter say was required Day 3 from his listeners? Read Luke 24:36-53; Acts 1:1-11 Notice the things from the end of Luke that are repeated at Respond the beginning of Acts. Using your own words, how would you describe the Christian community that was formed after Peter’s sermon. Reflect Now that Jesus has finished his earthly ministry, what ministry Pray does He entrust to his disciples? What do they need to receive Pray that the Vineyard would grow in being a community like first, though, in order to engage in that ministry? the one described in this chapter. Pray that we all would have a deeper love and care for each other.

8 aVINEYARDresource Week 8

Day 1 Respond How is Vineyard living out our faith similar to the church in Read Acts 3 this passage? How is Vineyard differen? Notice the similarities between Peter’s sermon in this chapter and his sermon in chapter 2. Pray Pray that Vineyard, as a community, can experience the power Reflect of God’s love working among us in a way that will be evident How does the healing of the lame man add a different idea to to both us and anyone outside of the church. this sermon when compared to Peter’s sermon in chapter 2? What, though, does Peter say about Jesus here that is also in his sermon from chapter 2? Day 4 Respond Read Acts 5:12-42 How would you explain in your own words the ways that Notice how most of the religious leaders oppose the apostles words, prayer, care for others, and God’s power can work despite seeing God’s power at work. Note that Gamaliel together in evangelism? seems to be more open to seeing if God may truly be working among the community of Jesus-followers. Pray Pray that God will show you those in need around you today. Reflect Pray that you can be an instrument of God’s care and power Why are the religious rulers opposing the followers of Christ for them. even though they know that God's miracles are happening in that community? What's important for the apostles? Day 2 Respond What would it mean for you today to obey God rather than Read Acts 4:1-22 people? What do you need from God in order to do so? Notice the bind the religious leaders are in. Notice why they are unsure what to do with Peter and John. Pray Pray for Christians around the world who are in situations Reflect where those in power want to physically harm them. Pray for Who or what do the religious leaders seem to be afraid of? their witness, their obedience to God, and their protection. Compare their fear with Peter and John's attitudes.

Respond Day 5 Looking at verses 19-20, what would it mean for you today to do what God says is right despite people’s opposition? Read Acts 6 Notice what we know about Stephen from this passage. Pray Pray that people you know who don't know Jesus may Reflect experience God’s power in their lives. Pray that having What are the requirement for those leaders who will oversee experienced God’s power, they will not be able to just dismiss the distribution of food? Why is this ministry of caring for it and that God will enable you to point them to Jesus. those in need so important that there are extra requirements for its leaders? Day 3 Respond How do you sometimes see ministry to physical needs as Read Acts 4:23-5:11 less important than ministry to spiritual needs? How would Notice how the church is living out their faith together. Vineyard’s ministry overall be negatively affected if we did not Reflect care for people’s physical needs? Based on this passage, what did the church at that time value? Pray How would you characterize the church then? (Consider also Pray for Vineyard’s food pantry and Care Center ministries — verse 5:12-16) both the ministry leaders and the people they serve.

DEVOTIONALguide 9 Week 9

Day 1 persecuting him when Saul is persecuting his followers? How Read Acts 7 is Saul changed by his encounter with Jesus? Notice how Stephen recounts certain moments from Israel’s Respond history, and reflect on why Stephen chooses particularly those What are some ways that your passions and gifts have been moments to lead up to verses 51-53. redirected to serving God and others because of your faith? Reflect Pray Why was it important for Stephen to use the Jewish people’s Thank God for the ways you have seen yourself and other own history with God to show them the error of their ways? Christ followers you are close to be transformed by Jesus. How does Stephen demonstrate Christ-like-ness in his death? Respond Day 4 How do you respond when someone tries to point out your Read Acts 9:32-43 shortcomings using our Scriptures? When do you tend to Notice how displays of God’s power lead to people putting resist the Holy Spirit? their faith in Jesus. Pray Reflect Pray for the openness to be corrected by the Holy Spirit in How do these healings demonstrate both God’s love and everything you do today. Also, pray that you can express power? How do the healings demonstrate the church as an Christ-like love to those who treat you badly. instrument of God’s love and power? Respond Day 2 What are ways that God shows love and power together Read Acts 8 today? How is the Vineyard a part of that? Notice how the gospel spread beyond the Jewish people to Pray Samaritans and Gentiles. Praise God for being a loving and powerful God. Pray that we, Reflect as the Vineyard, will be strengthened and guided by the Holy What is significant about Peter and John, leaders from Spirit to demonstrate God’s love and power to the world. the Jewish church in Jerusalem, extending fellowship to Samaritan believers (people considered enemies of the Day 5 Jewish people) and eunuchs (who were excluded from entering the temple by Jewish people) receiving full Read Acts 10 admittance into the community of Christ-followers? Notice how Peter’s vision prepares him for his interaction with Cornelius and the group gathered with Cornelius. Respond What do you need God to do in you so that you could joyfully Reflect greet people or people groups of which you disapprove? Why does it take a vision to convince Peter that because of Jesus, there are no longer “clean” and “unclean” people? What Pray can we say about Jesus, knowing that Jesus breaks down Praise God that the gospel has spread into all nations and categories that separate people? people groups, including your own. Pray that the church will be faithful to continue spreading the gospel to more people Respond and people groups. What are some distinctions you make between people based on religion and ethnicity? What would it mean for Jesus to enable you to love people across those distinctions? Day 3 Pray Read Acts 9:1-31 Thank God for the diversity we have at the Vineyard. Pray that Notice how Saul’s passion and zeal get redirected after his we will be able to grow in loving people different from us in encounter with Jesus. deeper ways. Reflect What are the implications of Jesus saying that Saul is

10 aVINEYARDresource Week 10

Day 1 power and authority in contrast to God’s? Read Acts 11:1-18 Respond Pay attention to what Peter thinks is important to relate to the What is the eventual end of all people in power and all power church in Jerusalem regarding his experience with Cornelius. systems? How does God’s eternal power give us optimism in Reflect the midst of human powers perpetrating evil? Why do you think this experience of God working among Pray Gentiles causes Peter to remember Jesus’ words in verse 16? Think of abusive situations here and abroad. Pray for God’s How do Jesus’ words have new meaning for Peter now that he power to be demonstrated in those situations and for the has seen God unexpectedly working among Gentiles? church patiently, but boldly, challenge suffering. Respond What is a time that Jesus’ familiar words took on a deeper Day 4 meaning for you? What would it look like for you to be Read Acts 13 continually open to the Holy Spirit broadening your Pay attention to how Saul / Paul interacts with political power, understanding of Jesus’ words? How can your Christian false spiritual power, and Jewish religious power. community be a part of that? Reflect Pray How do Paul and Barnabas handle opposition? What are the Pray that we, as the Vineyard, will be open to the Holy results of their ministry and preaching? Spirit and Jesus’ words in order to love people in new and unexpected ways. Pray that in response, we will see the Holy Respond Spirit poured out in new ways. How can an assurance that God is greater than any other human or spiritual powers embolden and enable your personal evangelism and boldness? Day 2 Pray Read Acts 11:19-12:5 Praise God that God’s power frees people from oppressive Notice how the church expresses unity and care for each other. powers. Pray for God to bring freedom to those you know who Reflect are now under oppressive political, spiritual or religious powers. How do Jesus’ words in 9:15-16 begin to be fulfilled here? What is Saul’s role in the fulfillment? Barnabas’? God’s? Day 5 Respond Read Acts 14 God’s people care for each other in several ways in this Notice the continued difficulties and opposition that Paul and passage. What are ways you are expressing care for God’s Barnabas face as they share about Jesus. people in prayer, material help, teaching, and discipleship? How could you grow in expressing care for God’s people? Reflect Why might people have thought that Paul and Barnabas were Pray gods? Why might the people have so quickly turned on Paul Pray for us, as the Vineyard, to grow in caring for each other. and Barnabas after they refused to be treated as gods? Pray that our care for God’s people will even extend to Christians in jail or facing punishment around the world. How does what we have read about Paul and Barnabas so far in Acts show the truth of their statement in verse 22? Day 3 Respond What are the hardships you are facing now as you follow Read Acts 12:6-25 Jesus? Do you have people with whom you share how God is Notice how God is working for good in the midst of people blessing your service of God and others despite hardships? working for evil. Pray Reflect Praise God that despite hardships, God enables his people to What is Herod’s understanding of the power and authority he serve God and others. Pray for endurance in your service of has? What does this passage show is actually true of people’s God and others today despite hardships. DEVOTIONALguide 11 Week 11

Day 1 Reflect Read Acts 15 Here we see opposition to Paul and Silas’ ministry from Regarding the disagreements between fellow Christ-followers Gentiles. What motivates their opposition? What brings the in this section (Gentile circumcision, John Mark), imagine the jailor and his household to faith in Jesus? thoughts, feelings, and motives of people on either side. Respond Reflect How might Jesus’ radical message of care and love disrupt Why might some Jewish believers, who believed that Jesus our present-day economic situation? How might the freedom was the fulfillment and continuation of God’s work to save found in Christ affect those who have thrive from the status the world, think that Gentile believers should keep the Jewish quo? Law? What are the arguments presented to support that the Pray Gentiles should not be required to keep it? Pray for God to give us the power to living out the radical love Respond of Jesus here even when it disrupts society. Pray that we will What are some requirements which you expect of fellow have eyes to see those in bondage in our society. Christians but which come more from the way your church does things rather than from Jesus? What would it mean Day 4 for you to stop expecting Christians to conform to your Read Acts 17 expectation? Notice how Paul’s strategy to proclaim Jesus changes Pray depending on the context he is in. Pray for God to give you patience and understanding towards Reflect fellow Christians who see things differently than you. Pray for What part(s) of the culture points to Jesus in the Jewish God to show you and them what it means to live in mutual communities Paul preaches to? What part(s) of the culture love. points to Jesus in the Gentile society of Athens? Respond Day 2 How could you honor that which is of God in other's beliefs Read Acts 16:1-15 while also communicating your faith in Jesus? Notice the various ways Paul is guided by God in this passage. Pray Reflect Pray that the church here in the US and throughout the world Why might the decision of the apostles and elders from the could come alongside what God is already doing in their previous chapter have led to the Gentile churches being cultures and societies. strengthened, as stated in verse 5? Describe the process by which God works it out for Paul to Day 5 meet Lydia? How did Paul and Lydia as play a part in making Read Acts 18 that happen? Notice all the travel from place to place that various people Respond do. Think about some situations in which God worked in your life Reflect to bring you to the right people at the right time. How did you How does God work through people and circumstances in see God’s hand guiding those situations? How did your own order to spread the gospel? How do we see both a value for openness and obedience to God play a part, too? spreading the gospel wide and growing deepe in the faith? Pray Respond Pray that we, as the Vineyard, will be guided by the Holy Spirit Who are the people in your life who have enabled you to to people open to hearing about Jesus. serve God or have helped you understand the way of God better? What has been the effect of these people on your life? Day 3 Pray Read Acts 16:16-40 Pray that today you can both be blessed by God through Pay attention to how Paul and Silas’ ministry disrupts society. others and be a blessing from God to others.

12 aVINEYARDresource Week 12

Day 1 Pray Read Acts 19:1-22 Pray for courage, like Paul, to do today what God is leading you Notice all the various responses to the gospel. to do even if it means hardship.

Reflect Day 4 How do the incidents in this passage demonstrate the truth of verse 20? How do these incidents lead to the word of God Read Acts 21:1–26 spreading and growing? Notice the contrast between Paul's resolve to go to Jerusalem and people’s attempts to convince him not to. Respond How have you seen the word of God spread as people’s Reflect live have been changed and the power of God has been Why doesn’t Paul take the various warnings as showing that demonstrated? Have you ever been a part of that? God does not want Paul to go to Jerusalem? What is more important to Paul than all the hardships that are awaiting him Pray in Jerusalem? Pray for God to bring us to those ready to hear the gospel. Pray that we will demonstrate that God is transforming our lives. Respond How does your faith in Jesus make you willing to endure hardships as you puruse your God-given goals and priorities? Day 2 What are some ways that Jesus is calling you to live out those Read Acts 19:23-41 goals and priorities today? Pay attention to what causes the uproar and then resolves it. Pray Reflect Pray for sensitivity to the Holy Spirit to know when God is How do economic and religious factors work together to cause leading you away from hardship and when God is calling you to opposition to the Way of Jesus? How does God work to resolve endure hardship in service of God and others. Pray for the same the situation without the Christ-followers even doing anything? sensitivity for our whole church. Respond What would be the economic and religious implications for Day 5 society if a large percentage of the population began to live out Read Acts 21:27-40 Jesus’ teaching? Is that happening in society now as the church Pay attention to what concerns each group of people: the here lives out Jesus’ teaching? Why or why not? crowd, the Roman soldiers, and Paul. Pray Reflect Pray for God to enable us, as the Vineyard, to live out Jesus’ What does the crowd have against Paul? Is their understanding teaching in our society. Pray that we will have confidence in of Paul true? Why or why not? Despite their attempts to kill God as we do so even when it is scary. him, Paul wants to address the crowd and tell them (in the next chapter) about his experiences with Jesus. What does this show Day 3 about Paul’s attitude toward the crowd? Read Acts 20 Respond Reflect on how you would characterize Paul’s ministry based Imagine been accused of something based on a both on what you see Paul doing and on what Paul himself says. misunderstanding of your faith in Jesus. How would you Reflect respond to the people who made these accusations? Based on verses 22-25, what do you think Paul’s emotional state Pray is during this last visit with the church in Ephesus? What are the Pray that today you will have the desire and opportunity to tell elders’ reaction to Paul’s words? What does this show about the people about how you have experienced Jesus and clarify any relationship between Paul and those he ministered to? of their misunderstandings about your faith. Respond Which of Paul's words could you also apply to yourself? Which words do you need to apply more in your own life?

DEVOTIONALguide 13 Week 13

Day 1 Respond Read Acts 22:1-29 In what ways have you had to defend your faith as being not Notice what Paul thinks is important to convey to the people as bad as others make it out to be? On the other hand, in what listening to him. ways is our faith truly alarming to others (as in verses 24-25)? Reflect Pray What does Paul share about his experiences with Jesus? Why Pray for the courage and the opportunity today to tell others does he share those particular things? Why do the Jewish about your faith in Jesus. Pray for the hearts of those you know people, who believed that the Righteous One (the Messiah) – that their hearts may be ready to hear. would come particularly for them, react as they do to verse 21? Day 4 Respond Before coming to faith in Jesus, how did your life reflect Read Acts 25:1-22 opposition to the ways of God? How could the changes in your Notice the religious and political plans which continue to life since coming to faith be a testimony to others? Who might surround Paul’s case. you share your testimony with today? Reflect Pray Why are the representatives of the religious and political Thank Jesus that have had experiences with him, which have systems not interested in the truth? What are they concerned guided you to the right way to live. Pray that God will enable about instead? In the midst of these self-serving concerns, how you to clearly communicate your experiences with Jesus to does God work in this passage? others. Respond Paul has confidence in a God who is above the political system Day 2 of his day, yet he also uses the system to his advantage when Read Acts 22:30-23:35 needed. What would a similar attitude toward our present Notice how God is working to bring about what God says to political system mean for you? Paul in verse 11. Pray Reflect Praise Jesus for being the King above all earthly powers. Pray How is God working in this passage? How are Paul’s wisdom, for yourself and for us, as the Vineyard, to be wise in navigating Paul’s relative, governmental officials, and other circumstances the political realities of our day. working in conjunction with God here? Day 5 Respond Think of a time recently when, looking back, you realize God Read Acts 25:23-26:32 was working in your life behind the scenes. How were you, God, Notice how Paul’s defense builds up to a call to conversion for others, and circumstances working together in that situation? those listening. Pray Reflect Thank God for constantly working in your life – both in that are What parts of what Paul shares might resonate most with those obvious and ways that may go unnoticed. listening? Which parts might be hard for them to accept? Respond Day 3 Paul believes that even those in high governmental positions Read Acts 24 may convert to faith in Jesus. Do you believe that those in Pay attention to the attitudes of various governmental officials positions of power could convert today? Why or why not? What toward Paul, and try to imagine their motivation. makes it sometimes hard to believe that? Reflect Pray How does Paul characterize the relationship between the Way Pray for those in the government. Pray that God would send and the Jewish faith? Why? Why might governmental officials people to share Jesus with them and that they would follow. find Paul’s preaching both fascinating and alarming?

14 aVINEYARDresource Week 14

Day 1 Respond Read Acts 27:1-26 In what ways has the care and support of other Christ-followers Notice Paul’s lack of fear – both of going to stand trial in Rome enabled you to continue serving God and others even in hard and of the storm. circumstances? How can you be an instrument of God’s care and support for someone else today? Reflect What are the reasons for Paul’s confidence in scary situations? Pray Praise God for how the gospel has spread all over the world Respond since the events of this passage. Pray that you together with all What are some reasons that you don’t always have “smooth of our church community will be enabled by God to proclaim sailing” in your life? What enables you to trust in God in the Jesus with boldness. storms you go through? Pray Day 4 Pray for God’s peace in the stormy situations you are facing Read Romans 1:1-17 today. In prayer, imagine yourself on a stormy sea, and picture Take note of the elements of the gospel that are highlighted by Jesus in the midst of the storm, bringing you to where you Paul and what Paul sees as the effects of the gospel. need to be. Reflect From these opening verses, what can you say about why Paul is Day 2 writing? What roll does the gospel play in his work? Read Acts 27:27–28:10 Pay attention to how Paul behaves, what motivates him, and Looking at what Paul says about it in these verses, what would what is important to him. you say the gospel accomplishes? Reflect Respond How does Paul show concern for people throughout this How does the gospel affect your everyday reality? What things passage? How is Paul’s concern surprising, considering Paul’s might you be called to do because of it? situation and the people around him? Pray Respond Thank God for what the gospel does for you and ask God to What are some situations you are facing today in which it show you what a faithful response to the gospel is for you. would be natural to not be concerned about others? How is God calling you to treat others in those situations? Day 5 Pray Read Romans 1:18-32 Thank Jesus for Jesus’ and Paul’s examples of loving even one’s Notice the reasons Paul says the wrath of God is being revealed. enemies. Ask God to give you a Christ-like heart that see the Reflect worth in each person and strive to love them. What do you think Paul is trying to accomplish in his letter by listing out the sins and wickedness that he mentions? What do Day 3 you think is at the root of all these things? Read Acts 28:11-31 How would you describe how Paul sees the human condition? Pay attention to how Paul interacts with people — how he Respond treats other and how he is treated by them. In what ways might you be ignoring God, and what are the Reflect results of you ignoring God in your life? How would Paul have been blessed by what happens in verse 15? Pray Why do you think Paul starts with telling the gospel to the Ask God to show you in what ways you may have strayed. Jewish people in Rome? How does Paul’s presence and ministry Name and repent from the things that take you from God and in Rome (and really his entire ministry in Acts) show the truth of ask what God wants you to do about those things. verse 28?

DEVOTIONALguide 15 Week 15

Day 1 Respond Read Romans 2:1-16 Do you appreciate the reality of the righteousness that comes Before you read, glance over Paul’s list of sins in the previous from faith in Christ in light of your sin? How does such faith passage one more time and ask yourself how you felt about it? affect how you live? Reflect Pray How does this passage relate to the previous one? What Thank God for His righteousness and for justifying you in spite attitude do you think Paul is trying to draw his audience to? of your sins. Ask God how these realities should shape your life.

In this passage what is the difference between a life that Day 4 receives eternal life from God, and one that receives wrath? Read Romans 4 What connection is there between one’s heart and deeds? Pay attention to the relationship of Abraham’s faith, Respond circumcision, and the promise of God. How does your heart before God affect how you live? Reflect Pray What is the point Paul is making by using the illustration of Ask God to show you what changes in your heart and life need Abraham’s faith? What does it mean for your faith? If works do to be made. Ask God to empower you to partner with this work. not justify salvation (verse 2), what is the relationship between faith and works? Day 2 Respond Read Romans 2:17-3:8 Does the reality of faith as described by Paul affect how you view Consider how Paul speaks about knowledge of the law God or yourself? How? What is the role of works in your faith? and cicumcision. Pray Reflect Ask God to show you the difference between faith and works, Given this, what does true spirituality look like for Paul? and the relationship between them. Thank God for God's grace and all other blessings that come independent of your works. Respond Is the way you live in line with the things you believe? If not, where are there discrepancies? Day 5 Read Romans 5:1-11 What spiritual practices in your life might be confused for Consider what Paul thinks peace with God means for us. righteousness in and of themselves? Reflect Pray What does it mean for us that Christ died for sinners while we Ask God what genuine obedience means for you, and to help “God’s enemies” (verse.10)? you live out your faith genuinely. Respond Day 3 How does being reconciled to God affect how you approach life? Is there any distance between you and God that perhaps Read Romans 3:9-31 this passage can minister to? Consider what role the law plays for Paul. Pray Reflect Thank God for reconciling you to Godself and the love that Take a glance back at what Paul says about the wrath of God makes peace with God possible. Meditate on how God chose to being revealed in Romans 1:18 (week 14, day 5). Compare and show his love. contrast it with the righteousness of God in verses 21 and 22. Is there a relationship? What does the law mean for you? What does the righteousness of God mean for you?

16 aVINEYARDresource Week 16

Day 1 Respond Read Romans 5:12-21 How do you experience Jesus’ commandments differently than Notice the contrast between the effects of one man’s (Adam’s) the way the law is described here? How does your relationship action and Jesus’ work. with the loving God (who also gives you commandments) avoid the negative effects of the law’s commandments? Reflect List the many contrasts Paul draws in this passage between Pray the one man (Adam) and Jesus. How is Jesus’ act of righteous Ask God to enable you to grow deeper in your understanding obedience so much greater and more powerful than Adam’s sin? and practice of serving in the new way of the Spirit (verse 6). Then spend some time listening for what the Spirit might be Respond saying to you. How does the fact that Jesus’ work is more powerful than Adam’s sin give you confidence in your own walk with Jesus? Day 4 What can you be sure about your relationship with God due to Jesus’ work? Read Romans 7:14-8:17 Notice the huge difference between the life described in 7:14- Pray 24 and the life described in 7:25-8:17. Spend some time thanking Jesus that His work has given you freedom from sin and death. Thank Him that His work gives you Reflect confidence that God relates to you out of self-sacrificial love. How has Jesus and his work transformed us from the life of chapter 7 into the life of chapter 8? Day 2 Respond Read Romans 6 How have you experience God’s Spirit affirming to your spirit Note the reasons Paul gives for Christ-followers not to sin. that you are a child of God? Reflect Pray Why might a confidence in God’s self-sacrificial love for us and Praise God that you can approach God like a child approaching in our being made right before God cause some to think that it a father. Let God affirm you as God's child. Ask God to enable isn’t a problem if Christ-followers sin? How does Paul respond you to live in a way consistent with your identity as God's child. to that type of thinking here? Day 5 Respond What do you need to grow in more: a confidence in God’s love Read Romans 8:18-39 for you or a passion to struggle against sin in your life? How can Note of the implications of Jesus’ work for our own lives and for you better balance those two aspects of the Christian faith? all of creation. Pray Reflect Thank Jesus that He has given you freedom and life. In prayer, How is our being revealed as children of God connected to the imagine what it means for you to sin: imagine yourself as a liberation of creation? resurrected person returning to spend time in a grave or as Based on the rest of this passage, how can we be sure that God freed person returning to spend time in a cage. is for us and loves us? Respond Day 3 If God is concerned about the liberation of all creation, what Read Romans 7:1-13 does that mean for your attitude toward creation now? Reflect on whether Paul sees the law as something positive or When do you doubt that God is truly for you? What truths in negative (or some mixture of both). this passage do you need to affirm more deeply?? Reflect Pray What are the positive purpose(s) of the law? How did the law Praise God that, always and in all things, God is with you and end up having a negative effect on people? In this context, working for your good. Praise God that nothing can separate what does it mean that we have died to the law? you from God’s love.

DEVOTIONALguide 17 Week 17

Day 1 Respond Read Romans 9:1-29 How is our message about Jesus good news to those who are Notice Paul’s love for the Jewish people, and notice how God still trying to earn God's love? How are you motivated today to has been merciful to both Jewish and Gentile peoples. share that good news with people who need it? Reflect Pray How is God’s mercy shown to be greater than some Jewish Pray that God will give you an opportunity today to share the people thought when they expected God’s mercy to be good news. Pray for the hearts of those you know – that their primarily for them? hearts will resonate when you share the message of Jesus. Respond Day 4 How have you experienced society trying to convince you that you are insignificant and unimportant? In contrast, how have Read Romans 11:1-24. you experienced God naming you as a beloved child of God Notice the imagery of a tree and branches. with a place in the community of God’s people? Reflect Pray How is the relationship between God and the Gentiles Spend some time thanking God for the mercy you have portrayed? Why is the Gentiles’ new place on the tree not a received. Praise God that through Jesus mercy has been poured reason for pride and boasting? out now on all people. Respond How do you understand the tension between Paul’s declaration Day 2 that we cannot be separated from God’s love back in chapter 8 Read Romans 9:30-10:4 and here the warning that we may be cut off (verse 22)? How Note the contrasts Paul draws between Israel and the Gentiles. do we reconcile not having pride in our position before God yet still being confident of God’s love? Reflect Paul contrasts two ways of being made right in our relationship Pray with God in this passage: being made right by works or the law, Praise God that you have been invited into the people of God and being made right by faith. How does Jesus open a way for and can rightfully claim to be a child of God. Pray for God to all to be made right in their relationship with God? soften the hearts of the people who have walked away from God that they may return to the God who loves them. Respond How do you still try to earn a right relationship with God Day 5 through your works? What does this passage (and what we’ve studied in Romans so far) challenge our attempts to earn a Read Romans 11:25-12:2 right relationship with God through our works? Pay attention to the role mercy plays in this passage. Pray Reflect Praise God that through Jesus a right relationship with God is What is the relationship between disobedience and mercy in available to all. Praise God that, just as children will always be verses 25-32? How does this lead to the praises Paul expresses their parents’ children no matter what, your status as a child of in verses 33-36? How are the cautions in verses 12:1-2 God is not dependent on your effort. appropriate for those who have experienced God’s mercy? Respond Day 3 Describe in very practical terms what it means for you today to Read Romans 10:5-21 offer yourself to God rather than conforming to our world. Notice how today’s passage builds on yesterday’s. Pray Reflect Spend some time in prayer reflecting on all the ways you have How are the law and faith contrasted in this passage? What is experienced God’s mercy. After doing that reflection, see if needed in order for people to have faith? anything is stirred in you, regarding how you can respond to God’s mercy in the choices you make today.

18 aVINEYARDresource Week 18

Day 1 Reflect Read Romans 12:3-21 In this passage, Paul brings up two issues which Christ- Notice all commandments regarding how to treat others, and followers approached differently in their personal worship imagine what a community living out these commandments of God. What might be some points today on which Christ- would look like. followers disagree when it comes to how to worship or serve God? What should our attitude toward such points be? Reflect Why is it important to understand that the gifts God has Respond given each of us are to be used in the context of our faith What are some practices by Christians outside of your tradition, community? What are the dangers of forgetting this? about which you are tempted to be judgmental? What would it mean to love those Christians whose practice of their faith is How is verse 21 a fitting summary of the whole passage? significantly different than your own practice? Respond Pray What are the gift or abilities you can use today or this week to Praise Jesus for the wide diversity in how people live out their bless others? In which of the commandments in verses 9-21 do faith in Jesus. Pray for the Holy Spirit to guide you away from you need to ask God to help you grow? judging and towards loving. Pray Thank God that you are part of the body, the community of Day 4 Christ-followers. Pray for yourself and all of our Vineyard church Read Romans 15:1-13 to be enabled by God to love and bless each other. Pay attention to what is said about Jesus in this passage. Reflect Day 2 According to this passage, what does it mean to be like Christ? Read Romans 13 How does everything said about Jesus in this passage lead us Pay attention to the motivations Paul gives for the to have hope, as stated in verse 13? commandments in this passage. Respond Reflect As you grow in being more like Christ, how can you put aside How do you understand the balance between the call for the desire to please yourself and instead accept others today? Christ-followers, on one hand, to submit to the government and, on the other hand, to prophetically call out the evil that Pray government perpetrates? Pray for the Holy Spirit to help you live as Jesus did.

What kind of love is Paul talking about in verses 8-10? How is Day 5 that Paul’s understanding of love the same and different from how love is popularly understood? Read Romans 15:14-33 Pay attention to how Paul describes his ministry. Respond Who is someone you could show love to today? (Maybe think Reflect of someone it is hard for you to love.) What could you do or say How does Paul see his ministry of proclaiming Jesus? Does he to express love to that person in a way that he or she would see his ministry as a sacrifice he is making for God, or does he understand that they are loved? see it as a blessing and grace he has received from God? Why? Pray Respond Praise Jesus that he empowers you to love as he loves. Pray for What is your attitude toward your calling to tell others about the strength and desire to love others today in a way that is your experiences with Jesus? Is it a duty? Is it a blessing for you truly Christ-like. to tell others? How might your attitude need to change? Pray Day 3 Praise God for the privilege of being able to share about what Read Romans 14 Jesus has done for you with others. Pray that God will give you Notice why Paul tells Christians not to judge each other. the opportunity to share with someone today and that you will realize the blessing it is to be able to share.

DEVOTIONALguide 19 DAY 1 DAY 2 DAY 3 DAY 4 DAY 5 Week 1 (Sept 11–17) Luke 1:1–38 Luke 1:39–80 Luke 2 Luke 3 Luke 4 Week 2 (Sept 18–24) Luke 5:1–26 Luke 5:27–6:16 Luke 6:17–49 Luke 7 Luke 8 Week 3 (Sept 25–Oct 1) Luke 9:1–48 Luke 9:49–10:24 Luke 10:25–42 Luke 11:1–36 Luke 11:37–12:12 Week 4 (Oct 2–8) Luke 12:13–34 Luke 12:35–13:9 Luke 13:10–35 Luke 14 Luke 15 Week 5 (Oct 9–15) Luke 16 Luke 17 Luke 18:1–17 Luke 18:18–43 Luke 19:1–27 Week 6 (Oct 16–22) Luke 19:28–48 Luke 20 Luke 21 Luke 22:1–38 Luke 22:39–71 Week 7 (Oct 23–29) Luke 23:1–49 Luke 23:50–24:35 24:36–53 • Acts 1:1–11 Acts 1:12–2:13 Acts 2:14–47 Week 8 (Oct 30–Nov 5) Acts 3 Acts 4:1–22 Acts 4:23–5:11 Acts 5:12–42 Acts 6 Week 9 (Nov 6–12) Acts 7 Acts 8 Acts 9:1–31 Acts 9:32–43 Acts 10 Week 10 (Nov 13–19) Acts 11:1–18 Acts 11:19–12:5 Acts 12:6–25 Acts 13 Acts 14 Week 11 (Nov 20–26) Acts 15 Acts 16:1–15 Acts 16:16–40 Acts 17 Acts 18 Week 12 (Nov 27–Dec 3) Acts 19:1–22 Acts 19:23–41 Acts 20 Acts 21:1–26 Acts 21:27–40 Week 13 (Dec 4–10) Acts 22:1–29 Acts 22:30–23:35 Acts 24 Acts 25:1–22 Acts 25:23–26:32 Week 14 (Dec 11–17) Acts 27:1–26 Acts 27:27–28:10 Acts 28:11–31 Romans 1:1–17 Rom 1:18–32 Week 15 (Dec 18–24) Rom 2:1–16 Rom 2:17–3:8 Rom 3:9–31 Rom 4 Rom 5:1–11 Week 16 (Dec 25–31) Rom 5:12–21 Rom 6 Rom 7:1–13 Rom 7:14–8:17 Rom 8:18–39 Week 17 (Jan 1–7) Rom 9:1–29 Rom 9:30–10:4 Rom 10:5–21 Rom 11:1–24 Rom 11:25–12:2 Week 18 (Jan 8–14) Rom 12:3–21 Rom 13 Rom 14 Rom 15:1–13 Rom 15:14–33 Week 19 (Jan 15–21) Rom 16 1 Corinthians 1:1–17 1 Cor 1:18–31 1 Cor 2 1 Cor 3 Week 20 (Jan 22–28) 1 Cor 4 1 Cor 5 1 Cor 6:1–11 1 Cor 6:12–20 1 Cor 7 Week 21 (Jan 29–Feb 4) 1 Cor 8 1 Cor 9 1 Cor 10 1 Cor 11:1–16 1 Cor 11:17–34 Week 22 (Feb 5–11) 1 Cor 12:1–11 1 Cor 12:12–31 1 Cor 13 1 Cor 14:1–25 1 Cor 14:26–40 Week 23 (Feb 12–18) 1 Cor 15:1–34 1 Cor 15:35–58 1 Cor 16 2 Corinthians 1:1–14 2 Cor 1:15–2:13 Week 24 (Feb 19–25) 2 Cor 2:14–3:6 2 Cor 3:7–18 2 Cor 4 2 Cor 5:1–6:2 2 Cor 6:3–7:4 Week 25 (Feb 26–Mar 4) 2 Cor 7:5–16 2 Cor 8 2 Cor 9 2 Cor 10 2 Cor 11:1–15 Week 26 (Mar 5–11) 2 Cor 11:16–33 2 Cor 12:1–10 2 Cor 12:11–21 2 Cor 13 Galatians 1 Week 27 (Mar 12–18) Galatians 2:1–10 Gal 2:11–21 Gal 3:1–22 Gal 3:23–4:7 Gal 4:8–31 Week 28 (Mar 19–25) Gal 5:1–15 Gal 5:16–26 Gal 6 Ephesians 1 Eph 2 Week 29 (Mar 26–Apr 1) Eph 3 Eph 4:1–16 Eph 4:17–32 Eph 5:1–20 Eph 5:21–6:9 Week 30 (Apr 2–8) Eph 6:10–24 Philippians 1:1–26 Phi 1:27–2:11 Phi 2:12–30 Phi 3:1–4:1 Week 31 (Apr 9–15) Phi 4:2–23 Colossians 1:1–14 Col 1:15–23 Col 1:24–2:5 Col 2:6–23 Week 32 (Apr 16–22) Col 3:1–4:1 Col 4:2–18 1 Thessalonians 1 1 Thes 2:1–16 1 Thes 2:17–3:13 Week 33 (Apr 23–29) 1 Thes 4:1–12 1 Thes 4:13–5:11 1 Thes 5:12–28 2 Thessalonians 1 2 Thes 2 Week 34 (Apr 30–May 6) 2 Thes 3 1 Timothy 1:1–17 1 Tim 1:18–2:15 1 Tim 3:1–13 1 Tim 3:14–4:5 Week 35 (May 7–13) 1 Tim 4:6–16 1 Tim 5:1–16 1 Tim 5:17–6:2 1 Tim 6:3–21 2 Timothy 1 Week 36 (May 14–20) 2 Tim 2:1–14 2 Tim 2:15–26 2 Tim 3:1–9 2 Tim 3:10–17 2 Tim 4 Week 37 (May 21–27) Titus 1 Titus 2 Titus 3 Philemon Hebrews 1 Week 38 (May 28–June 3) Heb 2 Heb 3 Heb 4:1–13 Heb 4:14–5:10 Heb 5:11–6:12 Week 39 (June 4–10) Heb 6:13–20 Heb 7:1–14 Heb 7:15–28 Heb 8 Heb 9:1–10 Week 40 (June 11–17) Heb 9:11–28 Heb 10:1–18 Heb 10:19–39 Heb 11 Heb 12:1–13 Week 41 (June 18–24) Heb 12:14–29 Heb 13 James 1:1–18 James 1:19–27 James 2:1–13 Week 42 (June 25–July 1) James 2:14–26 James 3 James 4 James 5 1 Peter 1:1–12 Week 43 (July 2–8) 1 Pet 1:13–2:3 1 Pet 2:4–17 1 Pet 2:18–3:7 1 Pet 3:8–22 1 Pet 4 Week 44 (July 9–15) 1 Pet 5 2 Peter 1:1–11 2 Pet 1:12–21 2 Pet 2 2 Pet 3 Week 45 (July 16–22) 1 John 1 1 John 2:1–17 1 John 2:18–29 1 John 3:1–10 1 John 3:11–24 Week 46 (July 23–29) 1 John 4:1–6 1 John 4:7–21 1 John 5 2 John 3 John Week 47 (July 30–Aug 5) Jude 1–16 Jude 17–25 Revelation 1 Rev 2:1–17 Rev 2:18–3:6 Week 48 (Aug 6–12) Rev 3:7–22 Rev 4 Rev 5 Rev 6 Rev 7 Week 49 (Aug 13–19) Rev 8:1–5 Rev 8:6–13 Rev 9:1–12 Rev 9:13–21 Rev 10 Week 50 (Aug 20–26) Rev 11:1–14 Rev 11:15–19 Rev 12 Rev 13:1–10 Rev 13:11–18 Week 51 (Aug 27–Sept 2) Rev 14:1–13 Rev 14:14–15:4 Rev 15:5–16:21 Rev 17 Rev 18 Week 52 (Sept 3–9) Rev 19:1–10 Rev 19:11–21 Rev 20 Rev 21 Rev 22

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