Daily Bible Readinghttps://elca.org/Faith/DailyBible/John 15:9-17https://elca.org/Faith/DailyBible/3866https://elca.org/Faith/DailyBible/3866<div class="ExternalClass3EFBDE805AF144F38325095C25A2BE39"><p><strong>​Sixth Sunday of Easter</strong><br></p><p><sup>9</sup>As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love. <sup>10</sup>If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love. <sup>11</sup>I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete.</p><p><sup>12</sup>This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. <sup>13</sup>No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends. <sup>14</sup>You are my friends if you do what I command you. <sup>15</sup>I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father. <sup>16</sup>You did not choose me but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name. <sup>17</sup>I am giving you these commands so that you may love one another.<br></p></div>05/05/2024Deuteronomy 32:44-47https://elca.org/Faith/DailyBible/3865https://elca.org/Faith/DailyBible/3865<div class="ExternalClass90E7FE1A9D614F288899D2A55DE38D24"><p>​<sup>44</sup>Moses came and recited all the words of this song in the hearing of the people, he and Joshua son of Nun. <sup>45</sup>When Moses had finished reciting all these words to all Israel, <sup>46</sup>he said to them&#58; &quot;Take to heart all the words that I am giving in witness against you today; give them as a command to your children, so that they may diligently observe all the words of this law. <sup>47</sup>This is no trifling matter for you, but rather your very life; through it you may live long in the land that you are crossing over the Jordan to possess.&quot;<br></p></div>05/04/2024Acts 10:34-43https://elca.org/Faith/DailyBible/3864https://elca.org/Faith/DailyBible/3864<div class="ExternalClass8CFA0543D94E4ED88C0C199F2AC72BD2"><p>​<sup>34</sup>Then Peter began to speak to them&#58; &quot;I truly understand that God shows no partiality, <sup>35</sup>but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him. <sup>36</sup>You know the message he sent to the people of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ — he is Lord of all. <sup>37</sup>That message spread throughout Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John announced&#58; <sup>38</sup>how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power; how he went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him. <sup>39</sup>We are witnesses to all that he did both in Judea and in Jerusalem. They put him to death by hanging him on a tree; <sup>40</sup>but God raised him on the third day and allowed him to appear, <sup>41</sup>not to all the people but to us who were chosen by God as witnesses, and who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead. <sup>42</sup>He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one ordained by God as judge of the living and the dead. <sup>43</sup>All the prophets testify about him that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.&quot;<br></p></div>05/03/2024Psalm 98https://elca.org/Faith/DailyBible/3863https://elca.org/Faith/DailyBible/3863<div class="ExternalClass1A24C6AC750A4BC486C25085CF48B6B2"><p>​<sup>1</sup>O sing to the LORD a new song,<br> for he has done marvelous things.<br> His right hand and his holy arm<br> have gotten him victory.<br> <sup>2</sup>The LORD has made known his victory;<br> he has revealed his vindication in the sight of the nations.<br> <sup>3</sup>He has remembered his steadfast love and faithfulness<br> to the house of Israel.<br> All the ends of the earth have seen<br> the victory of our God.<br> <sup>4</sup>Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth;<br> break forth into joyous song and sing praises.<br> <sup>5</sup>Sing praises to the LORD with the lyre,<br> with the lyre and the sound of melody.<br> <sup>6</sup>With trumpets and the sound of the horn<br> make a joyful noise before the King, the LORD.<br> <sup>7</sup>Let the sea roar, and all that fills it;<br> the world and those who live in it.<br> <sup>8</sup>Let the floods clap their hands;<br> let the hills sing together for joy<br> <sup>9</sup>at the presence of the LORD, for he is coming<br> to judge the earth.<br> He will judge the world with righteousness,<br> and the peoples with equity.<br></p></div>05/02/2024John 14:8-14https://elca.org/Faith/DailyBible/3859https://elca.org/Faith/DailyBible/3859<div class="ExternalClassD318475153A24DA58C0B6378757101CF"><p><strong>​Philip and James, Apostles</strong><br></p><p><sup>8</sup>Philip said to him, &quot;Lord, show us the Father, and we will be satisfied.&quot; <sup>9</sup>Jesus said to him, &quot;Have I been with you all this time, Philip, and you still do not know me? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Show us the Father'? <sup>10</sup>Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own; but the Father who dwells in me does his works. <sup>11</sup>Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; but if you do not, then believe me because of the works themselves. <sup>12</sup>Very truly, I tell you, the one who believes in me will also do the works that I do and, in fact, will do greater works than these, because I am going to the Father. <sup>13</sup>I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. <sup>14</sup>If in my name you ask me for anything, I will do it.<br></p></div>05/01/2024John 14:8-14https://elca.org/Faith/DailyBible/3862https://elca.org/Faith/DailyBible/3862<div class="ExternalClassA31ABB5AD779469D9B12EA292EBCA053"><p><strong>​Philip and James, Apostles</strong><br></p><p><sup>8</sup>Philip said to him, &quot;Lord, show us the Father, and we will be satisfied.&quot; <sup>9</sup>Jesus said to him, &quot;Have I been with you all this time, Philip, and you still do not know me? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Show us the Father'? <sup>10</sup>Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own; but the Father who dwells in me does his works. <sup>11</sup>Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; but if you do not, then believe me because of the works themselves. <sup>12</sup>Very truly, I tell you, the one who believes in me will also do the works that I do and, in fact, will do greater works than these, because I am going to the Father. <sup>13</sup>I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. <sup>14</sup>If in my name you ask me for anything, I will do it.<br></p></div>05/01/2024