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  Morning, March 31 . Go To Evening Reading “With his stripes we are healed.” —Isaiah 53:5 Pilate delivered our Lord to the lictors to be scourged. The Roman scourge was a most dreadful instrument of torture. It was made of the sinews of oxen, and sharp bones were inter-twisted every here and there among the sinews; so, every time the lash came down, these pieces of bone inflicted fearful laceration, tearing off the flesh from the bone. The Saviour was, no doubt, bound to the column and thus beaten. He had been beaten before, but this of the Roman lictors was probably the most severe of his flagellations. My soul, stand here and weep over his poor stricken body. Believer in Jesus, can you gaze upon him without tears, as he stands before you, the mirror of agonizing love? He is at once fair as the lily for innocence, and red as the rose with the crimson of his own blood. As we feel the sure and blessed healing which his stripes have wrought in us, does not our heart melt at o...

  March 16, 2025 | Lent Second Sunday in Lent Old Testament Isaiah 49:5–9a Psalm Psalm 25 New Testament 1 Thessalonians 4:1–7 Gospel Matthew 15:21–28   Christian Worship One Year Lectionary (Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2009). Sunday, March 16, 2025 | Lent Second Sunday in Lent Year C First Reading Genesis 15:1–12, 17–18 Psalm Psalm 27 Second Reading Philippians 3:17–4:1 Gospel Luke 13:31–35   Episcopal Church (USA) Revised Common Lectionary (Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2016). Sunday, March 16, 2025 | Lent Second Sunday in Lent Year C Old Testament Genesis 15:1–12, 17–18 Psalm Psalm 27 (UMH 758) New Testament Philippians 3:17–4:1 Gospel Luke 13:31–35  Vanderbilt Divinity Library, United Methodist Revised Common Lectionary (Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2009). Sunday, March 16, 2025 | Lent Second Sunday in Lent Old Testament Genesis 32:22–32 Psalm Ps...

March 16 Lesson 3 (KJV) The Ordination of Priests Devotional Reading: Psalm 133 Background Scripture: Exodus 29:1–37; Leviticus 8:1–36 Exodus 29:1–9, 35–37 1 And this is the thing that thou shalt do unto them to hallow them, to minister unto me in the priest’s office: take one young bullock, and two rams without blemish, 2 And unleavened bread, cakes unleavened tempered with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil: of wheaten flour shalt thou make them. 3 And thou shalt put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bullock and the two rams. 4 And Aaron and his sons thou shalt bring unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shalt wash them with water. 5 And thou shalt take the garments, and put upon Aaron the coat, and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastplate, and gird him with the curious girdle of the ephod: 6 And thou shalt put the mitre upon his head and the holy crown upon the mitre. 7 Then shalt thou take the anointing oil, p...