Daily Devotions

Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy.—EXODUS 20:8 [JPS]

See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?—ISAIAH 43:19 [NIV]

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.—1 CORINTHIANS 13:4-8 [NIV]

As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another . . . .— I PETER 4:10 [ESV]

A hoary head is a crown of glory; it is gained in a righteous life.—PROVERBS 16:31 [RSV]

Brothers and sisters, if someone is caught in a sin, you who live by the Spirit should restore that person gently.—GALATIANS 6:1 [NIV]

Go forth from your . . . land and from your . . . house to the land that I will show you.—EXODUS 12:1 [JPS]

Each of us should please his neighbors for their good, to build them up.—ROMANS 15:2 [NIV]

Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labor the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.—ECCLESIASTES 8:15 [KJV]

Be still, and know that I am God.—PSALM 46:10 [RSV]