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Start Here

Start Here

Westminster Daily gives you one short reading a day from the Westminster Standards — the Confession of Faith, the Larger Catechism, and the Shorter Catechism. Follow it for a year and you will have read all three, with the proof texts printed in full.

The schedule is Dr. Joseph Pipa Jr.’s Calendar of Readings, which assigns every day of the year.

You can start today

You do not need to wait for January.

The readings are keyed to the calendar, so if you begin on the first of August you will finish on the thirty-first of July having read the whole of the Standards. Nothing is missing and nothing is out of order. Each day’s question stands on its own — you are not walking into the middle of an argument.

On January 1 the plan begins again, and everyone reads the same thing on the same morning: What is the chief and highest end of man? If you would rather begin at the beginning with everyone else, start now anyway and treat January as the second lap.

Every reading carries a day number — day 213 of 365, and so on — so you always know where you are.

How to follow it

• Email. One reading each morning. Subscribe here.
• Podcast. The day’s reading, spoken, in about a minute. On Apple Podcasts or by RSS.
• The web. Today’s reading is always at reformedconfessions.com/westminster-daily. Every day of the year has its own page, and the full plan lists all of them.
• RSS. feed.rss for the daily reading.

If you would rather read the Heidelberg Catechism by Lord’s Day, there is a companion site: Heidelberg Weekly.

How to use it

Dr. Pipa’s own recommendations, from his original plan:

1. Use this calendar along with your daily Bible reading, or with your family in family worship.
2. Read the section for the day, and read the proof texts.
3. Memorize the Shorter Catechism on the days assigned. Review the Shorter Catechism on the Lord’s Day.
4. Select Scripture texts to memorize along with the catechism, and review those on the Lord’s Day as well.

Some catechism questions appear out of numerical order, grouped by theme. The format follows Dr. Morton Smith’s Harmony of the Westminster Confession and Catechisms.

Reading it with others

The plan works well for family worship and for a congregation reading together — everyone is on the same page on the same day, which is most of what makes a shared reading plan work. If you would like to put it in front of your church, get in touch and I will send you something you can hand out.

A note on the texts

The Confession and Catechisms are in the public domain. The proof texts are those of The Confession of Faith and Catechisms published by the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, printed here in the ESV.

This site is free, has no advertising, and is maintained by Tim Hopper.