Daily Scripture Reading for the
Liturgical Calendar Year
(beginning the 1st Sunday of Advent)

April 30, 2008

Text taken from the
Third Millennium Bible^® (TMB^®)
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The Lectionary According to the Christian Seasons

Acts 17:15-34

15 And those who conducted Paul brought him unto Athens and, having received direction for Silas and Timothy to come to him with all speed, they departed.

16 Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred within him when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry. 17 Therefore he disputed in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the marketplace daily with those who met with him. 18 Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans and of the Stoics encountered him. And some said, "What will this babbler say?" And some others said, "He seemeth to be a proclaimer of strange gods," because he preached unto them Jesus and the resurrection. 19 And they took him and brought him unto the Areopagus, saying, "May we know what this new doctrine is whereof thou speakest? 20 For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears, and we would know therefore what these things mean." 21 (For all the Athenians and strangers who were there spent their time in nothing else than either telling or hearing some new thing.)

22 Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' Hill and said, "Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. 23 For as I passed by and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription: `To the Unknown God'. Whom therefore ye worship in ignorance, Him I declare unto you. 24 God who made the world and all things therein, seeing that He is Lord of Heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands. 25 Neither is He worshiped with men's hands, as though He needed anything, seeing He giveth to all life, and breath, and all things. 26 And He hath made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation, 27 that they should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might feel after Him and find Him, though He be not far from every one of us. 28 For in Him we live, and move, and have our being; as also certain of your own poets have said, `For we are also His offspring.'

29 "For inasmuch, then, as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold or silver or stone, graven by art and of man's devising. 30 The times of this ignorance God overlooked, but now He commandeth all men everywhere to repent, 31 because He hath appointed a Day in which He will judge the world in righteousness by that Man whom He hath ordained. Of this He hath given assurance unto all men, in that He hath raised Him from the dead."

32 But when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked and others said, "We will hear thee again on this matter."

33 So Paul departed from among them. 34 However, certain men cleaved unto him and believed, among whom were Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

Acts 18:1

1 After these things, Paul departed from Athens and came to Corinth.

Psalm 148

1 Praise ye the LORD! Praise ye the LORD from the heavens;
praise Him in the heights!
2 Praise ye Him, all His angels;
praise ye Him, all His hosts!
3 Praise ye Him, sun and moon;
praise Him, all ye stars of light!
4 Praise Him, ye heavens of heavens,
and ye waters that be above the heavens!
5 Let them praise the name of the LORD,
for He commanded and they were created.
6 He hath also established them for ever and ever;
He hath made a decree which shall not pass.

7 Praise the LORD from the earth,
ye dragons and all deeps,
8 fire and hail, snow and vapors,
stormy wind fulfilling His word,
9 mountains and all hills,
fruitful trees and all cedars,
10 beasts and all cattle,
creeping things and flying fowl,
11 kings of the earth and all people,
princes and all judges of the earth,
12 both young men and maidens,
old men and children.
13 Let them praise the name of the LORD, for His name alone is excellent;
His glory is above the earth and heaven.

14 He also exalteth the horn of His people,
the praise of all His saints,
even of the children of Israel,
a people near unto Him. Praise ye the LORD!

Words of Worship - John 14:16

And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you for ever"

John 16:12-15

12 "I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. 13 However when He, the Spirit of Truth, is come, He will guide you into all truth; for He shall not speak from Himself, but whatsoever He shall hear, that shall He speak; and He will show you things to come. 14 He shall glorify Me, for He shall receive of Mine, and shall show it unto you. 15 All things that the Father hath are Mine; therefore I said that He shall take of Mine, and shall show it unto you. 

Words of Wisdom - Ecclesiasticus 19:12

As an arrow that sticketh in a man's thigh, 
so is a word within a fool's belly. 

Jesus Speaks Morals & Values - Luke 11:39-41
         (see UniversalJesusSpeaks.info for more information)

 "Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter, but
your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness. Ye fools! Did not He that
made that which is without, make that which is within also? But rather give
alms of such things as ye have; and behold, all things are clean unto you.