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1 month ago | 
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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1 month ago | 
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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1 month ago | 
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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1 month ago | 
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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1 month ago | 
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.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
livingchurch.org | David Baumann
Daily Devotional • November 16A Reading from Luke 16:10-1810 “Whoever is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much, and whoever is dishonest in a very little is dishonest also in much. 11 If, then, you have not been faithful with the dishonest wealth, who will entrust to you the true riches? 12 And if you have not been faithful with what belongs to another, who will give you what is your own?
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
livingchurch.org | David Baumann
Daily Devotional • November 15A Reading from Luke 16:1-91 Then Jesus said to the disciples, “There was a rich man who had a manager, and charges were brought to him that this man was squandering his property. 2 So he summoned him and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Give me an accounting of your management because you cannot be my manager any longer.’ 3 Then the manager said to himself, ‘What will I do, now that my master is taking the position away from me?
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
livingchurch.org | David Baumann
Daily Devotional • November 14A Reading from Luke 15:1-2, 11-321 Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming near to listen to him. 2 And the Pharisees and the scribes were grumbling and saying, “This fellow welcomes sinners and eats with them.”11 Then Jesus said, “There was a man who had two sons. 12 The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of the wealth that will belong to me.’ So he divided his assets between them.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
livingchurch.org | David Baumann
Daily Devotional • November 13A Reading from Luke 15:1-101 Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming near to listen to him. 2 And the Pharisees and the scribes were grumbling and saying, “This fellow welcomes sinners and eats with them.”3 So he told them this parable: 4 “Which one of you, having a hundred sheep and losing one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the one that is lost until he finds it?
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
livingchurch.org | David Baumann
Daily Devotional • November 12A Reading from Luke 14:25-3525 Now large crowds were traveling with him, and he turned and said to them, 26 “Whoever comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and even life itself, cannot be my disciple. 27 Whoever does not carry the cross and follow me cannot be my disciple. 28 For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not first sit down and estimate the cost, to see whether he has enough to complete it?
