The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod has joined with the Lutheran Church—Canada and the North American Lutheran Church to compile a three-year plan of daily Bible readings and a year-long series of weekly readings on Martin Luther’s approach to the Scriptures.
Daily readings
The daily readings are listed on calendars for 2018, 2019 and 2020. The plan provides a guide that will take the reader through the entire Old Testament one time in three years, with the exception of Psalms, which are read twice each year. The New Testament will be read twice in the three years.
A reading from the Old Testament, a psalm (or portion of a psalm) and a reading from the New Testament is assigned for each day. Certain church festivals — Christmas, Easter, Pentecost and so forth — have readings appointed for the specific occasion.
Weekly readings
As a companion to the Daily Reading Guide, the participants of the LCMS-LCC-NALC consultation are also offering selected readings from the work, Luther on the Scriptures, by Johann Michael Reu, (1869–1943), a German-born American Lutheran pastor, theologian and educator who taught from 1899 till his death at Wartburg Theological Seminary, Dubuque, Iowa.
As Luther speaks to us of the clarity, simplicity, trustworthiness and infallibility of Scripture, it is our hope and prayer that each member, household and congregation will turn daily to the Biblical readings with renewed desire for the Word which is a “lamp to [our] feet and a light to [our] path” (Ps. 119:105).
Guide: Reading the Word of God2018 reading calendar
2019 reading calendar
2020 reading calendar
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I would request that insofar as possible that you walk in step with the series from the BCP (=Book of Common Prayer [Episcopal + others]). I realize that on occasions their selections may be biased — in which case I think that we should choose alternate selections closer to being congruent with our doctrine.
But I don’t think that we should be intentionally “isolationist”.