The Redemptive JourneyStory, not speed.
Trailhead opens · Tuesday, December 1 Be honest…

Started a Bible reading plan in January and quit by March?

You’re not alone. Most of us have. The readings run long, one busy week puts you behind, and before long the plan feels like a debt you’re always paying down.

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Sound familiar?

It’s usually not a lack of desire. It’s the plan.

“I just couldn’t keep up”

The passages were too long

Four chapters before work sounds good in January. By the third week it’s the first thing you skip.

“I’m six days behind”

Always playing catch-up

Miss a few days and the plan turns into a debt. Reading starts to feel like guilt instead of grace.

“I got stuck in Numbers”

Lost in the lists

The tribes, the counts and the genealogies stall a lot of good intentions somewhere around Leviticus.

“How does it all fit?”

The story feels scattered

You wanted to read it in the order it happened and see how the pieces connect. Most plans don’t help you do that.

The Redemptive Journey · Old Testament

This plan started with that experience and set out to change it.

Story, not speed.

A redemptive-historical, chronological journey through the Old Testament that connects God’s promises, His people’s struggles, and His ultimate promise of a Redeemer.

“The passages were too long.”

Read daily, but lightly.

One manageable passage a day, meant to be read slowly and attentively. No need to rush or master everything.

“I’m always catching up.”

A Grace & Reflection Day every week.

Space for rest, prayer, or lingering in what you’ve read. Miss a day, or a week? Don’t be anxious. Just rejoin where you are.

“I got stuck in the lists.”

The long lists won’t stall you.

When Ezra names every family that came home from exile, the plan reads the opening and the totals (Ezra 2:1–2, 64–70), then keeps walking.

“How does it all fit?”

One story, in the order it unfolds.

Thirteen movements, from creation and fall through promise, redemption, kingdom, exile and restoration, to the promised Messiah and the new creation. Along the way, New Testament readings show where each promise lands in Christ.

Three threads you’ll see come together
His promises

What God says He will do, from the garden to the prophets.

His people’s struggles

Faith and failure, exile and return, told in the order they happened.

A Redeemer

His ultimate promise, carried through every page toward Christ.

What “redemptive-historical” means

The Bible is not a collection of disconnected stories or moral lessons. It is one unfolding story of God’s redemptive work, centered on Jesus Christ. So we read by paying attention to where we are in the story, what God is doing in that moment, and how each part moves us toward Christ.

The trail · thirteen movements · select a waypoint or movement to look ahead
Week 1 · CreationWeek 52 · New Creation

  1. Creation, Fall, and the Need for Redemption Weeks 1–3
  2. God’s Covenant Promise to Abraham Weeks 4–6
  3. Promise Continued Through the Patriarchs Weeks 7–9
  4. Redemption from Egypt Weeks 10–12
  5. Law and Covenant Life Weeks 13–16
  6. Rebellion in the Wilderness Weeks 17–18
  7. Life in the Land and the Need for a King Weeks 19–21
  8. Monarchy and the Davidic Covenant Weeks 22–25
  9. Kingdom Glory, Division and Decline Weeks 26–37
  10. Exile Weeks 38–40
  11. Restoration Weeks 41–44
  12. The Promised Messiah Weeks 45–48
  13. Covenant Renewal and New Creation Weeks 49–52

Each movement lasts as long as the text requires: some only two weeks, the kingdom years twelve. The goal is not to fit Scripture into a rigid calendar, but to let the story shape the pace.

How a week reads

You always know where you are.

The plan is undated. Days are numbered straight through, not tied to the calendar, so you can start any week. Each reading comes with a short reflection to help you see where you are in the story.

Week 2 · When Sin Entered the WorldA sample week · opening lines
  1. Day 8
    Genesis 2:15–17; 3:1–13
    God places Adam in the garden with meaningful work, abundant provision, and a clear command…
  2. Day 9
    Genesis 3:14–19
    God confronts the serpent, the woman, and the man, revealing the consequences of their rebellion…
  3. Day 10
    Genesis 3:20–24
    Adam and Eve must leave the garden, separated from the tree of life and the fellowship they once enjoyed…
  4. Day 11
    Genesis 4:1–16; Psalm 51
    Sin doesn’t remain confined to the garden…
  5. Day 12
    Romans 5:12–21
    Paul helps us understand why Adam’s disobedience matters to every one of us…
  6. Day 13
    Psalm 14
    David describes the reach of human sin with sobering clarity: “There is none who does good, not even one.”…
  7. Day 14
    Grace & Reflection Day
    Consider how the serpent’s question, “Did God actually say?” (Gen 3:1), continues to echo in our lives…
Opens Tuesday, December 1

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A look inside the Digital Companion

Linger a little longer.

Alongside the daily readings, the Companion brings longer reflections from Pastor Kurt: where the story is going, why it matters, and how it meets your life. Only two or three a week, on purpose: enough to help you linger, never so much that you fall behind.

Week 1 · Day 5

The Word Who Made All Things Has Come Near

When we think about creation, we often think of something God did “back then”, or “long ago”, at the beginning of the story. Genesis opens with a familiar and powerful declaration: “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1). By His word, light breaks into darkness, order emerges from chaos, and life begins to flourish.

But Scripture does not leave creation in the past.

This week, we’re invited to see creation through a fuller lens… to recognize that the God who spoke the world into existence has not remained distant from it. He has entered it.

The rest of this reflection is in the Digital Companion.

Later in the journey · Nehemiah 2:1–9

Sent…

Yesterday we read Nehemiah 2, and there’s a tiny detail in it that’s massive in significance. It caused me to continue to ponder to the point I wanted to share it with you today.

When Nehemiah finally gets his chance to speak to the king, he doesn’t say, “Let me go.” He doesn’t say, “I’ve decided to go.” He says, “…that you send me to Judah” (v5).

Nehemiah understood the authority he had been placed under. He was a servant who needed to be sent. And he understood that being sent mattered: it meant the mission wasn’t his alone. It carried the weight and backing of the one who sent him.

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As followers of Jesus, I think we often forget that we have been sent.

We think of ourselves as saved, as forgiven, as loved… and we are. But Jesus said, “As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you” (John 20:21). You didn’t stumble into your neighborhood, your workplace, your family. You’ve been sent there, under the authority of the One who holds all authority in heaven and on earth (Matthew 28:18). And just like Nehemiah, it’s not just that we’re sent… we’re equipped.

Look at what Nehemiah receives. Letters for safe passage (v7). Timber for the gates, the wall, and his own house (v8). Army officers and horsemen to go with him (v9). The king gave him EVERYTHING he would need for the work he was sent to do. And notice Nehemiah’s own explanation for it: “the king granted me what I asked, for the good hand of my God was upon me” (v8).

If an earthly king could supply a sent servant that fully… how much better is it for us, who have been sent by the heavenly King?

Peter tells us that “His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness” (2 Peter 1:3). You have His Word. You have His Spirit. You have His people. You have His promise: “I am with you always.”

So today, don’t walk out the door as someone merely trying to do good. Walk out as someone who has been sent… and who has been given everything needed for the road ahead.

Pray: King Jesus, remind me today that I am sent by You. Open my eyes to where You’ve placed me, and give me faith to trust that You have supplied all I need for the work You’ve given. Amen.

Pastor Kurt
A short thought · Psalm 33:12

Even though the reading plan suggested stopping at verse 11 of Psalm 33, I couldn’t help but linger on verse 12: “Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people whom he has chosen as his heritage.”

What strikes me is how personal this blessing is. God’s counsel doesn’t just stand forever in the abstract… it stands over us, for us, on our behalf.

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We are the people He has chosen. Not because we were impressive. Not because we figured things out. But because of His grace. He simply chose us…

That means our lives are not accidental. Our faith is not fragile. And our future is not uncertain in the way the world’s is.

We are richly blessed, though not always comfortable, not always spared difficulty, but deeply, covenantally, securely blessed as His children.

May that realization cause us all to slow down… and be amazed by His grace!

Pastor Kurt
Before December 1

Start with Week 1.

Seven days, from Genesis 1 to John 1, with a Grace & Reflection Day to close the week. A free PDF, yours to keep, with a page from the Digital Companion.

  1. Day 1Genesis 1:1–13
  2. Day 2Genesis 1:14–31
  3. Day 3Psalm 104
  4. Day 4John 1:1–14
  5. Day 5Colossians 1:15–20; Hebrews 1:1–4
  6. Day 6Psalm 33:1–11; Proverbs 8:22–31; Genesis 2:1–3
  7. Day 7Grace & Reflection
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About

Why this plan exists.

The Redemptive Journey began as a plan for one congregation. We built it because we believe Scripture forms us best through story, not speed.

Many Bible reading plans unintentionally create pressure to keep up, to catch up, or simply to check a box. Over time, that pressure can lead to discouragement. This plan is meant to cultivate attentiveness to God’s Word, delight rather than duty, and Christ-centered formation. The goal is not to read more Bible, but to love God’s Word more deeply.

Kurt and Sheila Aichele with their five childrenWritten by

Pastor Kurt Aichele

Kurt serves as a pastor and elder at Redemption Fellowship in Colorado Springs, the church he and his wife, Sheila, helped replant in 2006. He studied at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. Kurt and Sheila have five children.

“God is not in a hurry, and neither should we be when listening to His Word.”

From the plan’s introduction
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