The Daily Watchwords or Losungen is an annual, globally distributed publication of the Moravian Church.

It was started on 3 May 1728 and is now published in 50 languages, making it the oldest and most widely read daily devotional work in the world. Old Testament

Old Testament

The Old Testament, of which Christians hold different views, is a Christian term for the religious writings of ancient Israel held sacred and inspired by Christians which overlaps with the 24-book canon of the Masoretic Text of Judaism...

 texts, the "Watchwords" are chosen by lot annually in Herrnhut

Herrnhut

Herrnhut is a municipality in the district of Görlitz, in the Free State of Saxony, Germany.It has access to Bundesstraße 178 between Löbau and Zittau...

 from a collection of 1200 verses. New Testament

New Testament

The New Testament is the second major division of the Christian biblical canon, the first such division being the much longer Old Testament....

 texts, the "Doctrinal Texts", are then selected to comment on the Watchwords.

Total annual circulation is over 1.5 million copies.

This is an ecumenical ministry of the worldwide Moravian Unity

Unitas Fratrum

This article is about the coordinating body of the Moravian Church worldwide. For the Christian denomination based in Texas see Unity of the Brethren....

 that transcends confessional, political and racial barriers of all kinds.

The Moravian Daily Texts service of the Moravian Church in North America

American Provinces of the Moravian Church

The Moravian Church in America is part of the world wide Moravian Church Unity. It dates from the arrival of the first Moravian missionaries to the United States in 1735, from their Herrnhut settlement in present-day Saxony, Germany. They came to minister to the scattered German immigrants, to the...

makes available by email each day's Watchwords.