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• Week Five Acts of the Apostles Summer Reading Challenge

  The Summer Reading Challenge has been a popular part of the Rule of Life as together we have read and reflected on scripture. Previous challenges saw us reading Jonah, 1 Peter and the Psalms. This year the Bishop of Liverpool, Right Reverend Doctor John Perumbalath will be guiding us through the Acts of the Apostles.

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• Week Four Acts of the Apostles Summer Reading Challenge

  The Summer Reading Challenge has been a popular part of the Rule of Life as together we have read and reflected on scripture. Previous challenges saw us reading Jonah, 1 Peter and the Psalms. This year the Bishop of Liverpool, Right Reverend Doctor John Perumbalath will be guiding us through the Acts of the Apostles.

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• Week Three Acts of the Apostles Summer Reading Challenge

  The Summer Reading Challenge has been a popular part of the Rule of Life as together we have read and reflected on scripture. Previous challenges saw us reading Jonah, 1 Peter and the Psalms. This year the Bishop of Liverpool, Right Reverend Doctor John Perumbalath will be guiding us through the Acts of the Apostles.

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• Week Two Acts of the Apostles Summer Reading Challenge

  The Summer Reading Challenge has been a popular part of the Rule of Life as together we have read and reflected on scripture. Previous challenges saw us reading Jonah, 1 Peter and the Psalms. This year the Bishop of Liverpool, Right Reverend Doctor John Perumbalath will be guiding us through the Acts of the Apostles.

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• Week One - Acts of the Apostles Summer Reading Challenge

  Bishop John introduces week one of the Summer Reading Challenge.

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• Welcome to week one of the Summer Reading Challenge

  This year we reading 1 Peter. We will be reading five chapters over five weeks starting today, Monday 26th July.

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• Introduction to The Summer Reading Challenge 1 Peter

  Join us this Summer as we read 1 Peter together.

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• Summer Reading Challenge - a response to Psalm 143

  Harry Wood, team vicar in the St Helens Town Centre Team, responds to Psalm 143

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• Archdeacon Simon introduces Week 7 of the Summer Reading Challenge

  Archdeacon Simon introduces the final week of our Summer Reading Challenge

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• mmer Reading Challenge - Psalm 139 reflection

  Bec Hill, St Mellitus ordinand based at St Bartholomew’s Roby, responds to Psalm 139 and the five things she thinks this says about God.

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• Archdeacon Simon responds to Psalm 121

  Archdeacon Simon reflects on Psalm 121 and how it can be seen as a response to Psalm 23.

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• Archdeacon Simon introduces Week 6 of the Summer Reading Challenge

  Welcome to week 6 of our Summer Reading Challenge, which concludes next week. I hope you have been blessed by reading the Psalms this summer. If you are reading one of our three tracks you will find this week’s psalms below this post. In Track 1 there are two psalms a week, in Track 2 a psalm a day, and in Track 3 you are reading all the psalms in order.

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• Psalm 116 Reflection

  Rachel Bray, Local Missional Leader at St Philip & St Paul with Wesley, Southport, responds to Psalm 116

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• We introduce Week 5 of the Summer Reading Challenge

  We introduce Week 5 of the Summer Reading Challenge

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• Psalm 105 Reflection

  Archdeacon Simon responds to Psalm 105 "In our diocesan Rule of Life we say that we are Called to Read, so that we may indeed ponder the loving kindness of the Lord. And we also say that we are Sent to Tell, so that we may make known the Lord’s deeds among the peoples. The two things are not so very far apart, after all, and both are to be found in this psalm."

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• Psalm 91 reflection

  Tabitha Rao, curate of Toxteth St Bede with St Clement, responds to Psalm 91.

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• Psalm 77 Reflection

  Noel McGarrigle, licensed lay minister at All Saints’ Rainford, responds to Psalm 77

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• We introduce Week 4 of the Summer Reading Challenge

  We introduce Week 4 with the Psalms for the week

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• Psalm 72 Reflection

  Psalm 72: A call to a Jesus shaped life and leadership

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• Psalm 67 refelction

  Bec Hill reflects on Psalm 67

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• Archdeacon Simon introduces Week 3 of the Summer Reading Challenge

  Welcome to Week 3 of our Summer Reading Challenge. This week we will have responses to Psalm 67 from Bec Hill on Wednesday, and Psalm 72 from Rebecca Roberts on Friday.

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• Psalm 44 reflection

  Rachel Bray, Local Missional Leader at St Philip & St Paul with Wesley, Southport, responds to Psalm 44

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• Psalm 42 reflection

  Tabitha Rao, curate of Toxteth St Bede with St Clement, responds to Psalm 42

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• Archdeacon Simon introduces Week 2 of the Summer Reading Challenge

  Welcome to Week 2 of our Summer Reading Challenge and we read the Psalms together over the next month or so.

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• Psalm 19 reflection

  Will Gibbons, Town Centre Hub Leader in Wigan, responds to Psalm 19

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• Psalm 8 reflection

  Bec Hill, St Mellitus ordinand based at St Bartholomew’s Roby, responds to Psalm 8

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• Archdeacon Simon introduces the Summer Reading Challenge

  Welcome to the Summer Reading Challenge 2020. In the diocese of Liverpool we are #CalledtoRead, and this year, for the next six weeks, we are going to be reading the book of Psalms together.

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• Jonah Reading Challenge for Young People Week Four

  Here are the resources for the final week of the Jonah Reading Challenge for Young People.

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• Jonah Reading Challenge - Our final challenge

  As we finish reading Jonah we come to our final challenge

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• Jonah and telling the news (Week 5 Challenge)

  In the final chapter (Jonah 4) we have seen that God doesn’t always respond how we want. Jonah responds in an angry, sulky manner to God.

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• Jonah Reading Challenge for Young People Week Three

  Here are the resources for the third week of the young persons summer reading challenge.

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• Jonah – the abounding, annoying mercy of God. (Week Five)

  This week we read from Jonah 3:10 to the end of the book

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• Jonah and the depths (Week Three Challenge)

  This week we are challenged by Jonah's prayer in Chapter 2

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• Jonah and the Storm (Week Two Challenge)

  Our second challenge comes from the second part of Jonah's first chapter.

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• Jonah Telling the Truth; Truthfully (Week Four Challenge)

  Week Four's challenge is a response to Jonah Chapter 3

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• Jonah: In The Depths Week Three

  This week's reflection is based on Chapter 2 of Jonah

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• Jonah: Telling the Truth, truthfully (Week Four)

  Our fourth week of the challenge involves reading Jonah Chapter 3

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• Jonah Reading Challenge for Young People Week Two

  Here are the resources for the second week of the Young Person's Summer Reading Challenge.

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• Jonah Reading Challenge for Young People Week One

  For week one we have some challenges and resources based on the first chapter of Jonah.

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• Jonah and the Storm (Week Two)

  Our second week of the challenge involves reading Jonah 1: 4-17

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• Jonah and the choices we make (Week One challenge)

  After reading the first part of Jonah then here is your first challenge.

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• Jonah and the choices we make (Week One)

  As we start the Jonah reading challenge by reading Chapter 1: 1-6 Bishop Paul reflects on the choices we make.

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• How the Jonah Challenge will work

  Thank you for signing up to be part of this year’s summer reading challenge. We are delighted to be praying, reading and learning together as we study this short but important book. We also recommend that you read the companion book from Denis McBride, Journeying with Jonah: the struggle to find yourself. Together with our weekly reflections and challenges we hope we will all gain a rich understanding of what God is saying to us in our lives and how we respond.

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• Which version of the Bible?

  There are lots of translations of the Bible nowadays – and many of the apps give you the chance to pick which version you would like to use.

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• Apps

  There are also lots of apps for reading the Bible

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• Church of England Daily Prayer

  The Church of England’s Daily Prayer is a great way of building a habit of reading the Bible

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• Reading the Bible online

  Many people read the Bible online, finding it useful for searching for things and for comparing different translations.

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• Christmas songs

  Christmas is often thought of as a time for singing Christmas songs. Did you know that one of the Bible versions of the Christmas story has a lot of songs in it?

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• The Christmas story again.

  You’ve reviewed some of Luke’s version of the events surrounding the birth of Jesus. Now have a look at Matthew. You’ll be reading a section that stretches from the end of chapter 1 into chapter 2.

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• Try some more

  It might take a while to build up to reading one of the longer books, like Isaiah, in one go – but there are plenty of other books in the Bible that you can read through in one sitting.

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• One short story

  So, zooming in a bit from a very long overview, how about looking at the whole story of one of the shortest books of the Bible?

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• Two minutes, 50 words, 40 steps

  For an even shorter version (though you need to know a bit about some of the Bible stories to see what they’re getting at), here’s someone’s attempt at summing up the Bible in 50 words that rhyme

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• Bishop Paul talks about reading

  Called to pray, read and learn; sent to tell, serve and give. Our Rule of Life is easy to say and easy to remember, but as we practice it we can expect our lives to be transformed. The first step on the road is to pray the Lord’s Prayer, to pray it just as you normally do, but deliberately to remember that you are doing so as a disciple you join us all in saying the prayer that Jesus gave us all. And the next step in transformation is to read. To read what? To read scripture

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