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POSTS FOR
THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 2025

matthew 21.28-32 questionary #28 in the "jesus and the kingdom of God" series find it here
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 READINGS FROM THE PSALMS

The kings of the earth set themselves,
   and the rulers take counsel together,
against the LORD,
   and against his anointed… (2.2).
​In his most trying hour, Jesus turned to the Psalms to express himself in prayer: “My God, my God! Why hast thou forsaken me?” (ps. 22.1). If it was good enough for him, it is good enough for us. Generations of Jews and Christians alike have found power in praying the Psalms as Jesus did on the cross. Here, we provide a daily psalm with the suggestion that you consider incorporating it into your daily prayers.

READINGS FROM THE NEW TESTAMENT GOSPELS

john 12.3, 7
Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment… Then said Jesus   “against the day of my burying hath she kept this.
It is impossible to overestimate the power and importance of the N.T. Gospels. Everywhere else when God's thoughts, words, and actions are discussed, it is in the third person: "he thinks," "he says," "he does." But in the N.T. Gospels, all of God's thoughts, words, and actions are in the first person: "I think," "I say," "I do." No where is the revelation of God and His character more accurate and intimate.

READINGS ON A JUST SOCIETY

And the bishop, Newel K. Whitney, also should travel round about and among all the churches, searching after the poor to administer to their wants by humbling the rich and the proud (dc 84.112).

​READINGS ON ATONEMENT

Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also (john 14.1-3).