Sunday, February 23, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Philippians 4 Secondary Reading: Psalms 23 Key Verse Philippians 4:12 — “I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer … Read more
Saturday, February 22, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Philippians 2-3 Key Verse Philippians 2:26 — “For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick.” Devotional Thought Paul writes to the church at Philippi from a Roman prison, and yet the word that beats … Read more
Friday, February 21, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Ephesians 6, Philippians 1 Secondary Reading: Psalms 22 Devotional Thought Paul wrote to the Ephesians from a Roman prison, chained to a soldier, and yet the closing chapter of that letter is anything but defeated. He tells children to obey their parents, fathers to nurture their children … Read more
Thursday, February 20, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Ephesians 5 Key Verse Ephesians 5:17 — “Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.” Devotional Thought Paul writes to the church at Ephesus, a congregation he knows well, having spent three years teaching there in the shadow of the great … Read more
Wednesday, February 19, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Ephesians 3-4 Key Verse Ephesians 4:6 — “One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.” Devotional Thought Paul writes this letter as a prisoner in Rome, chains on his wrists, yet he introduces himself not as a captive … Read more
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Ephesians 1-2 Secondary Reading: Psalms 21 Key Verse Ephesians 1:23 — “Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.” Devotional Thought Paul writes to the saints at Ephesus, a bustling port city on the Aegean coast of Asia Minor, where the temple … Read more
Monday, February 17, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Galatians 6 Key Verse Galatians 6:10 — “As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.” Devotional Thought Paul takes the pen from his scribe and writes in large, plain letters so the Galatians … Read more
Sunday, February 16, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Galatians 4-5 Secondary Reading: Psalms 20 Key Verse Galatians 4:29 — “But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.” Devotional Thought Paul writes to the churches of Galatia with the anguish of … Read more
Saturday, February 15, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Galatians 2-3 Key Verse Galatians 3:5 — “He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?” Devotional Thought The scene in Antioch is one of the most striking … Read more
Friday, February 14, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Galatians 1 Key Verse Galatians 1:13 — “For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it:” Devotional Thought Paul opens his letter to the Galatians with a thunderclap of … Read more
Thursday, February 13, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: 2 Corinthians 12-13 Secondary Reading: Psalms 19 Key Verse 2 Corinthians 12:18 — “I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? walked we not in the same spirit? walked we not in the same steps?” Devotional Thought Paul … Read more
Wednesday, February 12, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: 2 Corinthians 11 Key Verse 2 Corinthians 11:17 — “That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.” Devotional Thought Paul is writing to the church at Corinth, and he is on the defensive—though he … Read more