EASTER  – MONDAY  LESSON: REVELATION 1:4-8  He is not ashamed to call them brethren. Hebrews 2:11  The fact that Christ receives such abandoned wretches as you and me and calls us brethren is a fact full of all consolation for us. If Christ is our brother, I would like to know what we still lack?  The...

EASTER – SUNDAY LESSON: MARK 16:1-8 Then Jesus said to them, “Do not be afraid; go and tell my brethren to go to Galilee, and there they will see me.” Matthew 28:10 Jesus Himself pointed out the benefit of His suffering, death, and resurrection when He said to the women, “Do not be afraid; go...

HOLY WEEK – SATURDAY LESSON: 1 JOHN 5:6-12 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ … destined us in love to be his sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace which he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved. In him we...

HOLY WEEK – GOOD FRIDAY LESSON: 2 CORINTHIANS 5:14, 15 Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God. 1 Peter 3:18 Thorns pricked the sacred head of Christ, but you have actually deserved the pricks of more than a hundred thousand thorns. To be...

HOLY WEEK – MAUNDY THURSDAY LESSON: ROMANS 15:1-6 Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. Galatians 6:2 Not the least part of love or self-surrender is for me to be able to give away my self-conceit or arrogance. I can no doubt give my neighbor temporal good and bodily service with...

HOLY WEEK – WEDNESDAY LESSON: PSALM 19:7-14 They understood none of these things; this saying was hid from them, and they did not grasp what was said. Luke 18:34 What Jesus said to the disciples had no meaning for them at this time. “This saying was hid from them.” This amounts to saying, “Reason, flesh,...

HOLY WEEK – TUESDAY LESSON: HEBREWS 10:1-7 [Christ said,] “‘Lo, I have come to do thy will, O God,’ as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.” Hebrews 10:7 Christ’s sufferings are understood correctly when we do not simply regard the sufferings as such but recognize and grasp His heart and...

HOLY WEEK – MONDAY LESSON: MATTHEW 16:21-23 Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps. 1 Peter 2:21 Jesus spoke the words of Matthew 16:21-23 before He entered upon His suffering, as He was on His way to Jerusalem. His immediate purpose was to celebrate Easter at...

HOLY WEEK – PALM SUNDAY PALM SUNDAY LESSON: MATTHEW 13:45-46 “If anyone keeps my word.” John 8:51 It is quite clear from the context in which these words stand what Jesus means here by “keeping” His Word. He does not mean “keeping” in the sense that “keep” has when one speaks about “keeping” the Law....

LENT – WEEK 5 – SATURDAY LESSON: HEBREWS 1:1-13 Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.” John 8:58 Jesus gives the basis and reason why it is just His Word and not that of anyone else which makes men live. It is simply this: that He “was”...