Daily Devotionals
Past Failures Do Not Determine Future Success
March 8, 2019 DAILY READING Exodus 6:1-13This weekend’s reading: Mark 15:21-24 FIELD NOTESOur story today opens with God declaring: Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh! And then…
I Will
March 7, 2019 DAILY READING Psalm 91This weekend’s reading: Mark 15:21-24 FIELD NOTESOne of the lessons I learn every Lent is the power of letting God be God. Of course,…
What God Is Like
March 6, 2019 DAILY READING Joel 2:1-2, 12-17This weekend’s reading: Mark 15:21-24 FIELD NOTESToday – Ash Wednesday – is the beginning of Lent, which is a penitential season. Penance is a…
Real-Time Faith
March 5, 2019 DAILY READING Psalm 35:11-28This weekend’s reading: Mark 15:21-24 FIELD NOTESOur Psalm passage begins with: Malicious witness rise up; they ask me about things I do not know. …
Stirred Hearts, Willing Spirits
March 4, 2019 DAILY READING Exodus 35:1-29This weekend’s reading: Mark 15:21-24 FIELD NOTESAfter 400 years of slavery in Egypt, the Israelites are being led into freedom and a new kind…
Blessed Are the Eyes that See What You See
March 2, 2019 DAILY READING Psalm 99Deuteronomy 9:15-24Luke 10:21-24This weekend’s reading: Luke 9:28-36 FIELD NOTESReading Moses’ continuing condemnation of the sins of God’s people (Deut 9:15-24) reminded me of Harry…
Prayers and Gifts to the Poor
March 1, 2019 DAILY READING Psalm 99Deuteronomy 9:6-14Acts 10:1-8This weekend’s reading: Luke 9:28-36 FIELD NOTESIn the next section of Deuteronomy 9, Moses goes from sounding like the coach to sounding…
In Perfect Health
February 28, 2019 DAILY READING Psalm 99Deuteronomy 9:1-5Acts 3:11-16This weekend’s reading: Luke 9:28-36 FIELD NOTESToday we begin reading Deuteronomy 9, part of Moses’ farewell address to the wandering Hebrews as…
’Tis Mercy All, Immense and Free
February 27, 2019 DAILY READING Psalm 38Leviticus 5:1-13Luke 17:1-4This weekend’s reading: Luke 9:28-36 FIELD NOTESI confess my iniquity; I am troubled by my sin.Many have become my enemies without cause; . ….
A Meal with Jesus’ Friends
February 26, 2019 DAILY READING Psalm 381 Samuel 24:1-221 Corinthians 11:17-22, 27-38This weekend’s reading: Luke 9:28-36 FIELD NOTESThe daily lectionary offers us a Psalm, a reading from the Hebrew Bible,…