What is the Red Letter Challenge? This Fall, your family is invited to join us on a Lego-themed adventure within the Gospels! The chief focus of the "Red Letter Challenge" is to instill in students a personal appreciation for the daily discipline of spending time in God's word, encountering Jesus in a real and personal way, and establishing a lifelong commitment to personal devotions. The Bible reading plan below affords students the opportunity to work through all four gospels, one chapter each day, over roughly three months.


Why does the Red Letter Challenge use incentives? As students seek to engage this discipline, it can be fun to use extrinsic reminders of the intrinsic worth of this commitment. That's why the Red Letter Challenge presents incentives to students to participate--and, this Fall, those incentives are centered around ever-popular Legos! Below, you can follow the reading plan and use the link on the right to take you to the passage for that day.

How does my student earn the incentives? At the end of each week, after a student has finished all seven chapters for that week, follow the link to submit your student's name, registering them for whatever the incentive is for that particular week. Links and details are found below.


Can we go through the RLC using audio formats? What a great idea! After all, "faith comes by hearing"! Yes, using an audiobook format, you can listen to the 'reading' of the day. Maybe on the way to school in the morning?


Can students join in once the Red Letter Challenge is already underway? Yes! The best time to start reading God's word is today! If a student decides to join the Red Letter Challenge once it is underway, all that they need to do is start with reading the chapter for that day and then keep reading as the challenge progresses--no catch up necessary. Although they may have missed earlier incentives, they are eligible for all but one of the incentives moving forward. The exception will be the final incentive--the trip to the Legoland Discovery Center in Tempe--that particular incentive requires a student to participate in the entire challenge in order to be eligible.


Who can participate? God's word is for EVERYONE! Any Northwest Christian student--Early Ed through High School--can join in the fun! This is open to NCS on-the-ground students, NCS Online students, and NCS Flex students!


Week 1

Wednesday, August 14th - Mark 1

Thursday, August 15th - Mark 2

Friday, August 16th - Mark 3

Saturday, August 17th - Mark 4

Sunday, August 18th - Mark 5

Monday, August 19th - Mark 6

Tuesday, August 20th - Mark 7


Week 2

Wednesday, August 21st - Mark 8

Thursday, August 22nd - Mark 9

Friday, August 23rd - Mark 10

Saturday, August 24th - Mark 11

Sunday, August 25th - Mark 12

Monday, August 26th - Mark 13

Tuesday, August 27th - Mark 14




Week 3

Wednesday, August 28th - Mark 15

Thursday, August 29th - Mark 16

Friday, August 30th - Matthew 1

Saturday, August 31st - Matthew 2

Sunday, September 1st - Matthew 3

Monday, September 2nd - Matthew 4

Tuesday, September 3rd - Matthew 5



Week 4

Wednesday, September 4th - Matthew 6

Thursday, September 5th - Matthew 7

Friday, September 6th - Matthew 8

Saturday, September 7th - Matthew 9

Sunday, September 8th - Matthew 10

Monday, September 9th - Matthew 11

Tuesday, September 10th - Matthew 12

Week 5

Wednesday, September 11th - Matthew 12

Thursday, September 12th - Matthew 13

Friday, September 13th - Matthew 14

Saturday, September 14th - Matthew 15

Sunday, September 15th - Matthew 16

Monday, September 16th - Matthew 17

Tuesday, September 17th - Matthew 18

Week 6

Wednesday, September 18th - Matthew 19

Thursday, September 19th - Matthew 20

Friday, September 20th - Matthew 21

Saturday, September 21st - Matthew 22

Sunday, September 22nd - Matthew 23

Monday, September 23rd - Matthew 24

Tuesday, September 24th - Matthew 25

Week 7

Wednesday, September 25th - Matthew 26

Thursday, September 26th - Matthew 27

Friday, September 27th - Matthew 28

Saturday, September 28th - Luke 1

Sunday, September 29th - Luke 2

Monday, September 30th - Luke 3

Tuesday, October 1st - Luke 4

Week 8

Wednesday, October 2nd - Luke 5

Thursday, October 3rd - Luke 6

Friday, October 4th - Luke 7

Saturday, October 5th - Luke 8

Sunday, October 6th - Luke 9

Monday, October 7th - Luke 10

Tuesday, October 8th - Luke 11

Week 9

Wednesday, October 9th - Luke 12

Thursday, October 10th - Luke 13

Friday, October 11th - Luke 14

Saturday, October 12th - Luke 15

Sunday, October 13th - Luke 16

Monday, October 14th - Luke 17

Tuesday, October 15th - Luke 18

Week 10

Wednesday, October 16th - Luke 19

Thursday, October 17th - Luke 20

Friday, October 18th - Luke 21

Saturday, October 19th - Luke 22

Sunday, October 20th - Luke 23

Monday, October 21st - Luke 24

Tuesday, October 22nd - John 1

Week 11

Wednesday, October 23rd - John 2

Thursday, October 24th - John 3

Friday, October 25th - John 4

Saturday, October 26th - John 5

Sunday, October 27th - John 6

Monday, October 28th - John 7

Tuesday, October 29th - John 8

Week 12

Wednesday, October 30th - John 9

Thursday, October 31st - John 10

Friday, November 1st - John 11

Saturday, November 2nd - John 12

Sunday, November 3rd - John 13

Monday, November 4th - John 14

Tuesday, November 5th - John 15

Week 13

Wednesday, November 6th - John 16

Thursday, November 7th - John 17

Friday, November 8th - John 18

Saturday, November 9th - John 19

Sunday, November 10th - John 20

Monday, November 11th - John 21