TRINITY – WEEK 5 – TUESDAY LESSON: 2 THESSALONIANS 3:6-13 When he had ceased speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.” Luke 5:4 Jesus says here in effect: “Let down your nets and do the work that belongs to a fisherman and let Me…

TRINITY – WEEK 5 – MONDAY LESSON: LUKE 12:13-21 Jesus said to his disciples, “Truly, I say to you, it will be hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again, I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich…

TRINITY – WEEK 5 – SUNDAY LESSON: LUKE 5:1-11 When they had done this, they enclosed a great shoal of fish, and as their nets were breaking, they beckoned to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both the boats, so that they began to sink….

TRINITY – WEEK 4 – SATURDAY LESSON: MATTHEW 7:1-5 “Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned.” Luke 6:37 Jesus is speaking here of uncharitable judging and condemnation, forming a good or bad opinion about something that cannot really be seen from the outside but is a…

TRINITY – WEEK 4 – FRIDAY LESSON: MATTHEW 6:1-4 “Do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return.” Luke 6:35 In these words, Jesus outlines a basic Christian principle which involves our earthly property and its use in relieving the needs of our neighbor and helping him. Our earthly property should always be at the disposal…

TRINITY – WEEK 4 – THURSDAY LESSON: JAMES 2:14-17 Brethren, be the more zealous to confirm your call and election, for if you do this you will never fall; so there will be richly provided for you an entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. 2 Peter 1:10-11 Good works…

TRINITY – WEEK 4 – WEDNESDAY LESSON: 2 CORINTHIANS 6:1-2 What have you that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if it were not a gift? I Corinthians 4:7 We must always receive before we can give. Before we practice mercy, we must receive mercy from God….

TRINITY – WEEK 4 – TUESDAY LESSON: HEBREWS 11:17-19 “Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. He who abides in me, and I in him,…

TRINITY – WEEK 4 – MONDAY LESSON: PSALM 89:1-4 The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness. Exodus 34:6 Where mercy is not practiced, there is no Christian faith. If your heart is established in faith, so that you know and realize how merciful…

TRINITY – WEEK 4 – SUNDAY LESSON: LUKE 6:36-42 “Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful.” Luke 6:36 Jesus is not speaking here of the kind of mercy that human reason commends and suggests to us. This is a mercy which is selfish and self-seeking, which gives to those who are important and learned,…