GENEROSITY
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During the coming week (14-18 April 2025) we’ll pause our journey through the Psalms to focus on moments from Jesus’ final week in Jerusalem. As usual, I encourage you to read and prayerfully reflect on the passage for the day and then to try to write a prayer based on that reading in your journal.
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Daily Readings: Luke 21 and Psalm 37 Jesus looked around and saw rich people dropping their gifts in the Temple treasury, 2 and he also saw a very poor widow dropping in two little copper coins. 3 He said, “I tell you that this poor widow put in more than all the others. 4 For the others offered their gifts from
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Daily Readings: Luke 16 and Psalm 32 26 And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been set in place, so that those who want to go from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us. Jesus’ parable about the unnamed rich man and the beggar named
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Daily Readings: Luke 8 and Psalm 24 It would be very easy to gloss over the opening verses of Luke 8. They stand in the shadows of Jesus’ very dramatic ministry. Jesus has just performed incredible miracles. He has healed the centurion’s son (7:1-10), raised a widow’s only son from the dead (7:11-17), and when
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Daily Readings: 2 Corinthians 9 and Psalm 127 2 Corinthians 9 promises us that when Christians give willingly, freely, joyfully and generously (v.6-7), God uses that generosity to produce many good outcomes. Using an agricultural metaphor, the apostle Paul explains that just as generously sowing seed in the ground later produces a generous crop, so
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Daily Readdings: 2 Corinthians 8 and Psalm 126 In 2 Corinthians 8, Paul wrote again about the offering he was organising for the wellbeing of the famine-stricken Jerusalem Church. He had written to them about this in 1 Corinthians 16, and the Church had responded with great willingness to set aside money regularly and sacrificially
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Daily Readings: 1 Corinthians 16 and Psalm 119:145-160 1 Now about the collection for the Lord’s people: do what I told the Galatian churches to do. 2 On the first day of every week, each one of you should set aside a sum of money in keeping with your income, saving it up, so that when I
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Daily Readings: 3 John 1 and Psalm 51 We can learn a lot from this letter written by John (“the elder”), particularly from the way he describes its recipient, a local Christian named Gaius. The letter was most likely sent as a letter of recommendation and support for those who carried it (one of whom
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Daily Readings: John 15 and Psalm 48 The big idea of Jesus’ metaphor of the Vine and His branches in John 15 is quite clear: Jesus wants us (His disciples) to remain deeply united to Him in an intimate relationship of fellowship and love. The metaphor (and Jesus’ explanation thereof) also promises us that our
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Daily Readings: Matthew 25 and Psalm 25 The three parables in Matthew 25 continue the theme of our calling to be faithful to the tasks to which Jesus has called us. Our Lord Jesus calls us to remain faithful at all times. He calls us to be mindful that He is right at hand and
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