Friday, October 10, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Proverbs 16 Secondary Reading: Psalms 117 Key Verse Proverbs 16:17 — “The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul.” Devotional Thought Solomon, the wisest king of Israel, writes Proverbs 16 as a series of contrasts between human … Read more
Thursday, October 9, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Proverbs 14-15 Key Verse Proverbs 14:35 — “The king’s favour is toward a wise servant: but his wrath is against him that causeth shame.” Devotional Thought Solomon’s collection of proverbs in these two chapters reads like a walk through an ancient village, past doorways where wisdom and … Read more
Wednesday, October 8, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Proverbs 13 Key Verse Proverbs 13:13 — “Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed: but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded.” Devotional Thought Proverbs 13 reads like a father’s steady voice across the kitchen table, naming the two roads set before his son and the … Read more
Tuesday, October 7, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Proverbs 11-12 Secondary Reading: Psalms 116 Key Verse Proverbs 11:30 — “The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.” Devotional Thought Solomon’s proverbs are not abstract philosophy but the accumulated wisdom of a king who watched men and … Read more
Monday, October 6, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Proverbs 9-10 Key Verse Proverbs 10:8 — “The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.” Devotional Thought Two houses stand in this passage, and both of them call out to the same person—the simple one, the one who lacks understanding. Wisdom has … Read more
Sunday, October 5, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Proverbs 8 Secondary Reading: Psalms 115 Key Verse Proverbs 8:19 — “My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver.” Devotional Thought Wisdom is not hidden in a scholar’s study; she stands in the street. In Proverbs 8, she cries … Read more
Saturday, October 4, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Proverbs 6-7 Key Verse Proverbs 6:32 — “But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.” Devotional Thought Solomon opens this portion of Proverbs with a warning against striking hands with a stranger—the ancient practice of pledging oneself as … Read more
Friday, October 3, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Proverbs 4-5 Key Verse Proverbs 4:26 — “Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.” Devotional Thought The scene in Proverbs 4–5 is a father teaching his son—and he begins by remembering that he himself was once “my father’s son, tender and … Read more
Thursday, October 2, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Proverbs 3 Secondary Reading: Psalms 114 Key Verse Proverbs 3:18 — “She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.” Devotional Thought Solomon writes to his son as a father who has watched the world … Read more
Wednesday, October 1, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Proverbs 1-2 Key Verse Proverbs 1:28 — “Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:” Devotional Thought The book of Proverbs opens not with a list of rules but with a father’s voice. … Read more
Tuesday, September 30, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Esther 5-10 Secondary Reading: Psalms 113 Key Verse Esther 8:8 — “Write ye also for the Jews, as it liketh you, in the king’s name, and seal it with the king’s ring: for the writing which is written in the king’s name, and sealed with the king’s … Read more
Monday, September 29, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Nehemiah 13, Esther 1-4 Devotional Thought Nehemiah has been away. After twelve years as governor in Jerusalem, he returns to Persia to report to King Artaxerxes, and when he comes back to the city he finds the house of God neglected, the Levites unpaid and fled to … Read more