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

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  April 7: An Irrational Life Deuteronomy 11:1–12:28 ; 2 Corinthians 3:9–18; Psalm 35:12–28 Love is irrational. It requires doing things that compromise every survival instinct. Moses tells God’s people to have a memory of what God has done among them and to love Him as a result: “And you shall love Yahweh your God, and you shall keep his obligations and his statutes and his regulations and his commandments always. And you shall realize today that it is not with your children who have not known and who have not seen the discipline of Yahweh your God, his greatness, his strong hand, and his outstretched arm” (Deut 11:1–2). The Bible doesn’t say, “Keep Yahweh’s commandments when you feel like you love Him,” or “Keep Yahweh’s commandments when things are going your way.” It says, “You shall keep [Yahweh’s] … commandments always .” God’s greatest commandments are about loving Him and others (Mark 12:28–31; compare John 15:12). We love God and keep His commandments because He firs...
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Day 2 - Monday | Daily Devotions | Connect the Testaments | Morning and Evening: Daily Reading | My Utmost for His Highest | Thoughts for the Quiet Hour |

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April 6: A Letter of Recommendation Deuteronomy 9:1–10:22; 2 Corinthians 3:1–8 ; Psalm 35:1–11 We file letters of recommendation from pastors, past supervisors, and teachers that highlight our skills, attitude, and work ethic. They present us as ideal candidates, glossing over what we lack and how we’ve failed. But Paul’s letter of recommendation tells another story: “You are our letter, inscribed on our hearts, known and read by all people, revealing that you are a letter of Christ, delivered by us, inscribed not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on stone tablets but on tablets of human hearts” (2 Cor 3:2–3). Paul saw the work God was doing in the lives of the Corinthians. Through the work of the Spirit, they were drawn together as a community. Their response to the gospel testified that Paul was fulfilling the task for which he was called. But Paul doesn’t stay focused on himself in this passage. He switches the focus to the Spirit: “Now we possess such confidence t...
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Day 1 - Lord's Day - Sunday | Daily Devotions | The Church, Personal, and Office Lectionaries |

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  Saturday, April 4, 2026 | Easter Easter Vigil Gospel Reading Year A On the same date: Easter Vigil, Old Testament Readings and Psalms; Easter Vigil, Second Reading and Psalm Gospel Matthew 28:1–10  Vanderbilt Divinity Library, United Methodist Revised Common Lectionary (Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2009). Sunday, April 5, 2026 | Easter The Resurrection of Our Lord Easter Dawn On the same date: The Resurrection of Our Lord, Easter Day Old Testament Psalm 16 Psalm Psalm 150 New Testament 1 Corinthians 15:12–20 Gospel John 20:1–8   Christian Worship One Year Lectionary (Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2009). Sunday, April 5, 2026 | Easter Easter Day Principal Service Year A On the same date: Easter Day, Evening Service First Reading Acts 10:34–43 or Jeremiah 31:1–6   Psalm 118:1–2, 14–24 Second Reading Colossians 3:1–4 or Acts 10:34–43 Gospel John 20:1–18 or Matthew 28:1–10   Episcopal Ch...
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