November 6, 2026

17Join with others in being imitators of me, brothers, and observe those who thus conduct themselves according to the model you have in us. 18For many, as I have often told you and now tell you even in tears, conduct themselves as enemies of the cross of Christ. 19Their end is destruction. Their God is their stomach; their glory is in their “shame.” Their minds are occupied with earthly things. 20But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we also await a savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. 21He will change our lowly body to conform with his glorified body by the power that enables him also to bring all things into subjection to himself. 1Therefore, my brothers, whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, in this way stand firm in the Lord, beloved.

1Psalm 122 A Pilgrim’s Prayer for Jerusalem - A song of ascents. Of David. I - I rejoiced when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the LORD.” 2And now our feet are standing within your gates, Jerusalem. 3Jerusalem, built as a city, walled round about. 4There the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, As it was decreed for Israel, to give thanks to the name of the LORD. 5There are the thrones of justice, the thrones of the house of David.

5But whoever keeps his word, the love of God is truly perfected in him. This is the way we may know that we are in union with him:

1Then he also said to his disciples, “A rich man had a steward who was reported to him for squandering his property. 2He summoned him and said, ‘What is this I hear about you? Prepare a full account of your stewardship, because you can no longer be my steward.’ 3The steward said to himself, ‘What shall I do, now that my master is taking the position of steward away from me? I am not strong enough to dig and I am ashamed to beg. 4I know what I shall do so that, when I am removed from the stewardship, they may welcome me into their homes.’ 5He called in his master’s debtors one by one. To the first he said, ‘How much do you owe my master?’ 6He replied, ‘One hundred measures of olive oil.’ He said to him, ‘Here is your promissory note. Sit down and quickly write one for fifty.’ 7Then to another he said, ‘And you, how much do you owe?’ He replied, ‘One hundred kors of wheat.’ He said to him, ‘Here is your promissory note; write one for eighty.’ 8And the master commended that dishonest steward for acting prudently. Application of the Parable. “For the children of this world are more prudent in dealing with their own generation than are the children of light.