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Devotional Reflection, Friday, November 28, 2025 Proper 29, the week of the last Sunday after Pentecost The Rev. David W. Perkins, Th.D. Key phrases for reflection from today’s reading: 18 For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, in order to bring you to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit, 19in which also he went and made a proclamation to the spirits in prison . . . . 6For this is the reason the gospe

Devotional Reflection, Thursday, November 23, 2023 Thanksgiving Day The Rev. David W. Perkins, Th.D. Key phrases for reflection from today’s Old Testament reading: 5you shall make this response before the LORD your God: “A wandering Aramean was my ancestor; he went down into Egypt and lived there as an alien, few in number, and there he became a great nation, mighty and populous. 6When the Egyptians treated us harshly and afflicted us, by imposing hard labor on us, 7we c

Devotional Reflection, Wednesday, November 26, 2025 Proper 29, the week of the last Sunday after Pentecost The Rev. David W. Perkins, Th.D. Key phrases for reflection from today’s Old Testament reading: 15For the day of the LORD is near against all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you; your deeds shall return on your own head. 16For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, all the nations around you shall drink; they shall drink and gulp down, and shall be as

Devotional Reflection, Tuesday, November 25, 2025 Proper 29, the week of the last Sunday after Pentecost The Rev. David W. Perkins, Th.D. Key phrases for reflection from today’s Old Testament reading: 1:1An oracle concerning Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum of Elkosh. 2 A jealous and avenging God is the LORD, the LORD is avenging and wrathful; the LORD takes vengeance on his adversaries and rages against his enemies. 3The LORD is slow to anger but great in power, and