Tuesday, September 16, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: 1 Chronicles 14-19 Key Verse 1 Chronicles 16:31 — “Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice: and let men say among the nations, The LORD reigneth.” Devotional Thought The chronicler gives us David at the height of his powers, and yet the story keeps … Read more
Monday, September 15, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: 1 Chronicles 9-13 Secondary Reading: Psalms 107 Key Verse 1 Chronicles 11:22 — “Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done many acts; he slew two lionlike men of Moab: also he went down and slew a lion in … Read more
Sunday, September 14, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: 1 Chronicles 3-8 Key Verse 1 Chronicles 6:35 — “The son of Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the son of Mahath, the son of Amasai,” Devotional Thought Today we walk through a long hallway of names — hundreds of them, most unfamiliar to us, some nearly unpronounceable. … Read more
Saturday, September 13, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: 2 Kings 23-25, 1 Chronicles 1-2 Secondary Reading: Psalms 106 Devotional Thought Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and by the time he was a young man he had already begun the work that defines his memory: tearing down the high places, breaking … Read more
Friday, September 12, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: 2 Kings 17-22 Key Verse 2 Kings 19:14 — “And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.” Devotional Thought The northern kingdom of Israel had … Read more
Thursday, September 11, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: 2 Kings 11-16 Secondary Reading: Psalms 105 Key Verse 2 Kings 14:11 — “But Amaziah would not hear. Therefore Jehoash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Bethshemesh, which belongeth to Judah.” Devotional Thought Athaliah, … Read more
Wednesday, September 10, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: 2 Kings 6-10 Key Verse 2 Kings 8:25 — “In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel did Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah begin to reign.” Devotional Thought The sons of the prophets have outgrown their quarters, so they … Read more
Tuesday, September 9, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: 1 Kings 22, 2 Kings 1-5 Devotional Thought Ahab sits on Israel’s throne, and the prophets of Baal eat at Jezebel’s table, but the word of the Lord still speaks. Micaiah, the one prophet Ahab hates because he never prophesies good, tells the truth: the king will … Read more
Monday, September 8, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: 1 Kings 16-21 Secondary Reading: Psalms 104 Key Verse 1 Kings 18:41 — “And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is a sound of abundance of rain.” Devotional Thought The book of Kings reads like a ledger of failure, and these … Read more
Sunday, September 7, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: 1 Kings 11-15 Key Verse 1 Kings 13:12 — “And their father said unto them, What way went he? For his sons had seen what way the man of God went, which came from Judah.” Devotional Thought The morning light of a September Sunday falls on a … Read more
Saturday, September 6, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: 1 Kings 5-10 Secondary Reading: Psalms 103 Key Verse 1 Kings 8:9 — “There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of … Read more
Friday, September 5, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: 2 Samuel 24, 1 Kings 1-4 Devotional Thought The books of Samuel end in a field owned by a Jebusite named Araunah, where David builds an altar to stay a plague. Israel had been numbered in pride, and seventy thousand died; David, who insisted on counting his … Read more