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June 28, 2026

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Lectionary Theme: Break the Chain: Finding Freedom from Addictions Fifth Sunday after the Feast of Pentecost De-Addiction Day

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    8. But Daniel resolved that he would not defile himself with the royal rations of food and wine; so he asked the palace master to allow him not to defile himself.

    9. Now God allowed Daniel to receive favor and compassion from the palace master.

    10. The palace master said to Daniel, “I am afraid of my lord the king; he has appointed your food and your drink. If he should see you in poorer condition than the other young men of your own age, you would endanger my head with the king.”

    11. Then Daniel asked the guard whom the palace master had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah:

    12. “Please test your servants for ten days. Let us be given vegetables to eat and water to drink.

    13. You can then compare our appearance with the appearance of the young men who eat the royal rations, and deal with your servants according to what you observe.”

    14. So he agreed to this proposal and tested them for ten days.

    15. At the end of ten days it was observed that they appeared better and fatter than all the young men who had been eating the royal rations.

    16. So the guard continued to withdraw their royal rations and the wine they were to drink, and gave them vegetables.

    17. To these four young men God gave knowledge and skill in every aspect of literature and wisdom; Daniel also had insight into all visions and dreams.

    18. At the end of the time that the king had set for them to be brought in, the palace master brought them into the presence of Nebuchadnezzar,

    19. and the king spoke with them. And among them all, no one was found to compare with Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah; therefore they were stationed in the king’s court.

    20. In every matter of wisdom and understanding concerning which the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters in his whole kingdom.

    21. And Daniel continued there until the first year of King Cyrus.

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    1. So if you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.

    2. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth,

    3. for you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

    4. When Christ who is your life is revealed, then you also will be revealed with him in glory.

    5. Put to death, therefore, whatever in you is earthly: fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed (which is idolatry).

    6. On account of these the wrath of God is coming on those who are disobedient.

    7. These are the ways you also once followed, when you were living that life.

    8. But now you must get rid of all such things—anger, wrath, malice, slander, and abusive language from your mouth.

    9. Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have stripped off the old self with its practices

    10. and have clothed yourselves with the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge according to the image of its creator.

    11. In that renewal there is no longer Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave and free; but Christ is all and in all!

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    13. Therefore prepare your minds for action; discipline yourselves; set all your hope on the grace that Jesus Christ will bring you when he is revealed.

    14. Like obedient children, do not be conformed to the desires that you formerly had in ignorance.

    15. Instead, as he who called you is holy, be holy yourselves in all your conduct;

    16. for it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”

    17. If you invoke as Father the one who judges all people impartially according to their deeds, live in reverent fear during the time of your exile.

    18. You know that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold,

    19. but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without defect or blemish.

    20. He was destined before the foundation of the world, but was revealed at the end of the ages for your sake.

    21. Through him you have come to trust in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are set on God.

    22. Now that you have purified your souls by your obedience to the truth so that you have genuine mutual love, love one another deeply from the heart.

    23. You have been born anew, not of perishable but of imperishable seed, through the living and enduring word of God.

    24. For “All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls,

    25. but the word of the Lord endures forever.” That word is the good news that was announced to you.

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    1. They came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gerasenes.

    2. And when he had stepped out of the boat, immediately a man out of the tombs with an unclean spirit met him.

    3. He lived among the tombs; and no one could restrain him any more, even with a chain;

    4. for he had often been restrained with shackles and chains, but the chains he wrenched apart, and the shackles he broke in pieces; and no one had the strength to subdue him.

    5. Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was always howling and bruising himself with stones.

    6. When he saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and bowed down before him;

    7. and he shouted at the top of his voice, “What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, do not torment me.”

    8. For he had said to him, “Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!”

    9. Then Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” He replied, “My name is Legion; for we are many.”

    10. He begged him earnestly not to send them out of the country.

    11. Now there on the hillside a great herd of swine was feeding;

    12. and the unclean spirits begged him, “Send us into the swine; let us enter them.”

    13. So he gave them permission. And the unclean spirits came out and entered the swine; and the herd, numbering about two thousand, rushed down the steep bank into the sea, and were drowned in the sea.

    14. The swineherds ran off and told it in the city and in the country. Then people came to see what it was that had happened.

    15. They came to Jesus and saw the demoniac sitting there, clothed and in his right mind, the very man who had had the legion; and they were afraid.

    16. Those who had seen what had happened to the demoniac and to the swine reported it.

    17. Then they began to beg Jesus to leave their neighborhood.

    18. As he was getting into the boat, the man who had been possessed by demons begged him that he might be with him.

    19. But Jesus refused, and said to him, “Go home to your friends, and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and what mercy he has shown you.”

    20. And he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him; and everyone was amazed. A Girl Restored to Life and a Woman Healed