Monday, March 31, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: 3 John 1, Jude 1 Devotional Thought The two letters appointed for today are the shortest in the New Testament, and both are concerned with the same quiet crisis: how God’s people treat one another when no one is watching. In 3 John, the elder writes to … Read more
Sunday, March 30, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: 2 John 1 Key Verse 2 John 1:7 — “For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.” Devotional Thought The aged apostle John, writing near the end of the … Read more
Saturday, March 29, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: 1 John 4-5 Secondary Reading: Psalms 37 Key Verse 1 John 5:1 — “Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.” Devotional Thought John writes to a scattered … Read more
Friday, March 28, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: 1 John 2-3 Key Verse 1 John 2:27 — “But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, … Read more
Thursday, March 27, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: 1 John 1 Secondary Reading: Psalms 36 Key Verse 1 John 1:6 — “If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:” Devotional Thought John opens his first epistle not with a greeting but with a … Read more
Wednesday, March 26, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: 2 Peter 2-3 Key Verse 2 Peter 2:21 — “For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.” Devotional Thought Peter writes his second letter with … Read more
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: 1 Peter 5, 2 Peter 1 Devotional Thought Peter writes his first letter to scattered exiles in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia — believers far from home, some facing real persecution. In chapter 5 he turns to the elders among them and asks them to shepherd … Read more
Monday, March 24, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: 1 Peter 4 Secondary Reading: Psalms 35 Key Verse 1 Peter 4:10 — “As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.” Devotional Thought Peter writes to scattered believers in Asia Minor … Read more
Sunday, March 23, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: 1 Peter 2-3 Key Verse 1 Peter 2:24 — “Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.” Devotional Thought Peter writes to scattered exiles—strangers in … Read more
Saturday, March 22, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: James 5, 1 Peter 1 Secondary Reading: Psalms 34 Devotional Thought James closes his letter with a thunderclap against the rich who have hoarded wealth while defrauding their laborers. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth, and James tells these … Read more
Friday, March 21, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: James 4 Key Verse James 4:9 — “Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.” Devotional Thought James is writing to scattered believers, likely Jewish Christians dispersed by persecution, and he wastes no time getting to the … Read more
Thursday, March 20, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: James 2-3 Key Verse James 2:23 — “And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.” Devotional Thought James paints a scene that any of us might witness on a … Read more