TODAY’S READINGS IN CONTEXT MAY 16, 2021 Acts 1:15-17, 21-26 Reading 15 In those days Peter stood up among the believers (together the crowd numbered about one hundred twenty persons) and said, 16 “Friends, the scripture had to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit through David foretold concerning Judas, who became a guide for those […]
TODAY’S READINGS IN CONTEXT MAY 9, 2021 Acts 10:44-48 Reading 44 While Peter was still speaking, the Holy Spirit fell upon all who heard the word. 45 The circumcised believers who had come with Peter were astounded that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles, 46 for they […]
TODAY’S READINGS IN CONTEXT MAY 2, 2021 Acts 8:26-40 Reading 26 An angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Get up and go toward the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” (This is a wilderness road.) 27 So he got up and went. Now there was an Ethiopian eunuch, a […]
TODAY’S READINGS IN CONTEXT APRIL 25, 2021 Acts 4:5-12 Reading 5 The rulers, elders, and scribes assembled in Jerusalem, 6 with Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, John, and Alexander, and all who were of the high-priestly family. 7 When they had made the prisoners stand in their midst, they inquired, “By what power or by […]
TODAY’S READINGS IN CONTEXT APRIL 18, 2021 Acts 3:12-19 Reading 12 Peter addressed the people, “You Israelites, why do you wonder at this, or why do you stare at us, as though by our own power or piety we had made him walk? 13 The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God […]
TODAY’S READINGS IN CONTEXT APRIL 11, 2021 Acts 4:32-35 Reading 32 Now the whole group of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one claimed private ownership of any possessions, but everything they owned was held in common. 33 With great power the apostles gave their testimony to the resurrection of […]
TODAY’S READINGS IN CONTEXT APRIL 4, 2021 EASTER SUNDAY For the Principal Service on Easter, the Revised Common Lectionary prescribes the Reading from Acts and either the Reading from Isaiah or 1 Corinthians. The order of the Readings my vary from congregation to congregation. Acts 10:34-43 Reading 34 Peter began to speak to Cornelius and […]
TODAY’S READINGS IN CONTEXT MARCH 28, 2021 Isaiah 50:4-9a Reading 4 The LORD GOD has given me the tongue of a teacher, that I may know how to sustain the weary with a word. Morning by morning he wakens — wakens my ear to listen as those who are taught. 5 The LORD GOD has […]
TODAY’S READINGS IN CONTEXT MARCH 21, 2021 Jeremiah 31:31-34 Reading 31 The days are surely coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. 32 It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I took them by […]
TODAY’S READINGS IN CONTEXT MARCH 14, 2021 Numbers 21:4-9 Reading 4 From Mount Hor the Israelites set out by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom; but the people became impatient on the way. 5 The people spoke against God and against Moses, “Why have you brought us up […]