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

  Morning, June 30 Go To Evening Reading “And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them.” —John 17:22 Behold the superlative liberality of the Lord Jesus, for he hath given us his all. Although a tithe of his possessions would have made a universe of angels rich beyond all thought, yet was he not content until he had given us all that he had. It would have been surprising grace if he had allowed us to eat the crumbs of his bounty beneath the table of his mercy, but he will do nothing by halves; he makes us sit with him and share the feast. Had he given us some small pension from his royal coffers, we should have had cause to love him eternally; but no, he will have his bride as rich as himself, and he will not have a glory or a grace in which she shall not share. He has not been content with less than making us joint-heirs with himself, so that we might have equal possessions. He has emptied all his estate into the coffers of the Church, and hath all things every day ...

Day 1 - Lord's Day - Sunday | Daily Devotions | The Church, Personal, and Office Lectionaries | 06/29/2025 |

  Sunday, June 29, 2025 | Pentecost Third Sunday after Pentecost Old Testament Isaiah 25:6–9 Psalm Psalm 100 New Testament 1 John 3:13–18 Gospel Luke 14:16–24   Christian Worship One Year Lectionary (Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2009). Sunday, June 29, 2025 | After Pentecost Proper 8 Year C On the same date: St. Peter and St. Paul First Reading & Psalm, Option I First Reading 2 Kings 2:1–2, 6–14 Psalm Psalm 77:1–2, 11–20 or First Reading & Psalm, Option II First Reading 1 Kings 19:15–16, 19–21 Psalm Psalm 16 Second Reading Galatians 5:1, 13–25 Gospel Luke 9:51–62   Episcopal Church (USA) Revised Common Lectionary (Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2016). Second Sunday after Trinity On the same date: St. Peter and St. Paul, Apostles Old Testament Proverbs 9:1–10 Psalm Psalm 34:12–22 Epistle Ephesians 2:13–22 or 1 John 3:13–18 Gospel Luke 14:15–24   Lutheran Se...

Day 1 - Lord's Day - Sunday | Daily Devotions | The KJV Standard Lesson Commentary, 2024-2025 |

  June 29 Lesson 5 (KJV) Jacob Sets Up a Sacred Pillar Devotional Reading: John 15:1–8 Background Scripture: Genesis 28:1–22; 33:17–20; 35:1–7 Genesis 28:10–22 10 And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran. 11 And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep. 12 And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it. 13 And, behold, the Lord stood above it, and said, I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed; 14 And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blesse...