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

March 26, 2010

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

Jeremiah 20:10-13

10 For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. 
"Report," say they, "and we will report it!" 
All in my company watched for my halting, saying, "Perhaps he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him; 
and we shall take our revenge on him." 
11 But the LORD is with me as a mighty, fearsome one; 
therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail. 
They shall be greatly ashamed, for they shall not prosper;
their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten. 
12 But, O LORD of hosts, who triest the righteous and seest the reins and the heart, 
let me see Thy vengeance on them, for unto Thee have I opened my cause. 
13 Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD; 
for He hath delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.

Psalm 18:1-15

1 I will love Thee, O LORD, my strength. 
2 The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer; 
my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; 
my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
3 I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised; 
so shall I be saved from mine enemies.

4 The sorrows of death encompassed me, 
and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid. 
5 The sorrows of hell compassed me about; 
the snares of death lay before me. 
6 In my distress I called upon the LORD 
and cried unto my God; 
He heard my voice out of His temple, 
and my cry came before Him, even unto His ears. 
7 Then the earth shook and trembled; 
the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because He was wroth. 
8 There went up smoke out of His nostrils, and a devouring fire out of His mouth; 
coals were kindled by it. 
9 He bowed the heavens also and came down; 
and darkness was under His feet. 
10 And He rode upon a cherub and flew; 
yea, He flew upon the wings of the wind. 
11 He made darkness His secret place; 
His pavilion round about Him was dark waters and thick clouds of the skies. 
12 At the brightness that was before Him, His thick clouds passed, 
hail stones and coals of fire.
13 The LORD also thundered in the heavens, 
and the Highest uttered His voice with hail stones and coals of fire. 
14 Yea, He sent out His arrows and scattered them; 
and He shot out lightnings and discomfited them. 
15 Then the channels of the waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were uncovered 
at Thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of Thy nostrils.

Words of Worship - John 6:63c, 68c

The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. 

Thou hast the words of eternal life,

John 10:31-42

31 Then the Jews took up stones again to stone Him. 32 Jesus answered them,

"Many good works have I shown you from My Father. For which of those works do ye stone Me?"

33 The Jews answered Him, saying, "For a good work we stone thee not, but for blasphemy and because thou, being a man, makest thyself God." 34 Jesus answered them,

"Is it not written in your law, `I said "Ye are gods"'? 35 If He called them gods unto whom the Word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken), 36 do ye say of Him whom the Father hath sanctified and sent into the world, `Thou blasphemest,' because I said, `I am the Son of God'? 37 If I do not the works of My Father, believe Me not. 38 But if I do, though ye believe not Me, believe the works, that ye may know and believe that the Father is in Me, and I in Him."

39 Therefore they sought again to take Him, but He escaped out of their hand, 40 and went away again beyond the Jordan into the place where John had first baptized; and there He abode. 41 And many resorted unto Him and said that John did no miracle, but all things that John spoke of this Man were true. 42 And many believed in Him there.

Words of Wisdom - Ecclesiasticus 13:14

Love the Lord all thy life, 
and call upon Him for thy salvation.

Jesus Speaks Morals & Values - Mark 4:30-32
         (see UniversalJesusSpeaks.info for more information)

"To what shall we liken the Kingdom of God? Or with what comparison shall we compare it? It is like a grain of mustard seed which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that are in the earth. But when it is sown, it groweth up and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches, so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it."