Tuesday, December 9, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Matthew 24-26 Key Verse Matthew 25:36 — “Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.” Devotional Thought Jesus leaves the temple for the last time, and His disciples pause to admire the buildings—Herod’s magnificent … Read more
Monday, December 8, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Matthew 21-23 Key Verse Matthew 22:20 — “And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription?” Devotional Thought The road slopes down from the Mount of Olives toward Jerusalem, and on it comes a King riding a borrowed donkey with her colt trailing behind. The … Read more
Sunday, December 7, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Matthew 18-20 Secondary Reading: Psalms 141 Key Verse Matthew 19:15 — “And he laid his hands on them, and departed thence.” Devotional Thought The disciples came to Jesus with a question that has never quite left the human heart: Who is the greatest in the kingdom of … Read more
Saturday, December 6, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Matthew 15-17 Key Verse Matthew 16:9 — “Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?” Devotional Thought The scribes and Pharisees travel from Jerusalem to confront Jesus about unwashed hands, but the quarrel quickly … Read more
Friday, December 5, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Matthew 12-14 Secondary Reading: Psalms 140 Key Verse Matthew 13:23 — “But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.” Devotional Thought The Sabbath … Read more
Thursday, December 4, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Matthew 10-11 Key Verse Matthew 10:37 — “He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.” Devotional Thought Jesus gathers His twelve disciples and gives them authority … Read more
Wednesday, December 3, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Matthew 7-9 Key Verse Matthew 8:22 — “But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.” Devotional Thought The Sermon on the Mount ends, and immediately the crowds are on the move. Jesus comes down from the mountain with His authority still … Read more
Tuesday, December 2, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Matthew 4-6 Secondary Reading: Psalms 139 Key Verse Matthew 5:29 — “And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be … Read more
Monday, December 1, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Matthew 1-3 Key Verse Matthew 2:8 — “And he sent them to Bethlehem, and said, Go and search diligently for the young child; and when ye have found him, bring me word again, that I may come and worship him also.” Devotional Thought Matthew opens his Gospel … Read more
Sunday, November 30, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Zechariah 12-14, Malachi 1-4 Secondary Reading: Psalms 138 Devotional Thought Zechariah closes his prophecy with the siege of Jerusalem, and the picture is desperate before it is glorious. All the nations of the earth gather against Judah; the city is taken, houses are rifled, and half the … Read more
Saturday, November 29, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Zechariah 6-11 Key Verse Zechariah 8:21 — “And the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to pray before the LORD, and to seek the LORD of hosts: I will go also.” Devotional Thought Zechariah’s night visions end with four chariots … Read more
Friday, November 28, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Haggai 1-2, Zechariah 1-5 Devotional Thought The year is 520 B.C., and the remnant of Judah has come home from Babylon to a city of rubble. Under Zerubbabel the governor and Joshua the high priest, they have rebuilt their own paneled houses while the house of the … Read more