April 24 Joshua 10:29-12:24 Psalm 50:7-15 Proverbs 12:1-3 Luke 15:11-32 The Hurt of Rejection The younger [son] said to his father, “Father, give me the share of the estate I have coming to me.” So he distributed the assets to them … The younger son gathered together all he hadRead More …

April 5 Deuteronomy 7:1-8:20 Psalm 40:11-17 Proverbs 10:12-14 Luke 6:37-7:10 Amazing Love! The Lord … chose you, not because you were more numerous…. But because the Lord loved you.—Deuteronomy 7:7-8 When the Bible says God is love, it is saying more than the fact that God loves, or that GodRead More …

MARCH 29 MORNING Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. Matthew 25:34 Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. — Hath not God chosen the poor of this world richRead More …

March 29 There shall no evil befall thee.—Psalm 91:10. Whoso hearkeneth unto Me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.—Proverbs 1:33. I ask not, “Take away this weight of care;” No, for that love I pray that all can bear, And for the faith that whatsoe’erRead More …

March 28 Giving thanks always for all things unto God.—Ephesians 5:20. For blessings of the fruitful season, For work and rest, for friends and home, For the great gifts of thought and reason,— To praise and bless Thee, Lord, we come. Yes, and for weeping and for wailing, For bitterRead More …

1 Thessalonians 5 1 Now, brothers and sisters, about times and dates we do not need to write to you, 2 for you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. 3 While people are saying, “Peace and safety,” destruction willRead More …

James 4 1 What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? 2 You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because youRead More …

Jeremiah 17 1 “Judah’s sin is engraved with an iron tool, inscribed with a flint point, on the tablets of their hearts and on the horns of their altars. 2 Even their children remember their altars and Asherah poles beside the spreading trees and on the high hills. 3 My mountain inRead More …

December 27 “His soul entered into iron.” (Psalm 105:18.) TURN, that about and render it in our language, and it reads thus, “Iron entered his soul.” Is there not a truth in this? That sorrow and privation, the yoke borne in the youth, the soul’s enforced restraint, are all conduciveRead More …