Saturday, April 20 Today's Passage: John 19:31-42 Now it was the day of Preparation, and the next day was to be a special Sabbath. Because the Jewish leaders did not want the bodies left on the crosses during the Sabbath, they asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies taken...
HERE'S WHAT'S COMING UP NEXT WEEK AT FIRST PRES: VIEW THE FULL CALENDAR Sunday, April 21 Jesus is alive, even though He was once dead. What He did on the cross 2,000 years ago transforms us today. Let's celebrate together on Easter, April 21! 6:30 a.m. - Sunrise Service on the Weber Street...
Friday, April 19 Today's Passage: John 19:1-30 Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged. The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head. They clothed him in a purple robe and went up to him again and again, saying, “Hail, king of the...
Thursday, April 18 Today's Passage: John 13:1-17 It was just before the Passover Festival. Jesus knew that the hour had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. The evening meal was in progress...
Wednesday, April 17 Today's Passage: 2 Corinthians 12:6-10 Even if I should choose to boast, I would not be a fool, because I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain, so no one will think more of me than is warranted by what I do or say, or because of these surpassingly great...
The Latin motto of the city of Paris is “Fluctuat Nec Mergitur.” It is a mariner’s saying meaning “buffeted but never sunk,” as though a ship were hit on every side by waves, but never swamped; tempest-tossed, she never goes down. We think of that as we grieve the...
Tuesday, April 16 Today's Passage: Mark 9:30-37 They left that place and passed through Galilee. Jesus did not want anyone to know where they were, because he was teaching his disciples. He said to them, “The Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men. They...
Monday, April 15 Today's Passage: Matthew 16:21-26 From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the...
Sunday, April 14 Today's Passage: Philippians 2:5-11 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;rather, he made...
Saturday, April 13 Today's Passage: Ephesians 4:17-24 So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of...