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Day 3 - Tuesday | Daily Devotions | Morning and Evening: Daily Reading | Connect the Testaments | My Thoughts for His Highest |

  Morning, September 30 Go To Evening Reading “Sing forth the honour of his name, make his praise glorious.” —Psalm 66:2 It is not left to our own option whether we shall praise God or not. Praise is God’s most righteous due, and every Christian, as the recipient of his grace, is bound to praise God from day to day. We indeed have no authoritative rubric for daily praise; we have no commandment prescribing certain hours of song and thanksgiving, but the law written upon the heart teaches us that it is right to praise God. The unwritten mandate comes to us with as much force as if it had been recorded on the tablets of stone, or handed to us from the top of thundering Sinai. Yes, it is the Christian’s duty to praise God. It is not only a pleasurable exercise, but it is the absolute obligation of his life. Think not ye who are always mourning, that ye are guiltless in this respect, or imagine that ye can discharge your duty to your God without songs of praise. You are bound b...

Day 2 - Monday | Daily Devotions | Morning and Evening: Daily Devotions | Connect the Testaments | My Utmost for His Highest | Thoughts for the Hour |

  Morning, September 29 Go To Evening Reading “Behold, if the leprosy has covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague.” —Leviticus 13:13 Strange enough, this regulation appears, yet there was wisdom in it, for the throwing out of the disease proved that the constitution was sound. This morning, it may be well for us to see the typical teaching of so singular a rule. We, too, are lepers, and may read the law of the leper as applicable to ourselves. When a man sees himself to be altogether lost and ruined, covered all over with the defilement of sin, and no part free from pollution; when he disclaims all righteousness of his own, and pleads guilty before the Lord, then is he clean through the blood of Jesus, and the grace of God. Hidden, unfelt, unconfessed iniquity is the true leprosy, but when sin is seen and felt, it has received its death blow, and the Lord looks with eyes of mercy upon the soul afflicted with it. Nothing is more deadly than se...

Day 1 - Lord's Day - Sunday | Daily Devotions | The Church, Personal, and Office Lectionaries |

  Sunday, September 28, 2025 | Pentecost Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost Old Testament 1 Kings 17:8–16 Psalm Psalm 62 New Testament Galatians 5:25–6:10   Christian Worship One Year Lectionary (Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2009). Sunday, September 28, 2025 | After Pentecost Proper 21, Sunday Year 1 Psalms (Morning) Psalm 66, 67 Psalms (Evening) Psalm 19, 46 Old Testament 2 Kings 17:1–18 New Testament Acts 9:36–43 Gospel Luke 5:1–11  The Episcopal Church, Book of Common Prayer Lectionary (Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2010). Sunday, September 28, 2025 | After Pentecost Proper 21 Year C First Reading & Psalm, Option I First Reading Jeremiah 32:1–3a, 6–15 Psalm Psalm 91:1–6, 14–16 or First Reading & Psalm, Option II First Reading Amos 6:1a, 4–7 Psalm Psalm 146 Second Reading 1 Timothy 6:6–19 Gospel Luke 16:19–31   Episcopal Church (USA) Revised Common Lectio...