Daily Reading & Meditation

Author Don Schwager, Servants of the Word - John 5:17-30 - But Jesus answered them, "My Father is working still, and I am working." This was why the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath but also called God his Father, making himself equal with God. Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing; for whatever he does, that the Son does likewise. For the Father loves the Son, and shows him all that he himself is doing ...

Author Don Schwager, Servants of the Word GOSPEL READING: John 5:1-16 1 After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. […]

Author Don Schwager, Servants of the Word - John 4:43-54 - After the two days he departed to Galilee. For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country. So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, having seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the feast, for they too had gone to the feast. ....

Author Don Schwager, Servants of the Word - Luke 18:9-14 - He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and despised others: "Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, `God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. ...