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  Morning, May 31 Go To Evening Reading “The king also himself passed over the brook Kidron.” —2 Samuel 15:23 David passed that gloomy brook when flying with his mourning company from his traitor son. The man after God’s heart was not exempt from trouble; nay, his life was full of it. He was both the Lord’s Anointed and the Lord’s Afflicted. Why, then, should we expect to escape? At sorrow’s gates, the noblest of our race have waited with ashes on their heads; wherefore should we complain as though some strange thing had happened unto us? The King of kings was not favored with a more cheerful or royal road. He passed over the filthy ditch of Kidron, through which the filth of Jerusalem flowed. God had one Son without sin, but not a child without the rod. It is a great joy to believe that Jesus has been tempted in all points like we are. What is our Kidron this morning? Is it a faithless friend, a sad bereavement, a slanderous reproach, a dark foreboding? Is it bodily pain,...

  Morning, May 29 Go To Evening Reading “Thou hatest wickedness.” —Psalm 45:7 “Be ye angry, and sin not.” There can hardly be goodness in a man if he is not angry at sin; he who loves truth must hate every false way. How our Lord Jesus hated it when the temptation came! Thrice it assailed him in different forms, but ever he met it with, “Get thee behind me, Satan.” He hated it in others, none less fervently because he showed his hate oftener in tears of pity than in words of rebuke; yet what language could be sterner, more Elijah-like, than the words, “Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayer.” He hated wickedness so much that he bled to wound it to the heart; he died that it might die; he was buried that he might bury it in his tomb; and he rose that he might forever trample it beneath his feet. Christ is in the Gospel, and that Gospel is opposed to wickedness in every shape. Wickedness arrays itself ...

  Morning, May 29 Go To Evening Reading “Thou hatest wickedness.” —Psalm 45:7 “Be ye angry, and sin not.” There can hardly be goodness in a man if he is not angry at sin; he who loves truth must hate every false way. How our Lord Jesus hated it when the temptation came! Thrice it assailed him in different forms, but ever he met it with, “Get thee behind me, Satan.” He hated it in others, none less fervently because he showed his hate oftener in tears of pity than in words of rebuke; yet what language could be sterner, more Elijah-like, than the words, “Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayer.” He hated wickedness so much that he bled to wound it to the heart; he died that it might die; he was buried that he might bury it in his tomb; and he rose that he might forever trample it beneath his feet. Christ is in the Gospel, and that Gospel is opposed to wickedness in every shape. Wickedness arrays itself ...

Sunday, May 28, 2023, | Pentecost The Coming of the Holy Spirit The Day of Pentecost Year A Old Testament Joel 2:28, 29 Psalm Psalm 51 New Testament Acts 2:1–21 Gospel John 16:5–11   Christian Worship Three-Year Lectionary (with Supplemental Lectionary) . Print. Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2009. Sunday, May 28, 2023, | Pentecost The Coming of the Holy Spirit The Day of Pentecost Old Testament Joel 2:28–32 Psalm Psalm 51 New Testament Acts 2:1–13 Gospel John 14:23–31   Christian Worship One Year Lectionary . Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2009. Print. Sunday, May 28, 2023, | Easter Day of Pentecost Early Service Years ABC On the same date: The day of Pentecost, the Principal Service First Reading Genesis 11:1–9 Psalm Psalm 33:12–22 Second Reading Exodus 19:1–9, 16–20a, 20:18–20 Psalm Song of Three Youths 29–34 (Canticle 2 or 13) Third Reading Ezekiel 37:1–14 Psalm Psalm 130 Fourth Readi...