This page is maintained to encourage the careful reading of the gospels by both believers and nonbelievers. It is for believers because our reading of the Scriptures is too often sporadic and lacks focus. It is for nonbelievers because you should know what you are rejecting
Each weekend a new reading guide for the following week is posted here. This guide is intended to facilitate sharing the experience in a family or small group but may also be used by an individual. When you follow these guides you will have read the 4 Gospels and First John in 4 months. The following weekly assignments are linked to their reading guide.
| Matthew | 1-8 | 9-16 | 17-23 | 24-28 | |
| Mark | 1-4 | 5-8 | 9-12 | 13-16 | pdf |
| Luke | 1-5 | 6-10 | 11-18 | 19-24 | |
| John | 1-5 | 6-11 | 12-17 | 18-21 | |
| First John | 1-5 |
Fellowship Groups are now forming for Southern California Inland Empire.
They will meet on Sunday Afternoons or evenings or Tuesday evening. A group has begun meeting on Wednesday at Victoria at 7 P.M. All are welcome.
One couple has registered.
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Matthew Chapters 1-8 To be read during the first week
Agenda is to help you focus as you read and for group sharing at the end of the week
Welcome: Brief time for sharing life events.
Worship: Read Psalm 23 and invite God's Spirit to guide in the reading and reflection on His Word.
Assignment Overview:
Genealogy 1:1-17 Purpose?
Jesus Birth and Childhood 1:18-2:23
Baptism and Temptation 3:1- 4:11
Begins to preach and call disciples 4:12-25
"Sermon on the Mount" 5:1-7:29
Stories of Healings 8:1-34
Take note of references to the Old Testament (These were the total of the sacred writings of the Jews when Jesus was here and had not been added to for several hundred years.)
What is the most obvious intent of the author in relating the story of Jesus' birth and childhood?
What do you think was Jesus' goal for his preaching?
Choose a passage that is especially interesting to you or about which you have questions that you will share next time.
Share and Prayer: Opportunity for each participant to request prayer for family, friends or concerns.
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Matthew Chapters 9-16 To be read during the second week
Agenda is to help you focus as you read and for group sharing at the end of the week
Welcome: Brief time for sharing life events.
Worship: Read Psalm 34 and invite God's Spirit to guide in the reading and reflection on His Word.
Review Matthew 1-8: Questions - Comments - Decisions
Assignment Overview:
Jesus establishes his authority 9:1-34 Need for workers; He chooses, instructs and sends the twelve 9:35-38 -10:42
Jesus affirms John the Baptist, offers rest to the weary 11:1-30 He reclaims the Sabbath 12:1-14; refutes the Pharisees, identifies his family. 12:15-50
Parables of the kingdom, prophets without honor, Jesus feeds 5,000 and walks on water 13:1-14:36
What defiles? Results of faith 15:1-39; False teaching, true confession and Jesus foretells his death. 16:1-28
How are guilt and illness, faith and healing related?
How did Jesus view death? What is the harvest?
What instructions/promises Jesus gave his disciples can be yours?
What day is the Lord 's Day? What was Jonah's sign?
What is the Kingdom of Heaven like?
On what did Peter base his "confession?" Why did Jesus then start talking about his death?
Share and Prayer: Opportunity for each participant to request prayer for family, friends or concerns.
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Matthew Chapters 17-23 To be read during the third week
Agenda is to help you focus as you read and for group sharing at the end of the week
Welcome: Brief time of sharing life events.
Worship: Read Psalm 8 and invite God's Spirit to guide in the reading and reflection on His Word.
Review Matthew 9-16: Questions - Comments - Decisions
Assignment Overview:
Moses & Elijah encourage Jesus, Two miracles, who is great, 2 parables -17:1 - 18:35
Divorce, wealth & salvation, compensation in the Kingdom of Heaven, asking for 1st place, blind healed 19:1-20:34
Triumphal entry, Jesus' authority, parables of the Kingdom, paying taxes, resurrection, 21:1-22:33
Greatest commandments Who is the Christ, Seven woes, 22:34-23:39
Who might Moses and Elijah represent?
Why were children so important to Jesus?
What parable tells you that you are important to Jesus (God)?
Is wealth of any kind an indication of God's favor? Why does wealth make salvation difficult?
What evidence do you find confirming that Jesus was the expected messiah?
What relationships do you see between the greatest commandments and the seven woes?
Share and Prayer: Opportunity for each participant to request prayer for family, friends or concerns.
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Matthew Chapters 24-28 To be read during the 4th week
Agenda is to help you focus as you read and for group sharing at the end of the week
Welcome: Brief time of sharing life events.
Worship: Read Psalm 13 and invite God's Spirit to guide in the reading and reflection on His Word.
Review Matthew 9-16: Questions - Comments - Decisions
Assignment Overview:
Signs of the end of the age, day and hour not known, parables relating to the coming of the Son of Man; 24:1-25:46
Plot to kill Jesus, anointed at Simon's home, Lord's supper, Gethsemane, arrested, Sanhedrin, Peter's denial 26:1-75
Judas, Jesus before Pilate, Crucifixion, death, burial, guard placed at the tomb 27:1-66
Jesus' resurrection, guards' report, the Great Commission 28:1-20
What does Jesus mean when he speaks of the "coming of the Son of Man? How will He come? Do you believe Him?
What do the parables of his coming mean to you?
What connections do you see between the Passover, the Lord's supper and Jesus' crucifixion?
How did the events in Gethsemane relate to what followed? Might there have been a different outcome?
Which of the resurrection stories is most plausible to you? Why?
Share and Prayer: Opportunity for each participant to request prayer for family, friends or concerns.
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Mark Chapters 1-4 To be read during the fifth week
Agenda is to help you focus as you read and for group sharing at the end of the week
Welcome: Brief time of sharing life events.
Worship: Read Psalm 16 and invite God's Spirit to guide in our time together and in the reading and reflection on His Word.
Assignment Overview:
Jesus recognized as Messiah, 1:1-28
He Heals and prays 1:29-45
Forgives, heals and calls; fasting 2:1-22
On keeping the Sabbath 2:23-3:6
Jesus' followers 3:7-34
Parables 4:1-34; Calms the storm 4:35-41
Who was Jesus? Who recognized who Jesus was?
What evidence does Mark record that supports the identification of Jesus?
If Jesus was "the Holy one of God" why would Jesus need to pray?
Is it easier to forgive than to heal?
What is the Sabbath for? How should it be observed?
What does it mean to be a follower of Jesus?
What do the parables and the calming of the storm teach us?
Share and Prayer: Opportunity for each participant to request prayer for family, friends or concerns.
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Mark Chapters 5-8 To be read during the sixth week
Agenda is to help you focus as you read and for group sharing at the end of the week
Welcome: Brief time of sharing life events.
Worship: Read Psalm 50 and invite God's Spirit to guide in our time together and in the reading and reflection on His Word.
Assignment Overview:
Demon possession and deliverance 5:1-20
Touch of faith 5:21-34 Raising the dead 5:35-43
Prophet comes home; sends the twelve 6:1-13
John beheaded 6:14-29 Feeds 5,000, walks on water 6:30-52
Clean and Unclean; foreigner's faith 7:1-37
Feeds 4,000; Pharisees' yeast 8:1-21; Confession and the cross 8:27-38
How are driving out demons and restoring life similar?
How is faith expressed? What shows a lack of faith?
Why do bad things happen to God's people?
How is compassion revealed? How are food and spiritual cleanness related?
How did foreigners relate to Jesus?
How are feeding 4,000 and the Pharisees connected? How are confession and the cross connected?
Share and Prayer: Opportunity for each participant to request prayer for family, friends or concerns.
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Mark Chapters 9-12 To be read during the seventh week
Agenda is to help you focus as you read and for group sharing at the end of the week
Welcome: Brief time of sharing life events.
Worship: Read Psalm 95 and invite God's Spirit to guide in our time together and in the reading and reflection on His Word.
Assignment Overview:
Transfiguration; Rebukes evil spirit 9:1-32; Greatness, co-laborers and loyalty 9:33-50
Teachings on divorce, children and riches 10:1-31; Betrayal, rulers and servants, blind healed 10:32-52
Triumphal entry, temple cleansed 11:1-19
Faith, authority, tenants 11:20-12:12; Taxes, marriage & commandments 12:13-27
The Christ; the widow 12:28-44
How could the transfiguration represent the kingdom of God? Where did Moses and Elijah come from? (Jude 8,9; 2 Kings 2) Who was Elijah in Verses 12, 13?
How do evil spirits manifest themselves today? The disciples were afraid to ask. What keeps us from asking?
Who is greatest in God's kingdom?
What do you want Jesus to do for you?
How do you love God supremely and your neighbor as yourself?
Share and Prayer: Opportunity for each participant to request prayer for family, friends or concerns.
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Mark Chapters 13-16 To be read during the eighth week
Agenda is to help you focus as you read and for group sharing at the end of the week
Welcome: Brief time of sharing life events.
Worship: Read Psalm 22 and invite God's Spirit to guide in our time together and in the reading and reflection on His Word.
Assignment Overview:
Signs of the end; hour unknown 13:1-37 Anointed; Lord's supper 14:1-31
Gethsemane; arrest 14:32-51
Trial; disowned 14:53-72; Before Pilate, mocked 15:1-20
Crucifixion & death 15:21-41
Burial & resurrection 15:42-16:20
What happened to Jerusalem in AD 70? Signs in the sun, moon and stars - Google - "dark day" and "meteor 1833." Who knows when the end will come?
Whose characters are revealed by Simon's feast? What is the connection between the Lord's Supper and the Passover?
Compare 14:27-31 with 14:66-72 and Acts 4:1-13 . Why the difference? What happened (really) in Gethsemane?
Why could Jesus not save himself? What evidence is given that Jesus is who he said he was?
What is the good news?
Share and Prayer: Opportunity for each participant to request prayer for family, friends or concerns.