Today's Headlines for Evening Prayer (Friday in 21 Trinity)

First Lesson:  Ecclesiastes 11
How to get along despite one's ignorance of the works of God.


Second Lesson: Matthew 23:25-39
More "woes" directed to the scribes and pharisees, and a lament over Jerusalem.

Today's Headlines for Morning Prayer (Friday in 21 Trinity)

First Lesson:  2 Kings 9:30-37
Jezebel breathes her last.


Second Lesson:  2 Timothy 4:1-8
THE charge to all ministers of the gospel.

Today's Headlines for Evening Prayer (Thursday in 21 Trinity)

First Lesson: Ecclesiastes 9:11-18
Time and chance happens to everyone.  Wisdom's better than strength... but one sinner destroys much good.


Second Lesson: Matthew 23:13-23
"woes" unto the hypocritical scribes and Pharisees.

Today's Headlines for Morning Prayer (Thursday in 21 Trinity)

First Lesson: 2 Kings 9:17-28
Jehu  bumps off Jezebel's kid Joram and Ahaziah, kings of Israel and Judah, respectively.

Second Lesson: 2 Timothy 3
The last days described. Sin reigns and "silly women" led captive. What will happen to the godly followers of Jesus.

Today's Headlines for Evening Prayer (Wednesday in 21 Trinity)

First Lesson: Ecclesiastes 8:12-9:1
The righteous and wise are in the hand of God.


Second Lesson: Matthew 23:1-12
Advice regarding the scribes and the Pharisees: do as they say, not as they do.

Today's Headlines for Morning Prayer (Wednesday in 21 Trinity)

First Lesson: 2 Kings 9:1-6, 10b-16
Jehu anointed King of Israel - via Elisha's servant.


Second Lesson: 2 Timothy 2:14-26
unfruitful endeavors: profane & vain babblings, Hymenaeus & Philetus' words, iniquity, youthful lusts, gender strifes(!), foolish and unlearned questions.

Today's Headlines for Evening Prayer (Tuesday in 21 Trinity)

First Lesson: Ecclesiastes 6:1-2, 7-12
Many things in life increase vanity.


Second Lesson: Matthew 22:34-46
What is  the greatest commandment, and who is this Christ?

Today's Headlines for Morning Prayer (Tuesday in 21 Trinity)

First Lesson: 2 Kings 6:15-23
Elisha prays God for help. The bands of Syria came no more to Israel.


Second Lesson: 2 Timothy 1:15-2:13
Two dullards: Phygellus and Hermogenes. More instruction to Timothy.

Today's Headlines for Evening Prayer (Monday in 21 Trinity)

First Lesson: Ecclesiastes 5:8-20
What, specifically, a person loves defines him.


Second Lesson: Matthew 22:15-33
What is Caesar's and what is God's?  In heaven, what about marriage?

Today's Headlines for Morning Prayer (Monday in 21 Trinity)

First Lesson: 2 Kings 6:8-14
King of Syria wants to talk with Elisha.

Second Lesson: 2 Timothy 1:1-14
God's gives His people a spirit of power, not of fear.

Today's Headlines for Evening Prayer (Sunday in 21 Trinity)

First Lesson: Genesis 15:1-6
Be cool, Abram.  You're mine!


Second Lesson: Romans 4:1-8
Does God impute sin to those who "work not?"

Today's Headlines for Morning Prayer (Sunday in 21 Trinity)

First Lesson: Isaiah 59:15b-21
A "foretaste" of the armour of God.


Second Lesson: 2 Corinthians 10:1-7, 17-18
"... though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh..."

Today's Headlines for Evening Prayer (Saturday in 20 Trinity)

First Lesson: Ecclesiastes 5:1-7
Don't be a fool, and don't talk too much.


Second Lesson: Matthew 21:33-46
The parable of the householder, and the kingdom of God. Guess who He's talking about!

Today's Headlines for Morning Prayer (Saturday in 20 Trinity)

First Lesson: 1 Kings 5:20-27
Gehazi dupes Naaman and lies to Elisha.


Second Lesson: 1 Timothy 6:12-21
Yeah, being faithful is tough.

Today's Headlines for Evening Prayer (Friday in 20 Trinity)

First Lesson: Ecclesiastes 3:16-22
"God shall judge the righteous and the wicked."

Second Lesson:  Matthew 21:17-32
"All things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive." Two ways of life = the two sons in the vineyard.

Today's Headlines for Morning Prayer (Friday in 20 Trinity)

First Lesson: 2 Kings 5:9-19

Naaman goes to Elisha. Pride gets in the way... almost. "Now I know..."

Second Lesson: 1 Timothy 6:1-11

"The love of money is the root of all evil."

Today's Headlines for Evening Prayer (Thursday in 20 Trinity)

First Lesson:  Ecclesiastes 3:1-2, 915
To everything there is a season...


Second Lesson:  Matthew 21:1-16
The entry into Jerusalem, cleansing of the temple and healings, priests and scribes "sore displeased."

Today's Headlines for Morning Prayer (Thursday in 20 Trinity)

First Lesson: 2 Kings 5:1-8
Good guy Naaman's approach for healing.


Second Lesson: 1 Timothy 5:17-25
Regarding elders,  showing preference, sins and good works.

Today's Headlines for Evening Prayer (Wednesday in 20 Trinity)

The First Lesson: Ecclesiastes 2:18-26
Who gets your labour when you die. What God gives to a good man and to a sinner.


The Second Lesson: Matthew 20:17-34
Jesus tells his disciples what's coming down the road for Him, and He is asked a favor by the mother of James and John.

Today's Headlines for Morning Prayer (Wednesday in 20 Trinity)

The First Lesson: 2 Kings 4:25b-37
Elisha raises up the Shunammite woman's son.


The Second Lesson:  1 Timothy 5:1-16
How to treat others... elders, younger folk, widows.  Who takes care of whom.

Today's Headlines for Evening Prayer (Tuesday in 20 Trinity)

First Lesson: Ecclesiastes 2:1-11
Worldly pursuits are "vanity and vexation of spirit"


Second Lesson: Matthew 20:1-16
Parable of the labourers in the vineyard.  Last first; first last.

Today's Headlines for Morning Prayer (Tuesday in 20 Trinity)

First Lesson: 2 Kings 4:18-25a
The woman's son dies, and she goes to fetch Elisha.


Second Lesson: 1 Timothy 4:6-16
Godly advice to a man of God.

Today's Headlines for Evening Prayer (Monday in 20 Trinity)

The First Lesson: Ecclesiastes 1:2-11
"Vanity of vanities; all is vanity." Two weeks of readings from Ecclesiastes!


The Second Lesson: Matthew 19:16-30
The recipe for eternal life... for rich and poor.

Today's Headlines for Morning Prayer (Monday in 20 Trinity)

The First Lesson: 2 Kings 4:8-17
God cares for Elisha and the Shunammite woman.


The Second Lesson: 1 Timothy 3:14-4:5
A magnificent description of the Incarnation in verse sixteen.

Today's Headlines for Evening Prayer (Sunday in 20 Trinity)

The First Lesson:  Jeremiah 31:31-37
A new covenant between God and Israel.


The Second Lesson: John 13:31-35
Jesus gives His disciples a new commandment.

Today's Headlines for Morning Prayer (Sunday in 20 Trinity)

The First Lesson:  Malachi 2:14-17
Malachi speaks of marriage.


The Second Lesson: Matthew 19:3-9a, 13-15
Jesus speaks of marriage.

Today's Headlines for Evening Prayer (Saturday in 19 Trinity)

First Lesson: Job 42:1-9
Job speaks to God, and repents. God upbraids Eliphaz, Bildad and zophar. God accepts Job.


Second Lesson: Matthew 19:1-15
Pharisees tempt (test) Jesus via question about marriage. Children are brought to Jesus.

Today's Headlines for Morning Prayer (Saturday in 19 Trinity)

First Lesson: 2 Kings 2:1-15
Elijah, Elisha and the whirlwind.


Second Lesson:  1 Timothy 3:1-13
Qualities of a bishop and deacon.

Today's Headlines for Evening Prayer (Friday in 19 Trinity)

First Lesson:  Job 39:19-30
The questioning, instruction continues.


Second Lesson: Matthew 18:15-35
How to deal with an "offender" and forgiving others.

Today's Headlines for Morning Prayer (Friday in 19 Trinity)

First Lesson: 2 Kings 1:2-8, 17a
Elijah gives the news that Ahaziah will die... and he did.

Second Lesson: 1 Timothy 2:1-10
Pray for them all, and caution to both men and women.

Today's Headlines for Evening Prayer (Thursday in 19 Trinity)

First Lesson: Job 38:31-38
The LORD's questioning, proclamations continue.


Second Lesson: Matthew 18:1-14
The greatest in the kingdom of heaven.  The handless, footless, eyeless can "enter into life."

Today's Headlines for Morning Prayer (Thursday in 19 Trinity)

First Lesson: 1 Kings 22:29-40
Jehoshaphat lives through the battle, Ahab dies, and his son Ahaziah reigns in his place.


Second Lesson: 1 Timothy 1:12-20
Why God had mercy on Paul, formerly "a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious." 

Today's Headlines for Evening Prayer (Wednesday in 19 Trinity)

First Lesson: Job 38:19-30
The LORD continues to speak "in the whirlwind." God "dumbfounds" his creation - man, who believes himself to be intellectually gifted.


Second Lesson: Matthew 17:14-27
Man with a lunatic son asks Jesus for help... the mustard seed... what's going to happen to "the Son of man."

All Souls Day

Today is All Souls Day, the day we pray for those who have died and gone before us.  Click on the title above, and you will be taken to a list of folk for which we offer our prayers this day.  If you wish your Loved Ones to be added to the list, email me at AllSoulsPrayerRequest@episcopalnet.org, which is "embedded" at the end of the listing of Loved Ones.

Today's Headlines for Morning Prayer (Wednesday in 19 Trinity)

First Lesson: 1 Kings 22:13-28
The prophet Micaiah speaks truthfully - victory forthcoming, but "someone" dies.

Second Lesson: 1 Timothy 1:1-11
Paul writes to Timothy with godly advice/admonition... regarding jangling, teaching, the true "end of the commandment," etcetera.

Today's Headlines for Evening Prayer (Tuesday in 19 Trinity)

First Lesson: Job 38:1-11, 16-18
God speaks to Job out of the whirlwind.

Second Lesson: Matthew 17:1-13
The Transfiguration with Peter, James, John, Moses and Elias

Today's Headlines for Morning Prayer (Tuesday in 19 Trinity)

First Lesson: 1 Kings 22:1-12
Ahab and Jehoshaphat align themselves, seek counsel from the prophets, and make ready for war.


Second Lesson: James 5:12-20
James encourages his readers to godliness rather than worldly.

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