Oct 30, 2024

(Eph.6:10-20;   Ps.144:1-2,9-10;   Lk.13:31-35)

“Today and tomorrow I cast out devils and perform cures,

and on the third day my purpose is accomplished.”

“Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who trains my hands for battle, my fingers for war,” King David sings, for the Lord is the “shield… who subdues peoples...

Oct 29, 2024

(Eph.6:1-9;   Ps.145:10-14;   Lk.13:22-30)

“Do God’s will with your whole heart

as slaves of Christ.”

These words Paul addresses to the slaves of his time, instructing them to “obey [their] human masters with the reverence, the awe, and the sincerity [they] owe to Christ,” but they apply well to us all,...

Oct 28, 2024

(Eph.5:21-33;   Ps.128:1-5;   Lk.13:18-21)

“To what shall I compare the reign of God?”

Jesus Himself compares it to a mustard seed which grows so steadily into a “large shrub,” and to yeast which makes “the whole mass of dough” rise.  And Paul tells us of the marriage union that it “refers to Christ...

Oct 26, 2024

(Jer.31:7-9;   Ps.126:1-6;   Heb.5:1-6;   Mk.10:46-52) 

“They departed in tears,

but I will console them and guide them.”

Through Jeremiah the Lord prophesies that His people Israel “shall return as an immense throng,” that He will “gather them from the ends of the world, with the blind and the lame in their...

Oct 25, 2024

(Eph.4:7-16;   Ps.122:1-5;   Lk.13:1-9)

“Each of us has received God’s favor

in the measure in which Christ bestows it.”

Paul reminds us today of Scripture: “When He ascended on high, He took a host of captives and gave gifts to men.”  Christ Himself “descended into the lower regions of the earth,”...