by Christian Education | Jul 20, 2025 | Cleansing the Temple
Sunday, July 20 Zeal for God’s House John 2:13-25 He told those who were selling the doves, “Take these things out of here! Stop making my Father’s house a marketplace!” John 2:16 NRSV Be passionate about creating and maintaining a space the Lord can fill and be proud...
by Christian Education | Jul 19, 2025 | Cleansing the Temple
Saturday, July 19 The Lord Appears in the Temple Malachi 3:1-6 See, I am sending my messenger to prepare the way before me, and the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple. The messenger of the covenant in whom you delight—indeed, he is coming, says the...
by Christian Education | Jul 18, 2025 | Cleansing the Temple
Friday, July 18 The False Security of Religious Posturing Jeremiah 7:1-15 For if you truly amend your ways and your doings, if you truly act justly one with another, if you do not oppress the alien, the orphan, and the widow, or shed innocent blood in this place, and...
by Christian Education | Jul 17, 2025 | Cleansing the Temple
Thursday, July 17 God Doesn’t Live in Human Shrines Acts 17:22-34 The God who made the world and everything in it, he who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in shrines made by human hands, nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he...
by Christian Education | Jul 16, 2025 | Cleansing the Temple
Wednesday, July 16 Guard Your Steps in God’s House Ecclesiastes 5:1-7 Guard your steps when you go to the house of God; to draw near to listen is better than the sacrifice offered by fools; for they do not know how to keep from doing evil. Ecclesiastes 5:1 Be an...
by Christian Education | Jul 15, 2025 | Cleansing the Temple
Tuesday, July 15 Unalloyed Worship 1 Timothy 2:1-8 First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for everyone, for kings and all who are in high positions, so that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all...
