Why we read one book of the Bible at a time

Visitors sometimes notice that our preaching calendar looks slow. Fourteen weeks in John. A whole autumn in Exodus. No greatest-hits tour, no verse-of-the-day roulette.

That’s on purpose. Scripture was written in books, not fortune cookies, and a book read slowly gets to disagree with you — to say the thing you wouldn’t have picked out yourself. The uncomfortable chapters arrive on schedule, right alongside the comforting ones, and everybody hears them together.

If you’re joining mid-book, don’t worry: every message stands on its own, and the whole series is in the library and the podcast feed. Start anywhere. Staying is the part that changes you.

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