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Start Here

Westminster Daily gives you one short reading a day, two or three minutes, 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.

Start today

Any day of the year is a good first day. Dr. Pipa keyed the readings to the calendar, so begin today and you finish a year from today, having read the whole of the Standards. You get every question, in order. Each day’s question stands on its own; no reading depends on the one before it.

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, so you always know where you are in the year.

Get it by email, podcast, or web

• Email. One reading each morning. Subscribe here.
• Podcast. The day’s reading, spoken, in about a minute. On Apple Podcasts, on Spotify, or by podcast 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.
• Text RSS. feed.rss for the daily reading.

You can also browse the Standards by question rather than by date: the Shorter Catechism, the Larger Catechism, and the Confession of Faith.

How Dr. Pipa suggests using it

Dr. Pipa’s recommendations, from his 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.

Read 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. 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.

Where the texts come from

The Confession and Catechisms are in the public domain. The proof texts come from the Orthodox Presbyterian Church’s Confession of Faith and Catechisms. I print them here in the ESV.

If you would rather read the Heidelberg Catechism by Lord’s Day, a companion site, Heidelberg Weekly, covers it week by week.

This site is free and carries no advertising. I am Tim Hopper, and I maintain it.