Thursday, January 30, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: 1 Corinthians 5-6 Secondary Reading: Psalms 13 Key Verse 1 Corinthians 6:4 — “If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church.” Devotional Thought Paul has barely finished addressing the Corinthians when a report … Read more
Wednesday, January 29, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: 1 Corinthians 3-4 Key Verse 1 Corinthians 3:23 — “And ye are Christ’s; and Christ is God’s.” Devotional Thought The church at Corinth was a congregation of remarkable gifts and equally remarkable troubles. Converts from a bustling port city — Greeks hungry for wisdom, Jews looking for … Read more
Tuesday, January 28, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: 1 Corinthians 2 Key Verse 1 Corinthians 2:9 — “But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.” Devotional Thought Paul had planted the church … Read more
Monday, January 27, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Romans 16, 1 Corinthians 1 Secondary Reading: Psalms 12 Devotional Thought Paul reaches the end of his letter to the church at Rome and does something easy to skip past: he says hello. Romans 16 is a long list of names—Phoebe, a servant of the church at … Read more
Sunday, January 26, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Romans 14-15 Key Verse Romans 15:6 — “That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.” Devotional Thought In the winter of the church’s life, when the days are short and the fellowship is close, Paul writes … Read more
Saturday, January 25, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Romans 13 Secondary Reading: Psalms 11 Key Verse Romans 13:8 — “Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.” Devotional Thought In the middle of winter, when the news seems to bring only tidings of rulers … Read more
Friday, January 24, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Romans 11-12 Key Verse Romans 11:29 — “For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.” Devotional Thought Paul opens Romans 11 with a question that pressed hard on the early church: has God abandoned Israel? His answer is immediate and emphatic—God forbid. Paul himself was … Read more
Thursday, January 23, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Romans 9-10 Key Verse Romans 9:28 — “For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.” Devotional Thought Paul opens Romans 9 with a confession that must have cost him tears: “I have … Read more
Wednesday, January 22, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Romans 8 Secondary Reading: Psalms 10 Key Verse Romans 8:20 — “For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,” Devotional Thought Paul writes to the church at Rome, a congregation he has never … Read more
Tuesday, January 21, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Romans 6-7 Key Verse Romans 7:2 — “For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.” Devotional Thought Paul has just … Read more
Monday, January 20, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Romans 4-5 Secondary Reading: Psalms 9 Key Verse Romans 4:24 — “But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;” Devotional Thought Paul turns to Abraham, the father of the Jewish people, … Read more
Sunday, January 19, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Romans 3 Key Verse Romans 3:16 — “Destruction and misery are in their ways:” Devotional Thought Paul has just spent two chapters dismantling every claim of human merit, and as Romans 3 opens he pauses to ask whether God’s ancient covenant with Israel counted for nothing. The … Read more