Tuesday, May 6, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Genesis 16-18 Key Verse Genesis 17:23 — “And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham’s house; and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame … Read more
Monday, May 5, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Genesis 13-15 Secondary Reading: Psalms 52 Key Verse Genesis 14:14 — “And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan.” Devotional Thought Abram comes up out of … Read more
Sunday, May 4, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Genesis 10-12 Key Verse Genesis 11:11 — “And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.” Devotional Thought Genesis 10-12 traces the great scattering and the great calling. The sons of Noah multiply into the nations—Japheth’s isles, Ham’s Babel and Nineveh, … Read more
Saturday, May 3, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Genesis 7-9 Key Verse Genesis 8:14 — “And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.” Devotional Thought The rain began on the seventeenth day of the second month, in the six hundredth year of Noah’s life. He … Read more
Friday, May 2, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Genesis 4-6 Secondary Reading: Psalms 51 Key Verse Genesis 5:15 — “And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared:” Devotional Thought Genesis 4 opens with worship and ends with a murder. Cain and Abel, the first brothers born into a world already fractured by sin, … Read more
Thursday, May 1, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Genesis 1-3 Key Verse Genesis 2:10 — “And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.” Devotional Thought The Bible opens not with an argument but with a song of beginnings: “In the beginning … Read more
Wednesday, April 30, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Revelation 22 Secondary Reading: Psalms 50 Key Verse Revelation 22:11 — “He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him … Read more
Tuesday, April 29, 2025 Scripture Readings Devotional Thought The reading plan rests today, and so the assigned passage is empty. That emptiness is itself worth noticing, because it places us in good company. Scripture is full of holy pauses. Between the last verse of Deuteronomy and the first of Matthew, four hundred silent years stretch … Read more
Monday, April 28, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Revelation 21 Key Verse Revelation 21:14 — “And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.” Devotional Thought John, exiled on the island of Patmos, lifts his eyes from the worn parchment of his visions … Read more
Sunday, April 27, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Revelation 20 Secondary Reading: Psalms 49 Key Verse Revelation 20:8 — “And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog, and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the … Read more
Saturday, April 26, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Revelation 19 Key Verse Revelation 19:11 — “And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.” Devotional Thought The nineteenth chapter of Revelation opens not with … Read more
Friday, April 25, 2025 Scripture Readings Secondary Reading: Psalms 48 Devotional Thought The sons of Korah, temple singers who knew Jerusalem’s stones as intimately as their own songs, here celebrate a city that has just survived a siege. The kings of the earth assembled against Mount Zion; they looked, they marveled, they were troubled, and … Read more