A Year in the New Testament: Meditations for Each Day of the Church Year

by Concordia Publishing House

A Year in the New Testament will guide you through reading most of the New Testament in the course of a year, and do it in a way that is encouraging and manageable, taking the readers experiences of daily life into the Bible. The daily devotions follow the seasonal movements of the Church Year in a broad, general fashion, but not in the more focused and specific way that one expects for the lessons and Holy Gospel appointed for particular Sundays and festivals of the Church Year, allowing Scripture to interpret itself in its own literary contexts, and thereby also to inform and shape Christian prayer and devotion over the course of time.

An overview of the Church Year, Sundays and Seasons, and The Liturgical Calendar is included.

Each day contains a Psalmody, Additional Psalm, an Old Testament Reading, a New Testament Reading, Prayer of the Day, and a Meditation.

There is not greater source of comfort, hope, help, and counsel than the Word of God itself. Nothing serves the Christian faith more than diligently and daily reading and searching the Holy Scriptures.

465 pages, Paperback

First published January 11, 2010

Reviews

[Dawn · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.75 stars on platforms that aren't so rigid.

Part of a "series" by Concordia Publishing House that plays off the quintessential devotional Treasure of Daily Prayer, using the same familiar format and daily readings, but with a different meditation under the "theme" of the book -- in this case, on the New Testament. This is a solid supplement to the "original" but I don't feel like the trilogy stands apart from the Treasury, personally. My preference is to cycle through these from time to time, but my primary has to be the Treasury, which is so rich in its content. My quarter star deduction is based solely on some editing/proofreading issues which I just find distracting; they don't actually prevent you from reading and understanding the point of the content.

[Tricia Fraser · Rating 3 out of 5]

Things I liked about this book: There are extra days built in that allow you to start and finish the Easter season wherever it happens to land in the calendar. That allows the reading to be specific to Easter, which I haven't seen in a yearly reading plan/devotional before.
Things I didn't like: The theological viewpoint in the commentary was very strong and constant. Every time salvation was mentioned, it was with a statement like, "We are saved by Jesus' sacrifice and our baptism." Ummm. What about the thief on the cross?
If you agree with that belief about baptism, you will appreciate this book more than I did. Those statements, and there were many, stood out like a sore thumb to me.

[Lesa · Rating 1 out of 5]

Filled with typos. Things regular spell check should catch, like "spostles" instead of "apostles".