Today MONDAY OF THE FIFTEENTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME Catholic Daily Readings First Reading Is 1:10–17 Response Ps 50:23b Psalm Ps 50:8–9, 16b–17, 21, 23 Gospel Acclamation Mt 5:10 Gospel Mt 10:34–11:1 Today RUTH Lutheran Service Book Historic (One Year) Lectionary Today RUTH Lutheran Service Book Three Year Lectionary MONDAY AFTER PROPER 10 Today Re […]
July 16: Jack-in-the-Box Pride 1 Samuel 28:1–29:11; 1 Peter 2:13–17; Psalm 130:1–131:3 It’s dangerous to become too confident in the maturity of our own faith. Our pride is like the spring of a jack-in-the-box: Just when we think it’s broken or that we’ve gotten the lid on tight, it springs back to life. It rears its ugly head, bobbing around like a circus f […]
Morning, July 16 Go To Evening Reading “They gathered manna every morning.” —Exodus 16:21 Labour to maintain a sense of thine entire dependence upon the Lord’s good will and pleasure for the continuance of thy richest enjoyments. Never try to live on the old manna, nor seek to find help in Egypt. All must come from Jesus, or thou art undone for ever. Old ano […]
July 16th The notion of divine control How much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask Him? Matthew 7:11. Jesus is laying down rules of conduct for those who have His Spirit. By the simple argument of these verses He urges us to keep our minds filled with the notion of God’s control behind everything, which means that the […]
July 16 Ye shall not eat of it Gen. 3:3 The sin of Paradise was eating the tree of knowledge before the tree of life. Life must ever be first. Knowing and not being, hearing and not doing, admiring and not possessing, all are light without life. Selected Hardman, Samuel G., and Dwight Lyman Moody. Thoughts for the Quiet Hour. Willow Grove, PA: Woodlawn Elec […]
Fathers and Mothers Excerpt This is the title of the new part of the book; it is omitted in the Septuagint. There is some kind of loose connection in the grouping of these proverbs, but it is difficult to follow. “Ordo frustra quæritur ubi nullus fuit observatus,” says Mart. Geier. Wordsworth considers the present chapter to contain exemplifications of the p […]
Live Like Children of God Excerpt Although 2:28–29 is transitional, it also naturally links with 3:1–3 and its emphasis on the identity (and confidence) of the children of God. Those who are born of God have both an identity and responsibility that is consistent with their privileges as God’s children. Six times John notes the believer’s status as God’s chil […]
Canaan Excerpt Though the land was God’s gift to Israel, it could be won only by hard fighting. The Lord gave them title to the territory but they had to possess it by marching on every part. The boundaries established by God and promised to Abraham (Gen. 15:18-21) and Moses (Deut. 1:6-8) were to extend from the wilderness on the south to the Lebanon mountai […]
The Race of Life Excerpt Their encouragement has two purposes: to throw off everything that hinders and to put away the sin that so easily entangles. As Moses laid aside the prerogatives of royalty for the sake of his God-given mission, so we must throw off whatever may hinder faith even though it may be right for others. Joseph properly ruled in Egypt, but […]
July 15 Lesson 7 (KJV) The Widow and the Unjust Judge Devotional Reading: Psalm 145:13b–20 Background Scripture: Luke 18:1–8 Luke 18:1–8 1 And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint; 2 Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man: 3 And there was a widow in that city; and s […]
