Daily Scripture Reading for the
Liturgical Calendar Year
(beginning the 1st Sunday of Advent)

September 24, 2010

Text taken from the
Third Millennium Bible^® (TMB^®)
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The Lectionary According to the Christian Seasons

Ecclesiastes 3:1-11

1 To every thing there is a season, 
and a time for every purpose under the heaven: 
2 a time to be born, and a time to die; 
a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; 
3 a time to kill, and a time to heal; 
a time to break down, and a time to build up; 
4 a time to weep, and a time to laugh; 
a time to mourn, and a time to dance; 
5 a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; 
a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; 
6 a time to get, and a time to lose; 
a time to keep, and a time to cast away; 
7 a time to rend, and a time to sew; 
a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; 
8 a time to love, and a time to hate; 
a time of war, and a time of peace. 

9 What profit hath he that worketh in that for which he laboreth? 10 I have seen the travail which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it. 11 He hath made every thing beautiful in his time. Also He hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.

Psalm 144

1 Blessed be the LORD my strength,
who teacheth my hands to war and my fingers to fight;
2 my goodness and my fortress, my high tower and my deliverer,
my shield and He in whom I trust, who subdueth my people under me.

3 LORD, what is man that Thou takest notice of him?
Or the son of man that Thou makest account of him?
4 Man is like vanity;
his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

5 Bow Thy heavens, O LORD, and come down;
touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
6 Cast forth lightning and scatter them;
shoot out Thine arrows and destroy them.
7 Send Thine hand from above;
rescue me and deliver me out of great waters from the hand of strangers,
8 whose mouth speaketh vanity
and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

9 I will sing a new song unto Thee, O God;
upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto Thee.
10 It is He that giveth salvation unto kings,
who delivereth David His servant from the hurtful sword.
11 Rescue me and deliver me from the hand of strangers,
whose mouth speaketh vanity and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood,
12 that our sons may be as plants full grown in their youth,
that our daughters may be as cornerstones, polished after the similitude of a palace;
13 that our garners may be full, affording all manner of store,
that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets;
14 that our oxen may be strong to labor, that there be no breaking in, nor going out,
that there be no complaining in our streets.

15 Happy is that people for whom such is the case;
yea, happy is that people whose God is the LORD.

Words of Worship - Mark 10:45

For even the Son of Man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister and to give His life as a ransom for many."

Luke 9:18-22

18 And it came to pass as He was alone praying, His disciples were with Him, and He asked them, saying,

"Who say the people that I am?"

19 They answering said, "John the Baptist; but some say Elijah, and others say that one of the old prophets has risen again." 20 He said to them,

"But who say ye that I am?"

Peter answering said, "The Christ of God!" 21 And He strictly charged them and commanded them to tell no man this thing, 22 saying,

"The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and scribes, and be slain and be raised the third day."

Words of Wisdom - Proverbs 28:1

The wicked flee when no man pursueth,
but the righteous are bold as a lion.

Jesus Speaks Morals & Values - Mark 4:3-8, 13-20

Mark 4:1-20 

"Hearken! Behold, there went out a sower to sow. And it came to pass as he sowed, some seed fell by the wayside; and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up. And some fell on stony ground where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth. But when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away. And some fell among thorns; and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no fruit. And other fell on good ground; and it yielded fruit that sprang up and increased and brought forth: some thirty, and some sixty, and some a hundredfold." 

And He said unto them, 

"Know you not this parable? And how then will ye know all parables? The sower soweth the Word. And these are they by the wayside, where the Word is sown; but when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately and taketh away the Word that was sown in their hearts. And these are they likewise which are sown on stony ground who, when they have heard the Word, immediately receive it with gladness; but they have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time. Afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the Word's sake, immediately they are offended. And these are they which are sown among thorns, such as hear the Word, but the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the Word, and it becometh unfruitful. And these are they which are sown on good ground, such as hear the Word and receive it and bring forth fruit: some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some a hundred."