Our Senior Pastor ~ Daily Meditations

The internet is a wonderful resource, offering many helpful sites that can enhance our daily study, meditation, and spiritual growth. Unfortunately there is a lot of weird stuff out there too! Here are some suggestions of places to look for reliable daily study tools and aids. Some of them offer daily subscriptions-you can have them send you emails with Bible readings, devotions and meditations. Take a look around, and find the ones that best suit your needs. I hope this will be a good start for you!

Daily Bible Reading:

Daily Lectionary Readings
Provided by the Presbyterian Church USA, this link uses the common lectionary to provide daily Scripture readings.

Dailybible.com
Each day this website offers three options: a "card" with an inspirational verse and picture, a short Scripture reading, and a longer reading in several versions, including The Contemporary English Version, Good News, the standard King James Version, and two Spanish translations. If you read the longer selection each day, you will cover the whole Bible in one year.

Biblegateway.com
This link provides daily reading in numerous translations (New International Version, The Message, Amplified Bible, New KJV-but not NRSV) Also Spanish, French, German, Chinese, and many other languages). One nice feature of this site is that you can click on audio links for some of the translations, and have them read aloud to you.

The Bible in One Year
Crosswalk.com is one of many websites that will guide you through reading the entire Bible in one year, broken down day by day, in numerous translations. I'm recommending this link because it DOES include the New Revised Standard Version (the version we have chosen as our pew Bible at GBC).

Devotionals and Meditation:

InterVarsity Press
This site offers daily Scripture readings based on the New International Version, with thoughtful questions asked about the text, and personal applications for consideration in your daily meditation.

"Stretch Your Mind"
This link is to a United Church of Christ resource - daily Bible readings, following the common lectionary, with a brief meditation.

The Upper Room
The Upper Room (Methodist) is a great resource for many Biblical study aids and books. This link offers a daily reading from the NRSV, with brief meditation, prayer, and thought for the day. It also offers a prayer focus for the day, and suggestions for further reading and study.

"Our Daily Bread"
From RBC, this daily short meditation and scripture reading has been a favorite among Christians for a long time.

"My Utmost for His Highest"
At this website, Oswald Chambers' "My Utmost for His Highest" -an enduring Christian devotional classic-is broken down into daily readings.

Max Lucado
From Crosswalk.com, this link goes to a weekly column/devotional piece written by popular Christian author Max Lucado.