Monday, August 11, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Judges 3-4 Key Verse Judges 3:28 — “And he said unto them, Follow after me: for the LORD hath delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand. And they went down after him, and took the fords of Jordan toward Moab, and suffered not a man to … Read more
Sunday, August 10, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Joshua 24, Judges 1-2 Secondary Reading: Psalms 92 Devotional Thought The book of Joshua closes with an old man gathering a nation to himself one last time. Joshua, who had watched Jericho’s walls fall and had led Israel through years of conquest, summons the tribes to Shechem … Read more
Saturday, August 9, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Joshua 22-23 Key Verse Joshua 22:26 — “Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice:” Devotional Thought The fighting is over, and Joshua gathers the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh to send them … Read more
Friday, August 8, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Joshua 19-21 Secondary Reading: Psalms 91 Key Verse Joshua 20:2 — “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Appoint out for you cities of refuge, whereof I spake unto you by the hand of Moses:” Devotional Thought The land of Canaan is being divided by lot, and … Read more
Thursday, August 7, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Joshua 16-18 Key Verse Joshua 18:1 — “And the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together at Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle of the congregation there. And the land was subdued before them.” Devotional Thought The book of Joshua turns a corner in these … Read more
Wednesday, August 6, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Joshua 14-15 Key Verse Joshua 15:25 — “And Hazor, Hadattah, and Kerioth, and Hezron, which is Hazor,” Devotional Thought The book of Joshua opens its final movement not with trumpet blasts but with a surveyor’s line and a ledger of names. Eleazar the priest, Joshua the son … Read more
Tuesday, August 5, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Joshua 11-13 Secondary Reading: Psalms 90 Key Verse Joshua 12:18 — “The king of Aphek, one; the king of Lasharon, one;” Devotional Thought The northern campaign begins with a coalition of kings gathering at the waters of Merom, “much people, even as the sand that is upon … Read more
Monday, August 4, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Joshua 9-10 Key Verse Joshua 10:9 — “Joshua therefore came unto them suddenly, and went up from Gilgal all night.” Devotional Thought The Gibeonites come to Joshua at Gilgal with a lie strapped to their backs: old sacks, rent wineskins, clouted shoes, and bread gone dry and … Read more
Sunday, August 3, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Joshua 6-8 Secondary Reading: Psalms 89 Key Verse Joshua 7:18 — “And he brought his household man by man; and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was taken.” Devotional Thought The walls of Jericho stood … Read more
Saturday, August 2, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Joshua 4-5 Key Verse Joshua 4:20 — “And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan, did Joshua pitch in Gilgal.” Devotional Thought The people of Israel stand at the threshold of promise. After forty years of wilderness wandering, the Jordan River lies behind them, and … Read more
Friday, August 1, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Joshua 1-3 Key Verse Joshua 2:12 — “Now therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by the LORD, since I have shewed you kindness, that ye will also shew kindness unto my father’s house, and give me a true token:” Devotional Thought Moses is dead, and the … Read more
Thursday, July 31, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Deuteronomy 33-34 Secondary Reading: Psalms 88 Key Verse Deuteronomy 33:21 — “And he provided the first part for himself, because there, in a portion of the lawgiver, was he seated; and he came with the heads of the people, he executed the justice of the LORD, and … Read more