TODAY’S READINGS IN CONTEXT MAY 1, 2022 Acts 9:1-20 Reading 1 Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest 2 and asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any who belonged to the Way, men or women, he might […]
TODAY’S READINGS IN CONTEXT APRIL 24, 2022 Acts 5:27-32 Reading 27 When the temple police had brought the apostles, they had them stand before the council. The high priest questioned them, 28 saying, “We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name, yet here you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and you […]
TODAY’S READINGS IN CONTEXT APRIL 17, 2022 (Easter Principal Service) Acts 10:34-43 Reading 34 Peter began to speak to Cornelius and the other Gentiles: “I truly understand that God shows no partiality, 35 but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him. 36 You know the message […]
TODAY’S READINGS IN CONTEXT APRIL 10, 2022 Liturgy of the Palms Luke 19:28-40 Reading 28 After telling a parable to the crowd at Jericho, Jesus went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem. 29 When he had come near Bethpage and Bethany, at the place called the Mount of Olives, he sent two of the disciples, […]
TODAY’S READINGS IN CONTEXT APRIL 3, 2022 Isaiah 43:16-21 Reading 16 Thus says the LORD, who makes a way in the sea, a path in the mighty waters, 17 who brings out chariot and horse, army and warrior; they lie down, they cannot rise, they are extinguished, quenched like a wick: 18 Do not remember […]
TODAY’S READINGS IN CONTEXT MARCH 27, 2022 Joshua 5:9-12 Reading 9 The LORD said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away from you the disgrace of Egypt.” And so that place is called Gilgal to this day. 10 While the Israelites were camped in Gilgal, they kept the passover in the evening on the fourteenth […]
TODAY’S READINGS IN CONTEXT MARCH 20, 2022 Exodus 3:1-15 Reading 1 Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian; he led his flock beyond the wilderness, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. 2 There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire out […]
TODAY’S READINGS IN CONTEXT MARCH 13, 2022 Genesis 15:1-12,17-18 Reading 1 The word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, “Do not be afraid, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great.” 2 But Abram said, “O LORD God, what will you give me, for I continue childless, and the […]
TODAY’S READINGS IN CONTEXT MARCH 6, 2022 Deuteronomy 26:1-11 Reading 1 When you have come into the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance to possess, and you possess it, and settle in it, 2 you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which […]
TODAY’S READINGS IN CONTEXT FEBRUARY 27, 2022 Exodus 34:29-35 Reading 29 Moses came down from Mount Sinai. As he came down from the mountain with the two tablets of the covenant in his hand, Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because he had been talking with God. 30 When Aaron […]