Daily Devotionals

DAILY READING Psalm 102 2 Kings 4 Matthew 9:18-26 Acts 3:1-10 FIELD NOTES Have you ever had one of those days, or weeks, or months where you just find yourself…

DAILY READING Luke 19:41-44 FIELD NOTES This morning I glanced through some headlines in the news.  Far too many of them spoke of war, violence and genocide. In this passage in Luke,…

DAILY READING Zechariah 7:9-10 FIELD NOTES Each of our daily readings this week focused on how to live out our Christian faith. We’ve learned that our faith grows hands and feet…

DAILY READING Isaiah 1:17 FIELD NOTES Our reading for today is one short verse: “learn to do good; seek justice; rescue the oppressed, defend the orphan, plead for the widow.”…

DAILY READING Psalm 72:12-14 FIELD NOTES Psalm 72 describes the reign of an ideal king and may have been originally used at a coronation or at the annual commemoration of…

DAILY READING Matthew 22:15-22 FIELD NOTES In today’s reading, Jesus’ enemies sought to trip him up with a trick question, a question designed to make Jesus offend someone with his…

DAILY READING Acts 6:1-7 FIELD NOTES My mother-in-law had a clever way of solving disputes between her two children when it came time to divvy up the last pieces of…

DAILY READING Mark 1:14-20 FIELD NOTES Every time I read this section of Mark, I can’t help but to imagine what was going through the heads of the apostles when…

DAILY READING John 1:14 FIELD NOTES Sometimes the hardest part of a journey is just after you begin – when things become routine, when the novelty wears off, when the…

DAILY READING Matthew 5:13-16 FIELD NOTES Howard Thurman, explains in his poem, The Work of Christmas, that is it now, after the celebrations, that the work we are called to as…