I am an emeritus professor from Cornell University and was a Commissioned Lay Preacher in the Presbyterian Church (USA). For many years I have followed the Daily Lectionary as printed in the Mission Yearbook of my church. For each day of a two-year cycle, the lectionary lists four psalms and three other scriptural passages--usually one from the Old Testament and two from the New Testament. My practice is to copy down a verse or two from one of the psalms and from each of the other three passages. After I have written out all four selections, I reflect upon them, rearrange their order, and incorporate them into a meditation. Sometimes I retain much of the original wording; sometimes all that remains of a selection is an idea that was stimulated when I read the original words. All selections are from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible. For the Daily Lectionary, see the link below.

Truth from the Heart--Sept. 18, 2019



Lord Jesus, when you proclaimed the good news
of the kingdom, great crowds followed you.
Grant us wisdom to discern your word,
courage to speak it from our heart.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 15; 147:1-11; 48; 4
1 Kings 22:1-28
1 Cor. 2:1-13
Matt. 4:18-25

Selected Verses
Ps. 15:1-2
O LORD, who may abide in your tent?
          Who may dwell on your holy hill?
Those who walk blamelessly, and do what is right,
          and speak the truth from their heart…

1 Kings 22:14
But Micaiah said, “As the LORD lives, whatever the LORD says to me, that I will speak.”

1 Cor. 2:7
But we speak God’s wisdom, secret and hidden, which God decreed before the ages for our glory. 

Matt. 4:23
Jesus went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and curing every disease and every sickness among the people.

Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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