Posts with the category “the-daily”

Reading: Mark 13:24-37 (NRSV, The Message) "Divine Spark" by Hannah Garrity | A Sanctified Art LLC | sanctifiedart.orgThese daily devotionals were orginally written for Advent 2020. While the challeng...  Read More

Reading: Mark 13:24-37 (NRSV, The Message) These daily devotionals were orginally written for Advent 2020. While the challenges four years later are slightly different, the need for those who dream re...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 16 (NRSV, The Message); Daniel 4:19-27 (NRSV, The Message); Colossians 2:6-15 (NRSV, The Message) At first Daniel, who had been renamed Belteshazzar in Babylon, was ups...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 26 (NRSV, The Message); Obadiah 17-21 (NRSV, The Message); Luke 16:19-31 (NRSV, The Message) With divisiveness--and anxiety about that divisiveness--at an all-time high...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 26 (NRSV, The Message); Obadiah 6-10 (NRSV, The Message); Revelation 8:1-5 (NRSV, The Message) Compassion grows when we are able to know ourselves and one another on a ...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 26 (NRSV, The Message); Obadiah 1-9 (NRSV, The Message); Revelation 7:9-17 (NRSV, The Message) The word "kindness" originally developed from a root word that meant "fam...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 90:12-17 (NRSV, The Message); Deuteronomy 5:1-21 (NRSV, The Message); Hebrews 3:7-19 (NRSV, The Message) The word "kindness" originally developed from a root word that ...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 112 (NRSV, The Message); Jeremiah 3:6-14 (NRSV, The Message); Matthew 5:27-36 (NRSV, The Message) The "purple space" is where we cultivate kindness, compassion, humilit...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 112 (NRSV, The Message); Deuteronomy 24:1-5 (NRSV, The Message); 1 Corinthians 7:10-16 (NRSV, The Message) The Golden Rule in scripture challenges us to engage in conve...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 112 (NRSV, The Message); Deuteronomy 22:13-20 (NRSV, The Message); 1 Corinthians 7:1-9 (NRSV, The Message) The Golden Rule in scripture challenges us to engage in conve...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 8 (NRSV, The Message); Genesis 2:18-24 (NRSV, The Message); Hebrews 1:1-4, 2:5-12 (NRSV, The Message); Mark 10:2-16 (NRSV, The Message) Today we begin a 5 week series o...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 11 (NRSV, The Message); 1 Kings 5:13-18 (NRSV, The Message); Ephesians 5:21-6:9 (NRSV, The Message) King Solomon conscripted forced labor out of all Israel; the levy nu...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 57 (NRSV, The Message); 2 Samuel 15:13-31 (NRSV, The Message); Ephesians 5:1-14 (NRSV, The Message) Watch what God does, and then you do it, like children who learn pro...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 51:1-12 (NRSV, The Message); Judges 6:1-10 (NRSV, The Message); Matthew 16:5-12 (NRSV, The Message) Haven’t you realized yet that bread isn’t the problem?Matthew 16:11 ...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 51:1-12 (NRSV, The Message); Joshua 23:1-16 (NRSV, The Message); 1 Corinthians 11:27-34 (NRSV, The Message) Joshua, speaking to the people of Israel:...and you have see...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 51:1-12 (NRSV, The Message); Exodus 32:19-26a (NRSV, The Message); 1 Corinthians 11:17-22 (NRSV, The Message) For, to begin with, when you come together as a church, I ...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 37:12-22 (NRSV, The Message); 2 Samuel 11:14-21 (NRSV, The Message); Philippians 4:10-20 (NRSV, The Message) I’ve learned by now to be quite content whatever my circums...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 85:8-13 (NRSV, The Message); Amos 4:6-13 (NRSV, The Message); Luke 1:57-80 (NRSV, The Message) Immediately his mouth was opened and his tongue freed, and he began to sp...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 85:8-13 (NRSV, The Message); Amos 3:1-12 (NRSV, The Message); Colossians 4:2-18 (NRSV, The Message) Thus says the Lord: As the shepherd rescues from the mouth of the li...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 21 (NRSV, The Message); 2 Samuel 5:11-16 (NRSV, The Message); James 5:7-12 (NRSV, The Message) In Jerusalem, after he came from Hebron, David took more concubines and w...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 21 (NRSV, The Message); 2 Samuel 5:1-10 (NRSV, The Message); 2 Corinthians 11:16-33 (NRSV, The Message) They had convinced themselves that David couldn’t break through....  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 48 (NRSV, The Message); 2 Samuel 5:1-5, 9-10 (NRSV, The Message); 2 Corinthians 12:2-10 (NRSV, The Message); Mark 6:1-13 (NRSV, The Message) David proceeded with a long...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 48 (NRSV, The Message); 2 Samuel 3:31-38 (NRSV, The Message); Matthew 8:18-22 (NRSV, The Message) ...everything the king did pleased all the people.2 Samuel 3:36 (NRSV)...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 48 (NRSV, The Message); 2 Samuel 3:1-12 (NRSV, The Message); 2 Samuel 3:1-12 (NRSV, The Message) The war between the house of Saul and the house of David dragged on and...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 48 (NRSV, The Message); 2 Samuel 2:1-11 (NRSV, The Message);  1 Corinthians 4:8-13 (NRSV, The Message) Then the people of Judah came, and there they anointed David king...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 88 (NRSV, The Message); 1 Chronicles 10:1-14 (NRSV, The Message); Mark 9:14-29 (NRSV, The Message) Jesus said to him, “If you are able!—All things can be done for the o...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 88 (NRSV, The Message); 1 Samuel 31:1-13 (NRSV, The Message); 2 Corinthians 9:1-5 (NRSV, The Message) The battle pressed hard upon Saul; the archers found him, and he w...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 88 (NRSV, The Message); 1 Samuel 23:14-18 (NRSV, The Message); 2 Corinthians 8:16-24 (NRSV, The Message) He said, “Don’t despair. My father, Saul, can’t lay a hand on y...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 130 (NRSV, The Message); 2 Samuel 1:1, 17-27 (NRSV, The Message); 2 Corinthians 8:7-15 (NRSV, The Message) Mark 5:21-43 (NRSV, The Message) I am distressed for you, my ...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 130 (NRSV, The Message); 1 Samuel 20:27-42 (NRSV, The Message); Luke 4:31-37 (NRSV, The Message) Jonathan said, “Go in peace! The two of us have vowed friendship in God...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 130 (NRSV, The Message); 1 Samuel 20:1-25 (NRSV, The Message); 2 Corinthians 8:1-7 (NRSV, The Message) When the two of them were out in the field, Jonathan said, “As Go...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 130 (NRSV, The Message); 1 Samuel 19:18-24 (NRSV, The Message); 2 Corinthians 7:2-16 (NRSV, The Message) As he headed out for Naioth in Ramah, the Spirit of God was on ...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 119:113-128 (NRSV, The Message); 1 Samuel 19:8-17 (NRSV, The Message); Mark 6:45-52 (NRSV, The Message) Again there was war...1 Samuel 19:8 In ancient story as now, it ...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 119:113-128 (NRSV, The Message); 1 Samuel 19:1-7 (NRSV, The Message); Acts 27:39-44 (NRSV, The Message) Saul called his son Jonathan together with his servants and orde...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 119:113-128 (NRSV, The Message); 1 Samuel 18:6-30 (NRSV, The Message) ; Acts 27:13-38 (NRSV, The Message) As Saul more and more realized that God was with David, and ho...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 9:9-20 (NRSV, The Message); 1 Samuel 17:1, 4-11, 19-23, 32-49 (NRSV, The Message); 2 Corinthians 6:1-13 (NRSV, The Message); Mark 4:35-41 (NRSV, The Message) David put ...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 9:9-20 (NRSV, The Message); 1 Samuel 17:55-18:5 (NRSV, The Message); Luke 21:15-28 (NRSV, The Message) Once David finished speaking with Saul, the souls of Jonathan and...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 9:9-20 (NRSV, The Message); 1 Samuel 17:55-18:5 (NRSV, The Message); Acts 21:1-16 (NRSV,  The Message) Once David finished speaking with Saul, the souls of Jonathan and...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 9:9-20 (NRSV, The Message); 1 Samuel 16:14-23 (NRSV, The Mesage); Acts 20:1-16 (NRSV, The Message) After that, whenever the bad depression from God tormented Saul, Davi...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 53 (NRSV, The Message); 1 Samuel 15:24-31 (NRSV, The Message); Luke 6:43-45 (NRSV, The Message) Then Saul said, “I have sinned; yet honor me now before the elders of my...  Read More