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TODAY’S SCRIPTURE | Acts 8:26-40
The Ethiopian eunuch is both a racial and a sexual/social outsider. As a eunuch, he was excluded from the courts of the Lord and from belonging to the people of God ac…

TODAY’S SCRIPTURE | Acts 6:1-7
The disciples also experience internal tensions and threats. Cultural and ethnic discrimination and injustice crops up in the life of the church, needing to be addressed…

TODAY’S SCRIPTURE | Acts 4:1-4, 18-31
The disciples quickly experience external opposition and hostility for their faith. The religious establishment is anxious about the threat to their power and inf…

TODAY’S SCRIPTURE | Acts 2:42-47; 4:32-5:11
The experience of God’s grace and the Spirit creates a surprising, deep fellowship, one that is marked by devotion to God’s word, prayer, and the sharing of…

TODAY’S SCRIPTURE | Acts 2:1-18
The outpouring of the Spirit is the “promise of the Father,” the long-awaited fulfillment of promises made long ago, something that would transform all of life. “The pr…

TODAY’S SCRIPTURE | Acts 1:1-11
Jesus prepares to unleash his disciples for the kingdom of God. He teaches them about the kingdom of God for forty days, and tells them to wait for the promise of the F…

TODAY’S SCRIPTURE | Luke 24:1-12
The Biblical story reaches its narrative peak with the resurrection of Jesus, without which ‘let us eat and drink for tomorrow we die.’ (1 Corinthians 15:32)  Luke’s a…

TODAY’S SCRIPTURE | Luke 11:37-54
When a religious leader invited Jesus over for lunch, Jesus used the occasion to launch into a sharp critique of the prevailing religion of the day. Religion gone wro…

TODAY’S SCRIPTURE | Luke 6:17-31 
Luke’s biography of Jesus continues to show his growing popularity as Jesus presses the claim that he is the long awaited Messiah.  Having established that he has com…

TODAY’S SCRIPTURE | Luke 6:1-11
Luke gives us two Sabbath vignettes in which Jesus is first asked why he was breaking the law on the Sabbath?  Jesus answers that question with his own question about w…

TODAY’S SCRIPTURE | Luke 4:22-30
Jesus returns to his hometown where initially he is welcomed as a gifted teacher.  The events quickly turn dark as his neighbors gather as a mob in an attempt to throw…

TODAY’S SCRIPTURE | Luke 4:1-13
Jesus begins his public ministry with a 40-day wilderness time of prayer and fasting. He encounters Satan, the enemy of God and his people, who tempts him three times. …

TODAY’S SCRIPTURE | Ecclesiastes 3:1-11
Lent begins with a reminder of our mortality and need for reconciliation with God. In Scripture, ashes serve both as a symbol of mortality and as a sign of mour…

TODAY’S SCRIPTURE | Ezekiel 11:14-25 
When the temple was destroyed, the exiles must have thought they lost God. They couldn’t be farther from the truth. God says of the exiles: “though I scattered th…

TODAY’S SCRIPTURE |  Ezekiel 1:1-9, 1:15-18, 1:25-2:5 
Ezekiel’s vision of God’s glory is awe-inspiring and shocking. We see a violent storm, angelic creatures, complicated, machine-like chariot wheel…

TODAY’S SCRIPTURE |  Ezekiel 2:6-3:11 
God feeds Ezekiel a new kind of food, a divine word, in the form of a scroll containing hard news to be delivered to the community. God’s word starts sweet but i…

TODAY’S SCRIPTURE | Esther 7:1-8:5; 9:20-23 
Once again, God saves. God’s people celebrate their deliverance from seemingly certain destruction. Their protection is hard won, with violence and turmoil…