Monday Jan. 20: Nehemiah 8:1-12

Tuesday Jan. 21: Nehemiah 8:13-18

Wednesday Jan. 22: Psalm 19:1-6

Thursday Jan. 23: Psalm 19:7-14

Friday Jan. 24:  I Corinthians 12:12-26

Saturday Jan. 25:  I Corinthians 12: 27-31

Sunday Jan 26: Luke 4:14-21

Our texts this week focus on the power of scripture to change hearts and lives. Jesus is God’s clearest Word, but God, through the Holy Spirit, speaks to us still through the words of scripture. In Nehemiah, the returned exiles gather around expectantly for Ezra to read the Law to them. This isn’t “the laws” only; it is the story of God’s presence and call to his people. The Psalmist praises God’s speech in nature as well as scripture, and Jesus reads scripture in the synagogue at the start of his ministry. How do we encounter God’s word to us?