Daily Liturgy and Scripture

Alex Parrish

A Psalm (or part of one), an Old Testament Reading, and a New Testament reading each day. Start with the Apostles' Creed, end with the Lord's Prayer. Current readings are from the New International Version. Through 2021, scriptures were read from the New Living Translation.

  1. 08/11/2024

    August 11: Psalm 103, Hosea 9, and John 11:45-57 (final episode)

    It's funny that Jesus was prophesied about by those who meant to oppose him. Anyone who thinks that God needs our assistance to accomplish his ultimate purposes can take a note from this. While we join God in that work, it is very much God bringing it about. We are included in that work which is ongoing. (Also, if you wish to continue this reading plan, here's the rest of the year.)

    8 min

  2. 08/10/2024

    August 10: Psalms 99, 100, and 101; Hosea 8; John 11:1-44

    Jesus enters a hostile territory to save a friend. This is a pretty good story in itself, but the saving is a resurrection, with a boost in the faith of his friends to boot. Since the Jewish leaders who questioned him were following, perhaps a few of them received a boost in their own faith as well.

    9 min

  3. 08/09/2024

    August 9: Psalm 95 and 96, Hosea 7, and John 10:22-42

    To not recognize Jesus means you are not his follower. What he said to the contentious Jewish leaders remains true today. There are false versions of Jesus's message that lead to places that may seem good, but they certainly don't lead to Jesus.

    7 min

  4. 08/08/2024

    Aug. 8: Psalm 92 and 93, Hosea 6, and John 10:1-21

    The new way of approaching God is to approach Jesus. To walk in step with Jesus is to walk with God, and in God's direction. The illustration of the sheep pen with the robber and the workers illustrates this, and steps on a few toes along the way.

    7 min

  5. 08/07/2024

    Special message from Alex

    Hello, friends. :-)

    1 min

  6. 08/07/2024

    August 7: Psalm 90, Hosea 5, and John 9

    All of the miracles Jesus performed on Sabbaths were healing miracles, making someone whole. And of course, doing so got him in trouble. If the Kingdom is subversive, then it is in this way: the thing which before could only point to our faults (the Law) has now been replaced with the way of Jesus, and that way does indeed bring wholness.

    8 min

  7. 08/06/2024

    August 6: Psalm 89:1-18, Hosea 4, and John 8:31-59

    The language of family was familiar to the Jews, especially with the common bond of Abraham as their father. But Jesus was coming to establish a new Kingdom, a new kind of family. In this family, what came before Abraham was the common bond, and that was God.

    8 min

  8. 08/05/2024

    August 5: Psalms 86 and 87, Hosea 3, and John 7:53-8:30

    To claim that God the Father speaks directly in your defense would have been pretty radical. It certainly would have stoked the ire of the religious leaders. Yet what Jesus spoke was confirmed by the church in the centuries that would follow: to see Jesus was to see God.

    7 min
See All (1.4K)

4.8
out of 5
4 Ratings

About

A Psalm (or part of one), an Old Testament Reading, and a New Testament reading each day. Start with the Apostles' Creed, end with the Lord's Prayer. Current readings are from the New International Version. Through 2021, scriptures were read from the New Living Translation.

Information