May 1st, 2022

Read Psalm 139:13-16 NIV For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.  I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;  your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was […]

April 30th, 2022

Read Psalm 27:13-14 NLT Yet I am confident I will see the Lord’s goodness     while I am here in the land of the living. Wait patiently for the Lord.     Be brave and courageous.     Yes, wait patiently for the Lord. Lord, Sometimes it is hard to be hopeful in such a broken world. All the poverty, […]

April 29th, 2022

Read Luke 4:18-19 NLT “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,     for he has anointed me to bring Good News to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim that captives will be released,     that the blind will see, that the oppressed will be set free,     and that the time of the Lord’s favor […]

April 28th, 2022

Read Amos 5:21-24 MSG “I can’t stand your religious meetings.     I’m fed up with your conferences and conventions. I want nothing to do with your religion projects,     your pretentious slogans and goals. I’m sick of your fund-raising schemes,     your public relations and image making. I’ve had all I can take of your noisy ego-music.     When […]

April 27th, 2022

Read Isaiah 58:2-11 For day after day they seek me out; they seem eager to know my ways, as if they were a nation that does what is right and has not forsaken the commands of its God. They ask me for just decisions and seem eager for God to come near them.  ‘Why have […]

April 26th, 2022

Read Isaiah 1:15-17 When you spread out your hands in prayer, I hide my eyes from you; even when you offer many prayers, I am not listening. Your hands are full of blood! Wash and make yourselves clean. Take your evil deeds out of my sight; stop doing wrong. Learn to do right; seek justice. […]

April 25th, 2022

Read Romans 5:12-18 When Adam sinned, sin entered the world. Adam’s sin brought death, so death spread to everyone, for everyone sinned.  Yes, people sinned even before the law was given. But it was not counted as sin because there was not yet any law to break.  Still, everyone died—from the time of Adam to […]

April 24th, 2022

Read Genesis 1:27 NIrV So God created human beings in his own likeness. He created them to be like himself. He created them as male and female. My husband and I were blessed to become grandparents this year. What an amazing thing it is to be a grandparent! I have loved watching my granddaughter’s little […]

April 23rd, 2022

Read: Acts 1:6-9 So when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, is this the time when you will restore the kingdom to Israel?” He replied, “It is not for you to know the times or periods that the Father has set by his own authority. But you will receive power when the Holy […]

April 22nd, 2022

Read: John 21:9-14 NRSV When they had gone ashore, they saw a charcoal fire there, with fish on it, and bread. Jesus said to them, “Bring some of the fish that you have just caught.” So Simon Peter went aboard and hauled the net ashore, full of large fish, a hundred fifty-three of them; and […]