Every day brings new reasons to sing for joy--
a friend who survives potential tragedy,
visitors arrive to relate good news,
the beauty of your creation--
but today I rejoice
because you sent Jesus,
and that he came not to call
the righteous, but sinners
to repentance, for I am
one of them.
Lectionary Readings
Ps. 92; 149; 23;
114
Dan. 6:16-28
3 John 1-15
Luke 5:27-39
Selected Verses
Ps. 92:4
For you, O LORD,
have made me glad by your work;
at the works of your hands I sing for joy.
at the works of your hands I sing for joy.
Dan. 6:23
Then the king
was exceedingly glad and commanded that Daniel be taken up out of the den.
3 John 3
I was overjoyed
when some of the friends arrived and testified to your faithfulness to the
truth, namely how you walk in the truth.
Luke 5:31
Jesus answered
[the complaints of the scribes and Pharisees], "Those who are well have no
need of a physician, but those who are sick; I have come to call not the
righteous but sinners to repentance."
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