Ecclesiastes · Five days a week
Reading Plan
September 20, 2026 – January 31, 2027
Each week has five readings, Monday through Friday, that prepare you for the passage being preached that Sunday.
Monday is always the sermon text. Some weeks it comes with a short passage that gives you the background you need. Tuesday through Thursday follow the same thread through the rest of Scripture. Friday brings you back to the sermon passage with a New Testament text beside it.
Under each reading is one sentence telling you why it is there, and one question to carry into the day. By Sunday you will have read the passage twice and lived with it for a week. That is the whole goal.
This plan is for the whole church. It assumes an adult reader, but nothing in it is out of reach for a student — a household can read the same passage on the same day and talk about it at the same table.
All twenty weeks
- Week 1Ecclesiastes 1:1–11September 20Week 1Ecclesiastes 1:1–11Opens Sep 13
- Week 2Ecclesiastes 1:12–18September 27Week 2Ecclesiastes 1:12–18Opens Sep 20
- Week 3Ecclesiastes 2:1–11October 4Week 3Ecclesiastes 2:1–11Opens Sep 27
- Week 4Ecclesiastes 2:12–26October 11Week 4Ecclesiastes 2:12–26Opens Oct 4
- Week 5Ecclesiastes 3:1–15October 18Week 5Ecclesiastes 3:1–15Opens Oct 11
- Week 6Ecclesiastes 3:16 – 4:3October 25Week 6Ecclesiastes 3:16 – 4:3Opens Oct 18
- Week 7Ecclesiastes 4:4–16November 1Week 7Ecclesiastes 4:4–16Opens Oct 25
- Week 8Ecclesiastes 5:1–7November 8Week 8Ecclesiastes 5:1–7Opens Nov 1
- Week 9Ecclesiastes 5:8 – 6:12November 15Week 9Ecclesiastes 5:8 – 6:12Opens Nov 8
- Week 10Missions Sunday — special guestNovember 22Week 10Missions Sunday — special guestOpens Nov 15
- Week 11Advent — Hope · Luke 1:67–75November 29Week 11Advent — Hope · Luke 1:67–75Opens Nov 22
- Week 12Advent — Peace · Luke 1:76–79December 6Week 12Advent — Peace · Luke 1:76–79Opens Nov 29
- Week 13Advent — Joy · Luke 1:39–49December 13Week 13Advent — Joy · Luke 1:39–49Opens Dec 6
- Week 14Advent — Love · Luke 1:50–56December 20Week 14Advent — Love · Luke 1:50–56Opens Dec 13
- Week 15Ecclesiastes 7:1–29December 27Week 15Ecclesiastes 7:1–29Opens Dec 20
- Week 16Ecclesiastes 8:1–17January 3Week 16Ecclesiastes 8:1–17Opens Dec 27
- Week 17Ecclesiastes 9:1–12January 10Week 17Ecclesiastes 9:1–12Opens Jan 3
- Week 18Ecclesiastes 9:13 – 10:20January 17Week 18Ecclesiastes 9:13 – 10:20Opens Jan 10
- Week 19Ecclesiastes 11:1–10January 24Week 19Ecclesiastes 11:1–10Opens Jan 17
- Week 20Ecclesiastes 12:1–14January 31Week 20Ecclesiastes 12:1–14Opens Jan 24
The Marks of a Disciple
Each week names one of these. A follower of Jesus is a disciple — a learner, a student, an apprentice — and these are the practices we are cultivating in each other.
- Daily DevotionTime with God every day, in the Bible and in prayer.
- PrayerNot only a set appointment, but a life of prayer at any hour, for anything.
- GenerosityGiving your effort and your resources to this church and to God’s kingdom.
- ServiceGiving your time and talent to the church and its mission in the community.
- WitnessSeeking people far from God and telling them about Jesus and about your own finding of him.
- WorshipWeekly praise together, and a life presented daily to God’s service.
- Spiritual DisciplinesFasting, solitude, study, sabbath — the old practices of the faith.
The 3 Circles
This is how we tell someone about Jesus — simple enough to draw on a napkin. Each week names the part of it that week’s reading sits in. Ecclesiastes spends most of its twelve chapters in the second circle and on the jagged arrows running out of it.
- God’s Design — The world and your life as God made them to be.
- Sin — The arrow out. We each go our own way instead.
- Brokenness — Where that leaves us. Ecclesiastes spends most of twelve chapters here.
- Repent & Believe — Turning from our own way and trusting what Jesus did.
- Gospel — Jesus lived the life we could not and died the death we deserved.
- Recover & Pursue — The way back toward the life God designed.
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