Monday, June 5 Genesis 37:2-36 “When Joseph was seventeen years old . . .” With Genesis 37 we begin the Joseph story, which takes us through to the end of Genesis. God is determined to fulfill the covenant blessings of the promises he has made to Abraham and his descendants, despite the character flaws… Read more about People of God: Joseph
Summer Psalms
Monday, May 29 Psalms 1 – 2 “Serve the Lord” Psalm 1 stresses the importance of choice and believes that the key choice we have to make is enormously important. The Psalm also tells us that it is straightforward. There are two ways that open up before us as individuals; Jesus takes up the… Read more about Summer Psalms
The Sermon on the Mount
Monday, May 22 Matthew 5:1-16 “He began to teach them” “We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish… Read more about The Sermon on the Mount
Wisdom: Hearing and Doing
Monday, May 15 Ezekiel 33:30-32 “They have no intention of doing what I tell them” Ezekiel’s prophetic message appears to have a kind of popularity among the people to whom he is speaking, and he has become the subject of conversations in the cities and doorways. To use a contemporary analogy, he is the… Read more about Wisdom: Hearing and Doing
I Never Knew You
Monday, May 8 1 Corinthians 13:1-3 “. . . but have not love . . .” Paul argues for the absolute necessity of love. In every religious controversy it is love that leaves first. This was certainly true in Corinth where they were fighting over the gift of tongues. Paul tells them that to… Read more about I Never Knew You
Ask . . . Seek . . . Knock
Monday, May 1 Matthew 21:18-22 “If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for” The appearance of leaves on a fig tree was a promise of the sweet early fig. But this tree is unproductive, with no figs at all, and becomes an object lesson for Jesus to use to indicate Israel’s spiritual… Read more about Ask . . . Seek . . . Knock
Seeing Ourselves Clearly
Monday, April 24 Romans 2:1-4 “You who pass judgment on someone else” Paul is speaking to an anonymous person representing the Jewish people who were appalled by the idolatry of the Gentiles and all the ways in which they sinned against God. While rejecting the philosophy and lifestyle of non-Jews, they regarded themselves as… Read more about Seeing Ourselves Clearly
Seek First God’s Kingdom
Monday, April 17 Exodus 16:1-36 “I’m going to rain down food from heaven for you” The Israelites have left Egypt, crossed the Red Sea, and are in the desert on their way to the Promised Land. The desert is a difficult time for the Israelites. It is easy to condemn them as faithless, but… Read more about Seek First God’s Kingdom