Daily Devotion

A Devotion for Tuesday, May 8, 2020 Scripture Reading:  Proverbs 3:5-12 (NRSV)                 5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely on your own insight. 6 In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. 7 Do not be wise in...

A Devotion for Monday, May 11, 2020 Scripture Reading:  Psalm 102:1-17 (NRSV) 1 Hear my prayer, O Lord; let my cry come to you. 2 Do not hide your face from me in the day of my distress. Incline your ear to me; answer me speedily in the day when I call. 3 For my days...

A Devotion for Saturday, May 9, 2020 Scripture Reading:  Jeremiah 26:20-24 (NRSV)                 20 There was another man prophesying in the name of the Lord, Uriah son of Shemaiah from Kiriath-jearim. He prophesied against this city and against this land in words...

A Devotion for Friday, May 8, 2020 Scripture Reading:  Exodus 3:1-12 (NRSV)                 1 Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian; he led his flock beyond the wilderness, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. 2 There the...

A Devotion for Thursday, May 7, 2020 Scripture Reading:  Psalm 31:1-5, 15-16 (NRSV) 1 In you, O Lord, I seek refuge; do not let me ever be put to shame; in your righteousness deliver me. 2 Incline your ear to me; rescue me speedily. Be a rock of refuge for me, a...

A Devotion for Wednesday, May 6, 2020 Scripture Reading:  Jeremiah 23:1-8 (NRSV) Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! says the Lord. 2 Therefore thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, concerning the shepherds who shepherd my people: It...

A Devotion for Tuesday, May 5, 2020 Scripture Reading:  Hebrews 13:20-21 (NRSV)                 20 Now may the God of peace, who brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, 21 make you complete in...

A Devotion for Monday, May 4, 2020 Scripture Reading:  Psalm 100 (NRSV) Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth. 2     Worship the Lord with gladness; come into his presence with singing. 3 Know that the Lord is God. It is he that made us, and we are his;[a] we...

A Devotion for Saturday, May 2, 2020 Scripture Reading:  Ezekiel 34:1-16 (NRSV) The word of the Lord came to me: 2 Mortal, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel: prophesy, and say to them—to the shepherds: Thus says the Lord God: Ah, you shepherds of Israel who...

A Devotion for Friday, May 1, 2020 Scripture Reading:  John 14:8-14 (NRSV) 8 Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and we will be satisfied.” 9 Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you all this time, Philip, and you still do not know me? Whoever has seen me...

A Devotion for Thursday, April 30, 2020 Scripture Reading:  Psalm 23 (NRSV) The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures; he leads me beside still waters; He restores my soul. He leads me in right paths for his name’s sake. Even...

A Devotion for Wednesday, April 29, 2020 Scripture Reading:  Exodus 24:1-11 (NRSV) Then he said to Moses, “Come up to the Lord, you and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and worship at a distance. 2 Moses alone shall come near the Lord; but...

A Devotion for Tuesday, April 28, 2020 Actually, this is a 2-for-1 Day as I missed Monday, so first, here’s Monday’s “Word in Season”:  Scripture Reading:  Psalm 134 (NRSV) 1 Come, bless the Lord, all you servants of the Lord, who stand by night in the house of the...

A Devotion for Saturday, April 25, 2020 Scripture Reading:  Mark 1:1-15 (NRSV)                 1 The beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. 2 As it is written in the prophet Isaiah, "See, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare...

A Devotion for Friday, April 24, 2020 Scripture Reading:  Isaiah 26:1-4 (NRSV)                 1 On that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah:   We have a strong city; he sets up victory like walls and bulwarks. 2 Open the gates, so that the righteous...

A Devotion for Thursday, April 23, 2020 Scripture Reading:  Psalm 116:1-4, 12-19 (NRSV) 1 I love the Lord, because he has heard my voice and my supplications. 2 Because he inclined his ear to me, therefore I will call on him as long as I live. 3 The snares of death...

A Devotion for Wednesday, April 22, 2020 Scripture Reading:  Matthew 12:38-42 (NRSV)                  38 Then some of the scribes and Pharisees said to him, "Teacher, we wish to see a sign from you." 39 But he answered them, "An evil and adulterous generation asks for...

A Devotion for Tuesday, April 21, 2020 Scripture Reading:  1 Corinthians 15:19-28 (NRSV)                  19 If for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied. 20 But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of...

A Devotion for Monday, April 20, 2020 Scripture Reading:  Psalm 114 (NRSV)  1 When Israel went out from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language, 2 Judah became God's sanctuary, Israel his dominion. 3 The sea looked and fled; Jordan turned back....

A Devotion for Saturday, April 18, 2020 Scripture Reading:  Song of Solomon 8:6-7 (NRSV)                  6 Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; for love is strong as death, passion fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a raging...

A Devotion for Friday, April 17, 2020 Scripture Reading:  1 Corinthians 15:1-11 (NRSV)                  1 Now I would remind you, brothers and sisters, of the good news that I proclaimed to you, which you in turn received, in which also you stand, 2 through which also...

A Devotion for Thursday, April 16, 2020 Scripture Reading:  Psalm 16 (NRSV)  1 Protect me, O God, for in you I take refuge. 2 I say to the Lord, "You are my Lord; I have no good apart from you." 3 As for the holy ones in the land, they are the noble, in whom is all my...

A Devotion for Wednesday, April 15, 2020 Scripture Reading:  Matthew 28:1-10 (NRSV)                  1 After the Sabbath, as the first day of the week was dawning, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb. 2 And suddenly there was a great earthquake; for...

A Devotion for Tuesday, April 14, 2020 Scripture Reading:  Colossians 3:12-17 (NRSV)                  12 As God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience. 13 Bear with one another and, if anyone has...

A Devotion for Monday, April 13, 2020 Scripture Reading:  Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24 (NRSV)  1 O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his steadfast love endures forever! 2 Let Israel say, "His steadfast love endures forever." 14 The Lord is my strength and my might; he...

A Devotions for Friday & Saturday, April 10 & 11, 2020 Good Friday Scripture Reading:  John 18:28 - 19:42 (NRSV)                   28 Then they took Jesus from Caiaphas to Pilate's headquarters. It was early in the morning. They themselves did not enter the...

A Devotion for Thursday, April 9, 2020 Scripture Reading:  John 13:1-17, 31b-35 (NRSV)                  1 Now before the festival of the Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart from this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the...

A Devotion for Wednesday, April 8, 2020 Scripture Reading: Isaiah 50:4-9a (NRSV)                 4 The Lord God has given me the tongue of a teacher, that I may know how to sustain the weary with a word. Morning by morning he wakens— wakens my ear to listen as those...

A Devotion for Tuesday, April 7, 2020 Scripture Reading: 1 Corinthians 1:18-31 (NRSV)                 18 For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 19 For it is written,     "I will...

A Devotion for Saturday, April 4, 2020   Scripture Reading:Mark 10:32-34 (NRSV)                32 They were on the road, going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was walking ahead of them; they were amazed, and those who followed were afraid. He took the twelve aside...

A Devotion for Friday, April 3, 2020   Scripture Reading: Philippians 1:21-30 (NRSV)                 21 For to me, living is Christ and dying is gain. 22 If I am to live in the flesh, that means fruitful labor for me; and I do not know which I prefer. 23 I am...

A Devotion for Thursday, April 2, 2020 Scripture Reading: Psalm 31:9-16 (NRSV) 9 Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am in distress; my eye wastes away from grief, my soul and body also. 10 For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength fails...

A Devotion for Wedesday, April 1, 2020 Scripture Reading: Jeremiah 32:1-9, 36-41 (NRSV)                 1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the tenth year of King Zedekiah of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar. 2 At that time the army...

A Devotion for Tuesday, March 31, 2020 Scripture Reading: 2 Kings 4:18-37 (NRSV)                 18 When the child was older, he went out one day to his father among the reapers. 19 He complained to his father, "Oh, my head, my head!" The father said to his servant,...

A Devotion for Monday, March 30, 2020 Scripture Reading: Psalm 143 (NRSV) 1 Hear my prayer, O Lord;  give ear to my supplications in your faithfulness; answer me in your righteousness. 2 Do not enter into judgment with your servant, for no one living is righteous...

A Devotion for Saturday, March 28, 2020 Scripture Reading: Ezekiel 37:1-14 (NRSV)                 1 The hand of the Lord came upon me, and he brought me out by the spirit of the Lord and set me down in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. 2 He led me all...

A Devotion for Friday, March 27, 2020 Scripture Reading: Revelation 11:15-19 (NRSV)             15 Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, "The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Messiah,...

A Devotion for Thursday, March 26, 2020 Scripture Reading: Psalms 130:1-8 (NRSV) 1 Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord. 2 Lord, hear my voice!  Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications! 3 If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, Lord, who could...

A Devotion for Wednesday, March 25, 2020 Scripture Reading: Luke 1:26-38                 26 In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth, 27 to a virgin engaged to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The...

A Devotion for Tuesday, March 24, 2020 Scripture Reading: Isaiah 42:14-21 (NRSV)                 14 For a long time I have held my peace, I have kept still and restrained myself; now I will cry out like a woman in labor, I will gasp and pant. 15 I will lay waste...