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Eager to Benefit Others
Devotional Reflection, Tuesday, October 15, 2025 Proper 23, the week of the eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost The Rev. David W. Perkins, Th.D. Key phrases for reflection from today’s reading: 14:1Pursue love and strive for the spiritual gifts, and especially that you may prophesy. . . .12So with yourselves; since you are eager for spiritual gifts, strive to excel in them for building up the church. You will find the full text of today’s epistle reading at the end of this refl
Love: The Indefinable
Devotional Reflection, Monday, October 13, 2025 Proper 23, the week of the eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost The Rev. David W. Perkins, Th.D. Key phrases for reflection from today’s reading: 4 Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant 5or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. 7It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures a
Living Our Faith in Public Unselfconsciously
Daily Office Devotional, Thursday, September 25, 2025 Proper 20, the week of the fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost The Rev. David W....
Do Not Resist Evil in an Evil Way
Daily Office Devotional, Wednesday, September 24, 2025 Proper 20, the week of the fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost The Rev. David W....
Radical Surgery
Devotional Reflection, Tuesday, September 23, 2025 Proper 20, the week of the fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost The Rev. David W. Perkins,...
Putting Human Dignity at the Center
Devotional Reflection, Monday, September 22, 2025 Proper 20, the week of the fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost The Rev. David W. Perkins,...
Transforming Darkness and Decay
Devotional Reflection, Friday, September 19, 2025 Proper 19, the week of the fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost The Rev. David W. Perkins,...
Preserving the Tension of Grace
Daily Office Devotional, Thursday, September 18, 2025 Proper 19, the week of the sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost The Rev. David W....
The Lurking Jesus
Daily Office Devotional, Wednesday, September 17, 2025 Proper 19, the week of the fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost The Rev. David W....
Darkness Dispelled
Daily Office Devotional, Tuesday, September 16, 2025 Proper 19, the week of the fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost The Rev. David W....
Overcoming Diabolical Interference
Daily Office Devotional, Monday, September 15, 2025 Proper 19, the week of the fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost The Rev. David W....
Surprised into Faith
Devotional Reflection, Friday, September 12, 2025 Proper 18, the week of the thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost The Rev. David W. Perkins,...
Treasuring Difference in Community
Daily Office Devotional, Thursday, September 11, 2025 Proper 18, the week of the thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost The Rev. David W....
Letting Go Into the Mystery
Devotional Reflection, Wednesday, September 10, 2025 Proper 18, the week of the thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost The Rev. David W....
Casting Out Remorse
Devotional Reflection, Tuesday, September 9, 2025 Proper 18, the week of the thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost The Rev. David W....
Expanding the Scope of “Love Your Neighbor as Yourself”
Devotional Reflection, Monday, September 8, 2025 Proper 18, the week of the thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost The Rev. David W. Perkins,...
Doing Spiritual Pushups
Devotional Reflection, Friday, September 5, 2025 Proper 17, the week of the twelfth Sunday after Pentecost The Rev. David W. Perkins,...
Guided by Peaceable Wisdom
Devotional Reflection, Thursday, September 4, 2925 Proper 17, the week of the twelfth Sunday after Pentecost The Rev. David W. Perkins,...
Harvesting Our Failures
Devotional Reflection, Tuesday, September 2, 2025 Proper 17, the week of the twelfth Sunday after Pentecost The Rev. David W. Perkins,...
Courageous But Not Courageous
Devotional Reflection, Monday, September 1, 2025 Proper 17, the week of the twelfth Sunday after Pentecost The Rev. David W. Perkins,...
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