Our commemoration today is for Esther, and we take our devotional reading from God’s Word for Today: Esther.

Today we commemorate two ninth-century missionaries, Cyril and Methodius, and our devotional reading comes from The Church from Age to Age.

Today’s commemoration is of Frederick the Wise, so our devotional reading comes from the biography Frederick the Wise: Seen and Unseen Lives of Martin Luther’s Protector.

As we remember Johannes Bugenhagen, pastor to Martin Luther, we read a brief biographical excerpt about Bugenhagen from Celebrating the Saints.

On the commemoration of Joseph, we read a devotion taken from The Great Works of God Parts Three and Four: The Mysteries of Christ in the Book of Genesis, Chapters 16–50.

For today’s commemoration, we read a short biography of Polycarp taken from One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism: Christians Through the Centuries.

For our devotional reading commemorating Martin Luther, we turn to Luther: Biography of a Reformer.

Today we commemorate three theologians from the fourth century. We read about them in an excerpt from Celebrating the Saints.

The devotional reading for the commemoration of Daniel and the three young men comes from Concordia Commentary: Daniel, focusing on Daniel 6:20–24 (English translation 6:19–23).