TRINITY – FRIDAY LESSON: MATTHEW 3:13-17 “This is eternal life, that they know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou has sent.” John 17:3 You can have no more sure and certain basis for the deity of Christ than to wrap up your heart in clear passages of Scripture and, in this…

TRINITY – THURSDAY LESSON: PSALM 8 He is Lord of lords and King of kings. Revelation 17:14 In the second psalm, God says to His Son: “Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage and the ends of the earth as your possession” (Psalm 2:8). Here He is clearly appointed as the…

TRINITY – WEDNESDAY LESSON: PSALM 145 We have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son as the Savior of the world. Whosoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. 1 John 4:14-15 Paul says in Romans that God promised the Gospel beforehand through…

TRINITY – TUESDAY LESSON: EPHESIANS 1:3-14 [Jesus Christ] is the true God and eternal life. 1 John 5:20 God has forbidden us to worship any strange gods. Now we are told in John that it is God’s will that His Son should be honored with the honor with which He Himself is honored. John reports…

TRINITY – MONDAY LESSON: PSALM 110:1-4 He [Christ] reflects the glory of God and bears the very stamp of his nature. Hebrews 1:3 The Old Testament sets forth many clear testimonies on the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ. David says: “The Lord says to my lord: ‘Sit at my right hand, till I make…

TRINITY – SUNDAY LESSON: JOHN 3:1-15 The Word was God … And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us. John 1:14 The Sunday after Pentecost has come to be regarded in the Church as the festival of the Holy Trinity. The word Trinity is not found in Holy Scripture; it has been devised and…

EPIPHANY – FRIDAY LESSON: MATTHEW 2:1-12  Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you. Isaiah 60:1   The admonition to “arise” is without doubt spoken to one who has not arisen, that is, to one who is lying asleep, or is dead. I think St. Paul had this…

ADVENT – WEEK 4 – CHRISTMAS EVE LESSON: 1 JOHN 3:1-10  I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness. John 1:23  If you can now believe that the voice of John is true, fix your eyes in the way he is pointing and recognize the Lamb of God who is taking your sin…

ADVENT – WEEK 4 – FRIDAY LESSON: 2 CORINTHIANS 1:12-22  Among you stands one whom you do not know. John 1:26  When John says here, “Among you stands one whom you do not know,” he means to say, “Do not direct your eyes too far into the future! He of whom the prophets have spoken has…

ADVENT – WEEK 4 – THURSDAY LESSON: LUKE 15:1‒10 “Make straight the way of the Lord,” as the prophet Isaiah said. John 1:23 The special office of John was to make straight the way of the Lord, to humble the whole world and tell it that all men in general are sinners, lost, damned, poor,…