The document is a 7-week Bible reading plan focused on 10 themes in the weeks leading up to Easter: forgiveness, repentance, celebration, solitude, prayer, obedience, and meditation. It provides short daily Bible passages on each theme along with instructions to read the passage slowly, reflect on words or ideas that stand out, and share them with God. The goal is to let the words sink deep into one's heart and transform their view of God as they draw closer to Jesus in the weeks before Easter.

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Introduction
Instructions
Start your 7-week reading plan today! During the weeks
leading up to Easter, alum will be reading the Bible
together and diving in to 10 themes in hopes of drawing
closer to one another and to Jesus.
“But He was pierced for our rebellion, crushed for our sins. He was beaten so
we could be whole. He was whipped so we could be healed.” Isaiah 53:5 (NLT)
The weeks leading up to Easter have always been important to Christians. We
see Jesus’ heart for the world as He was pierced, crushed, and beaten for our
salvation!
As Christians, we’re called to become like Jesus. This reading plan will
center on 10 themes that Christians throughout the world have focused on
during this season in hopes of growing in their relationships with Him.
Don’t worry if you fall behind! The words aren’t going anywhere and you can
revisit them someday, don’t feel like you need to catch up—simply stick to the
reading of the day.
You’ll notice that the readings are shorter than those from other plans. We
studied and prayed through these readings to give you only a couple verses
each day. What we hope though, is that you’ll let these words sink deep into
your heart and begin to become a part of how you view God.
Request: Begin by asking God to reveal Himself to you as you read.
Read: The day’s passage slowly a few times until some words or ideas begin
to catch your attention.
Reflect: Begin to focus on those words or ideas and repeat them in your
mind, then ask yourself;
Why do these stick out?
What am I reminded of?
What does it make me hope for?
Receive: Share with God what word, phrase, or idea captured your attention.
Ask Him how He might want to use these to impact and transform you.
Remember: God is with you and that He is at work transforming your heart.
Hold on to these words and remember them throughout the day.
Many have benefited over time by keeping a physical reminder with them
to bring Scripture to mind. Jews have always placed Scripture on the doors
of their homes. Many people prominently display Scripture throughout their
homes. Eileen Zilch, SpringHill’s Director of Information and Technology,
encourages staff to keep a notecard with passages with them at all times.
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2. Forgiveness
2.15.15 Joel 2:12–13 That is why the Lord says, “Turn to Me now, while there is time. Give Me your hearts.
Come with fasting, weeping, and mourning. Don’t tear your clothing in your grief,
but tear your hearts instead.” Return to the Lord your God, for He is merciful and
compassionate, slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love. He is eager to relent
and not punish.
2.16.15 Joel 2:15–16 Blow the ram’s horn in Jerusalem! Announce a time of fasting; call the people together
for a solemn meeting. Gather all the people—the elders, the children, and even the
babies. Call the bridegroom from his quarters and the bride from her private room.
2.17.15 Joel 2:17–18 Let the priests, who minister in the Lord’s presence, stand and weep between the entry
room to the Temple and the altar. Let them pray, “Spare your people, Lord! Don’t let
your special possession become an object of mockery. Don’t let them become a joke
for unbelieving foreigners who say, ‘Has the God of Israel left them?’”
Then the Lord will pity his people and jealously guard the honor of his land.
Repentance
2.18.15 Acts 3:19 Now repent of your sins and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped away.
2.19.15 Luke 9:23–25 Then He said to the crowd, “If any of you wants to be My follower, you must turn from
your selfish ways, take up your cross daily, and follow Me. If you try to hang on to your
life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for My sake, you will save it. And what do
you benefit if you gain the whole world but are yourself lost or destroyed?”
2.20.15 2 Chronicles 7:14 Then if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves and pray and seek
My face and turn from their wicked ways, I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins
and restore their land.
2.21.15 Isaiah 30:15a This is what the Sovereign Lord, the Holy One of Israel, says: “Only in returning to Me
and resting in Me will you be saved. In quietness and confidence is your strength…”
Celebration
2.22.15 Mark 1:12–15 The Spirit then compelled Jesus to go into the wilderness, where He was tempted
by Satan for forty days. He was out among the wild animals, and angels took care of
Him. Later on, after John was arrested, Jesus went into Galilee, where He preached
God’s Good News. “The time promised by God has come at last!” He announced. “The
Kingdom of God is near! Repent of your sins and believe the Good News!”
Solitude
2.23.15 Mark 6:31–32 Then Jesus said, “Let’s go off by ourselves to a quiet place and rest awhile.” He said
this because there were so many people coming and going that Jesus and His Apostles
didn’t even have time to eat. So they left by boat for a quiet place, where they could be
alone.
2.24.15 Matthew 4:1–2 Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted there by the devil.
For forty days and forty nights he fasted and became very hungry.
2.25.15 Luke 6:12–13a One day soon afterward Jesus went up on a mountain to pray, and He prayed to God
all night. At daybreak He called together all of His disciples and chose twelve of them
to be Apostles.
2.26.15 Mark 1:35 Before daybreak the next morning, Jesus got up and went out to an isolated
place to pray.
2.27.15 Matthew 14:23 After sending them home, He went up into the hills by himself to pray. Night fell while
He was there alone.
2.28.15 Luke 5:16 But Jesus often withdrew to the wilderness for prayer.

3. Celebration
3.1.15 Hebrews 4:14–16 So then, since we have a great High Priest who has entered heaven, Jesus the Son of
God, let us hold firmly to what we believe. This High Priest of ours understands our
weaknesses, for He faced all of the same testings we do, yet He did not sin. So let us
come boldly to the throne of our gracious God. There we will receive His mercy, and we
will find grace to help us when we need it most.
Prayer
3.2.15 Matthew 6:6 But when you pray, go away by yourself, shut the door behind you, and pray to your
Father in private. Then your Father, who sees everything, will reward you.
3.3.15 Philippians 4:6–7 Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need,
and thank Him for all He has done. Then you will experience God’s peace, which
exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as
you live in Christ Jesus.
3.4.15 Acts 1:14 They all met together and were constantly united in prayer, along with Mary the mother
of Jesus, several other women, and the brothers of Jesus.
3.5.15 1 Chronicles 16:11 Search for the Lord and for His strength; continually seek Him.
3.6.15 Colossians 4:2 Devote yourselves to prayer with an alert mind and a thankful heart.
3.7.15 Romans 8:26 And the Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness. For example, we don’t know what God
wants us to pray for. But the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be
expressed in words.
Celebration
3.8.15 Mark 9:9–10 As they went back down the mountain, He told them not to tell anyone what they had
seen until the Son of Man had risen from the dead. So they kept it to themselves, but
they often asked each other what He meant by “rising from the dead.”
Obedience
3.9.15 James 1:22–24 But don’t just listen to God’s word. You must do what it says. Otherwise, you are only
fooling yourselves. For if you listen to the word and don’t obey, it is like glancing at your
face in a mirror. You see yourself, walk away, and forget what you look like.
3.10.15 Matthew 26:39 He went on a little farther and bowed with his face to the ground, praying, “My Father!
If it is possible, let this cup of suffering be taken away from me. Yet I want your will to
be done, not mine.”
3.11.15 Romans 5:19 Because one person disobeyed God, many became sinners. But because one other
Person obeyed God, many will be made righteous.
3.12.15 2 John 1:6 Love means doing what God has commanded us, and He has commanded us to love
one another, just as you heard from the beginning.
3.13.15 Philippians 2:1-2 Is there any encouragement from belonging to Christ? Any comfort from His love?
Any fellowship together in the Spirit? Are your hearts tender and compassionate?
Then make Me truly happy by agreeing wholeheartedly with each other, loving one
another, and working together with one mind and purpose.
3.14.15 1 John 3:24 Those who obey God’s commandments remain in fellowship with Him, and He with
them. And we know He lives in us because the Spirit He gave us lives in us.
Celebration
3.15.15 John 3:16–17 For this is how God loved the world: He gave His one and only Son, so that everyone
who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life. God sent His Son into the world
not to judge the world, but to save the world through Him.

4. Meditation
3.16.15 Philippians 4:8 And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true,
and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that
are excellent and worthy of praise.
3.17.15 2 Corinthians 5:21 For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could
be made right with God through Christ.
3.18.15 Matthew 6:19–21 Don’t store up treasures here on earth, where moths eat them and rust destroys them,
and where thieves break in and steal. Store your treasures in heaven, where moths and
rust cannot destroy, and thieves do not break in and steal. Wherever your treasure is,
there the desires of your heart will also be.
3.19.15 John 10:28–29 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them away from
Me, for My Father has given them to Me, and He is more powerful than anyone else.
No one can snatch them from the Father’s hand.
3.20.15 1 John 3:1–2 See how very much our Father loves us, for He calls us His children, and that is what we
are! But the people who belong to this world don’t recognize that we are God’s children
because they don’t know Him. Dear friends, we are already God’s children, but He has
not yet shown us what we will be like when Christ appears. But we do know that we will
be like Him, for we will see Him as He really is.
3.21.15 John 16:7; 16:13 But in fact, it is best for you that I go away, because if I don’t, the Advocate won’t come.
If I do go away, then I will send Him to you.
When the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on His
own but will tell you what He has heard. He will tell you about the future.
Celebration
3.22.15 John 12:23–24 Jesus replied, “Now the time has come for the Son of Man to enter into His glory. I tell
you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat is planted in the soil and dies, it remains alone.
But its death will produce many new kernels—a plentiful harvest of new lives.”
Forgiveness
3.23.15 Colossians 3:13 Make allowance for each other’s faults, and forgive anyone who offends you.
Remember, the Lord forgave you, so you must forgive others.
3.24.15 Ephesians 4:31–32 Get rid of all bitterness, rage, anger, harsh words, and slander, as well as all types of evil
behavior. Instead, be kind to each other, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as
God through Christ has forgiven you.
3.25.15 1 Corinthians 13:4–6 Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not
demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does
not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out.
3.26.15 Matthew 18: 21–22 Then Peter came to Him and asked, “Lord, how often should I forgive someone who sins
against me? Seven times?”
“No, not seven times,” Jesus replied, “but seventy times seven!"
3.27.15 Romans 12:20 Instead, “If your enemies are hungry, feed them. If they are thirsty, give them something
to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals of shame on their heads.”
3.28.15 2 Corinthians 5:17–19 This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life
is gone; a new life has begun! And all of this is a gift from God, who brought us back
to Himself through Christ. And God has given us this task of reconciling people to Him.
For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself, no longer counting people’s sins
against them. And He gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation.

5. Celebration
3.29.15 John 12:12–13 The next day, the news that Jesus was on the way to Jerusalem swept through the city.
A large crowd of Passover visitors took palm branches and went down the road to meet
Him. They shouted, “Praise God! Blessings on the One who comes in the name of the
Lord! Hail to the King of Israel!”
Service
3.30.15 Isaiah 58:6–7 No, this is the kind of fasting I want: Free those who are wrongly imprisoned; lighten the
burden of those who work for you. Let the oppressed go free, and remove the chains
that bind people.
Share your food with the hungry, and give shelter to the homeless. Give clothes to those
who need them, and do not hide from relatives who need your help.
3.31.15 Mark 9:35 He sat down, called the twelve disciples over to Him, and said, “Whoever wants to be
first must take last place and be the servant of everyone else.”
4.1.15 Philippians 2:5–8 You must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had. Though He was God, He did
not think of equality with God as something to cling to. Instead, He gave up His divine
privileges; He took the humble position of a slave and was born as a human being.
When He appeared in human form, He humbled Himself in obedience to God and died
a criminal’s death on a cross.
Passion
4.2.15 John 13:3–5 Jesus knew that the Father had given Him authority over everything and that He had
come from God and would return to God. So He got up from the table, took off His robe,
wrapped a towel around His waist, and poured water into a basin. Then He began to
wash the disciples’ feet, drying them with the towel He had around Him.
4.3.15 Romans 5:6–10 When we were utterly helpless, Christ came at just the right time and died for us sinners.
Now, most people would not be willing to die for an upright person, though someone
might perhaps be willing to die for a person who is especially good. But God showed
His great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners. And since
we have been made right in God’s sight by the blood of Christ, He will certainly save us
from God’s condemnation. For since our friendship with God was restored by the death
of His Son while we were still His enemies, we will certainly be saved through the life
of His Son.
4.4.15 Psalm 22:22–24 I will proclaim Your name to my brothers and sisters. I will praise You among Your
assembled people. Praise the Lord, all you who fear Him! Honor Him, all you
descendants of Jacob! Show Him reverence, all you descendants of Israel! For He has
not ignored or belittled the suffering of the needy. He has not turned His back on them,
but has listened to their cries for help.
Celebration
4.5.15 Revelation 1:17–18 When I saw Him, I fell at His feet as if I were dead. But He laid His right hand on me and
said, 'Don’t be afraid! I am the First and the Last. I am the living one. I died, but look—I
am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and the grave.
Mission
4.6.15 Matthew 28:19–20 Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of
the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Teach these new disciples to obey all the
commands I have given you. And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end
of the age.
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