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2 weeks ago | 
livingchurch.org | David Baumann
Daily Devotional • June 14A Reading from 1 Samuel 4:1b-111b In those days the Philistines mustered for war against Israel, and Israel went out to battle against them; they encamped at Ebenezer, and the Philistines encamped at Aphek. 2 The Philistines drew up in line against Israel, and when the battle was joined, Israel was defeated by the Philistines, who killed about four thousand men on the field of battle.
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1 month ago | 
livingchurch.org | David Baumann
Daily Devotional • May 24A Reading from Luke 9:1-171 Then Jesus called the twelve together and gave them power and authority over all demons and to cure diseases, 2 and he sent them out to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal the sick. 3 He said to them, “Take nothing for your journey: no staff, nor bag, nor bread, nor money—not even an extra tunic. 4 Whatever house you enter, stay there, and leave from there.
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2 months ago | 
livingchurch.org | David Baumann
Daily Devotional • April 26A Reading from John 16:16-3316 “A little while, and you will no longer see me, and again a little while, and you will see me.” 17 Then some of his disciples said to one another, “What does he mean by saying to us, ‘A little while, and you will no longer see me, and again a little while, and you will see me’; and ‘Because I am going to the Father’?” 18 They said, “What does he mean by this ‘a little while’?
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2 months ago | 
livingchurch.org | David Baumann
Daily Devotional • April 21A Reading from John 14:1-141 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in me. 2 In my Father’s house there are many dwelling-places. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, so that where I am, there you may be also.
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2 months ago | 
livingchurch.org | David Baumann
Daily Devotional • April 20EasterA Reading from Isaiah 51:9-119 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord!Awake, as in days of old, the generations of long ago!Was it not you who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the dragon? 10 Was it not you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep;who made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to cross over?
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Mar 1, 2025 | 
livingchurch.org | David Baumann
Daily Devotional • March 1A Reading from Ruth 4:1-171 No sooner had Boaz gone up to the gate and sat down there than the next-of-kin of whom Boaz had spoken came passing by. So Boaz said, “Come over; sit down here.” And he went over and sat down. 2 Then Boaz took ten men of the elders of the town and said, “Sit down here,” so they sat down. 3 He then said to the next-of-kin, “Naomi, who has come back from the country of Moab, is selling the parcel of land that belonged to our kinsman Elimelech.
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Feb 27, 2025 | 
livingchurch.org | David Baumann
Daily Devotional • Februrary 27A Reading from Ruth 2:14-2314 At mealtime Boaz said to her, “Come here and eat some of this bread and dip your morsel in the sour wine.” So she sat beside the reapers, and he heaped up for her some parched grain. She ate until she was satisfied, and she had some left over. 15 When she got up to glean, Boaz instructed his young men, “Let her glean even among the standing sheaves, and do not reproach her.
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Feb 26, 2025 | 
livingchurch.org | David Baumann
Daily Devotional • Februrary 26A Reading from Ruth 2:1-131 Now Naomi had a kinsman on her husband’s side, a prominent rich man of the family of Elimelech whose name was Boaz. 2 And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, “Let me go to the field and glean among the ears of grain behind someone in whose sight I may find favor.” She said to her, “Go, my daughter.” 3 So she went. She came and gleaned in the field behind the reapers.
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Feb 25, 2025 | 
livingchurch.org | David Baumann
Daily Devotional • Februrary 25A Reading from Ruth 1:15-2215 So she said, “Look, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods; return after your sister-in-law.” 16 But Ruth said,“Do not press me to leave you,to turn back from following you!Where you go, I will go;where you lodge, I will lodge;your people shall be my peopleand your God my God.
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Feb 24, 2025 | 
livingchurch.org | David Baumann
Daily Devotional • Februrary 24A Reading from Ruth 1:1-141 In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land, and a certain man of Bethlehem in Judah went to live in the country of Moab, he and his wife and two sons. 2 The name of the man was Elimelech and the name of his wife Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion; they were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah. They went into the country of Moab and remained there.
