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Day 3 - Tuesday - Daily Devotions - Logos

  Morning, April 30 Go To Evening Reading “And all the children of Israel murmured.” —Numbers 14:2 There are murmurers amongst Christians now, as there were in the camp of Israel of old. There are those who, when the rod falls, cry out against the afflictive dispensation. They ask, “Why am I thus afflicted? What have I done to be chastened in this manner?” A word with thee, O murmurer! Why shouldst thou murmur against the dispensations of thy heavenly Father? Can he treat thee more hardly than thou deservest? Consider what a rebel thou wast once, but he has pardoned thee! Indeed, if he in his wisdom sees fit now to chasten thee, thou shouldst not complain. After all, art thou smitten as hardly as thy sins deserve? Consider the corruption which is in thy breast, and then wilt thou wonder that there needs so much of the rod to fetch it out? Weigh thyself, and discern how much dross is mingled with thy gold, and dost thou think the fire too hot to purge away so much dross as th...

Day 2 - Monday - Daily Devotions - Logos

  Morning, April 29 Go To Evening Reading “Thou art my hope in the day of evil.” —Jeremiah 17:17 The path of the Christian is not always bright with sunshine; he has his seasons of darkness and of storm. Accurate, it is written in God’s Word, “Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.” It is an excellent truth that religion is calculated to give a man happiness below as well as bliss above. Still, experience tells us that if the course of the just is “As the shining light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day,” yet sometimes that light is eclipsed. At specific periods, clouds cover the believer’s sun, and he walks in darkness and sees no light. Many have rejoiced in the presence of God for a season; they have basked in the sunshine in the earlier stages of their Christian career; they have walked along the “green pastures” by the side of the “still waters,” but suddenly they find the glorious sky is clouded; instead of the Land of Goshen they...

Day 1 - Lord's Day - (Sunday) - The Church, Personal. and Office Lectionaries - Logos

  Sunday, April 28, 2024 | Easter Fifth Sunday of Easter Old Testament 1 Chronicles 16:23–34 Psalm Psalm 66 New Testament James 1:16–21 Gospel John 16:5–15   Christian Worship One Year Lectionary (Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2009). Sunday, April 28, 2024 | Easter Fifth Sunday of Easter Year B First Reading Acts 8:26–40 Psalm Psalm 22:24–30 Second Reading 1 John 4:7–21 Gospel John 15:1–8   Episcopal Church (USA) Revised Common Lectionary (Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2016). Sunday, April 28, 2024 | Easter Fifth Sunday of Easter Year B First Reading Acts 8:26–40 Psalm Psalm 22:25–31 (UMH 752) New Testament 1 John 4:7–21 Gospel John 15:1–8  Vanderbilt Divinity Library, United Methodist Revised Common Lectionary (Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2009). Sunday, April 28, 2024 | Easter Fifth Sunday of Easter Old Testament Isaiah 12:1–6 Psalm Psalm 66:1–8 Epist...