Old Testament Books

This 16th installment of our Reading with the People of God plan invites you into the voices of the Minor Prophets—Hosea through Nahum—calling God’s people to return with sincerity and trust. Paired with the Gospel of Mark, we’ll hear Christ’s invitation to repentance and renewed faith. Each day includes readings from Psalms, the Old Testament, and the New Testament, with a brief devotional primer.

May these readings draw you nearer to the Lord, awaken your heart to His mercy, and echo His faithful call: “Return to Me.”

RETURN to ME: Reading With the People of God #16

Hosea is all about Jesus! This 7-day plan will walk you through the book of Hosea by reading just a chapter or two a day. Each day is accompanied by a short devotional and video that explains what’s happening and shows you how each part of the story points to Jesus and his Gospel.

Jesus in All of Hosea - a Video Devotional

Daily Bible Reading is designed to facilitate consistent interaction with Scripture. It includes background information on each day’s Scripture passage, key verses for meditation, reflection questions to help you dive deeper into Scripture, and prayers to help you connect to God and be of spiritual support to others. Journey with us this month as we explore the theme, “God’s Saving Word: Mercy and Forgiveness.” [Scriptures are quoted in the GNT.]

Daily Bible Reading – July 2023, God’s Saving Word: Mercy and Forgiveness

Francine Rivers’s novel Redeeming Love draws on themes from the biblical story of Hosea and Gomer to remind us of God’s passionate, sacrificial, and unchanging love. In this 5-day devotional, Rivers takes us deep into Scripture as together we explore that incredible love and consider how God longs to redeem the pain of our past as we draw closer to Him.

Redeeming Love: A 5-Day Devotional by Francine Rivers

This is a devotional for women about the Book of Hosea.

Come and Return

Daily Bible Reading is designed to facilitate consistent interaction with Scripture. It includes background information on each day’s Scripture passage and key verse for meditation, reflection questions to help you dive deeper into Scripture, a prayer and prayer concern to help you connect to God and be of spiritual support to others. Journey with us this month as we explore the theme “God’s Word of Mercy and Forgiveness.”

Daily Bible Reading – April 2021, God’s Word of Mercy and Forgiveness

The twelve minor prophets exist on the same scroll, and are woven together in various ways. Hosea, Joel, and Amos are the first of these twelve prophets. Dive into this seven-day reading plan to get a feel for how God admonishes his people to return to him.

BibleProject | God Addresses His People

What is Biblical reconciliation, and why do we need it? In this short 3-day devotional, you will learn what reconciliation truly means. As God's people, we have a responsibility to stand out and stand in the gap, bridging the way for people to come back to their Creator.

RECONCILIATION

God used Hosea to powerfully communicate His anguish towards the nation of Israel due to their continued idol worship. Hosea’s life and ministry show both the heart-breaking cost of idolatry as well as the lengths to which God will go to redeem His sinful people back to Him. This book reminds us that despite our sinful idolatry, God is always faithful.

Faithful: A Study in Hosea

Daily Bible Reading is designed to facilitate consistent interaction with Scripture. It includes background information on each day’s Scripture passage and key verse for meditation, reflection questions to help you dive deeper into Scripture, a prayer and prayer concern to help you connect to God and be of spiritual support to others. Journey with us this month as we explore the theme “God’s Life-Giving Word of Forgiveness and Mercy.”

Daily Bible Reading - August 2020 God's Life-Giving Word of Forgiveness and Mercy

God’s relationship with the nation of Israel is a love story spanning centuries. In this 5-day plan, we’ll explore a rocky time between God and his chosen people and see how the prophet Hosea’s warnings for the nation remain relevant for us today.

Hosea: His Redeeming Love

Reflect on the books of the Minor Prophets through powerfully crafted images and helpful questions to reflect upon.

Seeing the Minor Prophets

This devotion taken from the book of Hosea will equip you with biblical truths and guide you to practice it daily as you continue your walk of faith in Christ.


Book of Hosea

This plan will guide young readers through the Bible daily. New understanding will be revealed through the concise and child-friendly devotional. Children will understand that every part of the Bible is meaningful and relevant to their lives. Ultimately, this devotional will guide them to live daily in God's way.

Bible Explorer for the Young (Hosea)

Living in the catastrophic final days of the northern kingdom, Hosea prophesies to the people with God’s warnings of rebellion and His promises of blessing for repentance. Hosea’s marriage and showing forgiveness to his adulterous wife Gomer point us to one ironclad assurance in Jesus Christ: God remains faithful even when we are not. God is ready to forgive the moment we run back to him. 

Through the Bible: Hosea

Hosea

In the beginning was the Word … but what came next? This plan is for anyone who wants a better understanding of the Bible. It provides a chronological reading program that endeavors to place all biblical passages in their date order. Part Six of this twelve-part one-year reading plan is titled ‘The Nation Rebels, Divides and Declines, 975 BC–730 BC’.

Reading the Bible in Historical Sequence Part 6

Vance K. Jackson leads readers in this powerful, wisdom-packed devotional. God will finish what He has started in You. He will revive and restore what the enemy has stolen. The years of delay, decay, and destruction — God is faithful to restore what the locust, the cankerworm, the caterpillar, and the palmerworm has stolen. God is in control. Let God lead your heart as you read this timely message.

Revival

This is a monthly Bible reading program for one year. You may also join this program through audio Bible by listening to it for about 20 minutes daily. Let's be more active in reading the word of God every day.

Bible Yearly Plan for May

Joel is all about Jesus! This 3-day plan will walk you through the book of Joel by reading just a chapter or two a day. Each day is accompanied by a short devotional and video that explains what’s happening and shows you how each part of the story points to Jesus and his Gospel.

Jesus in All of Joel - A Video Devotional

Discover the art of grieving in this six-day Study through the book of Joel. Learn practical handles to navigate grief, find a renewed perspective to view your pain, and learn to see Jesus in the midst of it all. In studying this book, you will find that God promises that you are going to be alright and (spoiler alert) the best is still to come. 

It's Going to Be Alright (The Art of Grieving): 6 Days Through the Book of Joel

Joel’s prophecy, “The day of the Lord,” is like a double-edged sword; it’s about God’s wrath to the disobedient and God’s salvation to the obedient. It speaks of an imminent judgment of Judah and an eschatological consummation of God’s Kingdom in Jesus’ second coming. Amidst his horrific warnings, Joel comforts God’s people with this promise, “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” 

Through the Bible: Joel

Joel’s prophetic work aimed to bring warning of God’s coming judgment over Israel. The book points towards a coming “day of the Lord” when God will judge all the earth. God invites his people to repent and return to Him, reminding them He is “gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love” (Joel 2:13).   

Return to the Lord: A Study in Joel

This devotion taken from Book of Joel will equip you with biblical truths and guide you to practice it daily as you continue your walk of faith in Christ.


Book of Joel

Devastating locust plague. Amazing outpouring of the Holy Spirit. The prophecy of Joel carries some of the Bible’s most vivid and stirring images, and they all come together in one of its most crucial themes: The Day of the Lord. Join TTW’s Melanie Hurlbut for clear explanation and compelling storytelling as we explore this remarkable day when the Lord will judge the nations, restore justice, and renew all creation.

Joel Explained | Day of the Lord

Joel

Bible Yearly Plan for June

Amos is all about Jesus! This 4-day plan will walk you through the book of Amos by reading just a chapter or two a day. Each day is accompanied by a short devotional and video that explains what’s happening and shows you how each part of the story points to Jesus and his Gospel.

Jesus in All of Amos - A Video Devotional

Daily Bible Reading is designed to facilitate consistent interaction with Scripture. It includes background information on each day’s Scripture passage, key verse for meditation, reflection questions to help you dive deeper into Scripture, and a prayer and prayer concern to help you connect to God and be of spiritual support to others. Journey with us this month as we explore the theme “God’s Word of Justice.”

Daily Bible Reading – October 2021: God’s Word of Justice

Written by the shepherd-prophet Amos, this book exposes Israel's sinful religious hypocrisy and corrupt leadership. Amos prophesies against their rejection of God's law and the terrible social injustice perpetrated against the poor and vulnerable. As Amos foretells judgment on many nations, including Israel, we are reminded of the ultimate need for restoration and the promise of greater redemption. 

Justice: A Study in Amos

God sent Amos, a southern peasant, to prophesy to the prosperous yet unscrupulous northern kingdom. Instead of being God’s chosen people to bless others, Israel embraced injustice, hypocrisy, and materialism. As a result of God’s judgment, the nation perished during the Assyrian invasion in the late 8th century. The book’s message is straightforward: Christians are chosen not only for the privilege but also for the responsibility to bless the needy.

Through the Bible: Amos

This devotion from Book of Amos will equip you with biblical truths and guide you to practice it daily as you continue your walk of faith in Christ.

Book of Amos

Amos is often called a prophet of doom. When you begin to read his prophecy, it doesn’t take long to realize that nickname fits. On the surface, his prophecy doesn’t sound like a happy formula for the good life. However, every condemnation he gives serves as an invitation, a cry for us to “seek God and live” (Amos 5:4). This kind of living will bring us peace and true prosperity. 

Amos: An Invitation to the Good Life

Discover how the prophet Amos, a simple man, was used by God to confront false worship and injustice. Let us together explore the unlikely calling of Amos and the timeless lessons about true worship of God and the pursuit of divine justice.

Amos, an Unlikely Prophet

Join us as we dive into our Summer Bible Project where we will be reading through the Minor Prophets. 

Old Testament Books

Hosea

RETURN to ME: Reading With the People of God #16

Jesus in All of Hosea - a Video Devotional

Daily Bible Reading – July 2023, God’s Saving Word: Mercy and Forgiveness

Redeeming Love: A 5-Day Devotional by Francine Rivers

Come and Return

Daily Bible Reading – April 2021, God’s Word of Mercy and Forgiveness

BibleProject | God Addresses His People

RECONCILIATION

Faithful: A Study in Hosea

Daily Bible Reading - August 2020 God's Life-Giving Word of Forgiveness and Mercy

Hosea: His Redeeming Love

Seeing the Minor Prophets

Book of Hosea

Bible Explorer for the Young (Hosea)

Through the Bible: Hosea

Joel

RETURN to ME: Reading With the People of God #16

Reading the Bible in Historical Sequence Part 6

Revival

Bible Yearly Plan for May

Jesus in All of Joel - A Video Devotional

BibleProject | God Addresses His People

It's Going to Be Alright (The Art of Grieving): 6 Days Through the Book of Joel

Through the Bible: Joel

Return to the Lord: A Study in Joel

Book of Joel

Joel Explained | Day of the Lord

Amos

RETURN to ME: Reading With the People of God #16

Bible Yearly Plan for June

Jesus in All of Amos - A Video Devotional

BibleProject | God Addresses His People

Daily Bible Reading – October 2021: God’s Word of Justice

Justice: A Study in Amos

Through the Bible: Amos

Book of Amos

Amos: An Invitation to the Good Life

Amos, an Unlikely Prophet

Summer Bible Project- the Minor Prophets