In seasons when your faith feels like a smoldering ember rather than a fully stoked bonfire, it is easy to feel indifferent about your personal Bible study time. How can you stay motivated to read your Bible when that’s the last thing you want to do? Read this post and download one of our free reading guides to get a jump start on your reading this year.

Our devotional text comes from The Church at Corinth and focuses on today’s Epistle: 1 Corinthians 9:16–27.

Mark, the writer of the Gospel book by the same name, used the word immediately to highlight the power behind Jesus’ many miracles and to  show the fickle excitement of the crowds who would later turn against Him. As you read this Gospel, you’ll be reminded that Jesus is God’s Son, our only Savior.

The Gospel of the day is our focus, and our devotional text comes from The Big Book of New Testament Questions and Answers.

Our devotional reading is an excerpt from one of John Chrysostom’s own works, as printed in A Year with the Church Fathers.

We remember St. Titus today by reading a biographical excerpt from Introduction to the Books of the Bible.

On this day when we celebrate the Conversion of St. Paul, we read a portion of Lutheran Bible Companion, Volume 2.

As part of our remembrance for Timothy today, let us read a devotion about him adapted from Men and Women of the Word: 45 Meditations on Biblical Heroes.

A few years ago, I wrote this blog about why our family loves Lutheran schools. Every year, this post circulates among Lutheran educators and parents. I’m so glad for those of you who also love your Lutheran school.

A few weeks ago, my first grader brought home a little book he had made in school. He was zealous to show it to me, reading the text for me himself as he turned the pages. It was filled with affirmation, but it was unique in that the text focused on growing rather than achieving.