Our Bible Reading of the Day is Jude 3-4, 12-13, 16-19, 20-25. The book of Jude is a word of exhortation packed into a short letter. Jude, a half-brother of Jesus and a believer, intended to write to his friends in the faith regarding their common salvation, but he suddenly found it necessary to write an appeal urging them to contend for the faith that was delivered to the Saints once for all. This necessity arose because of false teaching that infiltrated the church. Jude filled his exhortation with warnings in the form of allusions to events and biblical history and other stories. In light of these, he called the believers reading his letter to remember the love, mercy, and presence of God and to persevere in the truth.