Each week, we provide daily Bible readings that will take you through the Old Testament in three years and the New Testament in one.  This roughly works out to one chapter from the Old Testament and one from the New Testament each day with a Psalm on Sunday.

4/13 - Psalm 132
4/14 - Nehemiah 3; Acts 13
4/15 - Nehemiah 4; Acts 14
4/16 - Nehemiah 5; Acts 15
4/17 - Nehemiah 6; Acts 16
4/18 - Nehemiah 7; Acts 17
4/19 - Nehemiah 8; Acts 18
4/20 - Psalm 133

Each week, this section will have a song for you to sing, either on your own or with your family. Use this resource to ground the word of God in your heart throughout the week.

"A Mighty Fortress Is Our God"
Martin Luther (1529)
Translator: Frederic Henry Hedge (1852)

A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing;
our helper he, amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing.
For still our ancient foe does seek to work us woe;
his craft and power are great, and armed with cruel hate,
on earth is not his equal.

Did we in our own strength confide, our striving would be losing,
were not the right Man on our side, the Man of God's own choosing.
You ask who that may be? Christ Jesus, it is he;
Lord Sabaoth his name, from age to age the same;
and he must win the battle.

And though this world, with devils filled, should threaten to undo us,
we will not fear, for God has willed his truth to triumph through us.
The prince of darkness grim, we tremble not for him;
his rage we can endure, for lo! his doom is sure;
one little word shall fell him.

That Word above all earthly powers no thanks to them abideth;
the Spirit and the gifts are ours through him who with us sideth.
Let goods and kindred go, this mortal life also;
the body they may kill: God's truth abideth still;
his kingdom is forever!

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Westminster Confession of Faith
Chapter 3:  Of God's Eternal Decree  (Paragraphs 1, 5, and 6)

I.  God from all eternity did, by the most wise and holy counsel of his own will, freely and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass: yet so, as thereby neither is God the author of sin, nor is violence offered to the will of the creatures, nor is the liberty or contingency of second causes taken away, but rather established.

V.  Those of mankind that are predestinated unto life, God, before the foundation of the world was laid, according to his eternal and immutable purpose, and the secret counsel and good pleasure of his will, hath chosen in Christ unto everlasting glory, out of his mere free grace and love, without any foresight of faith or good works, or perseverance in either of them, or any other thing in the creature, as conditions, or causes moving him thereunto; and all to the praise of his glorious grace.

VI.  As God hath appointed the elect unto glory, so hath he, by the eternal and most free purpose of his will, foreordained all the means thereunto. Wherefore they who are elected being fallen in Adam, are redeemed by Christ, are effectually called unto faith in Christ by his Spirit working in due season; are justified, adopted, sanctified, and kept by his power through faith unto salvation. Neither are any other redeemed by Christ, effectually called, justified, adopted, sanctified, and saved, but the elect only.

For Calvinism by Michael Horton
Against Calvinism by Roger Olson

The doctrine of predestination has been discussed and debated for nearly 2000 years.  Today, the church in the west seems split over this question:  Does God elect us because we choose Him first, or do we choose God because He elected us first?  

In this coupled set of books, colleagues and friends Michael Horton and Roger Olson defend their differing views on the topic of predestination.  If this is a question that you've been wrestling with, these two books might be a great place to dig in to find answers.