JESUS THE KING
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Daily Reading: Acts 17:1-9 Key Verse: “6 …They dragged Jason and some other believers before the city officials, shouting: ‘These men who have caused trouble all over the world have now come here, 7 and Jason has welcomed them into his house. They are all defying Caesar’s decrees, saying that there is another king, one called Jesus.’”
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Daily Reading: Luke19:28-40 As Jesus entered Jerusalem just days before His death, He did so in a way that prophetically declared that He was the Messiah, God’s true Anointed King of the Jews. But He did so in a spirit they had never expected. Make no mistake, this was an incredibly courageous thing to do.
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Having focussed on the Lord as our Salvation last week, this week we turn our attention to readings that proclaim that the Lord is our King. Daily Reading: Psalm 47 Key verse: 2 For the Lord Most High is awesome, the great King over all the earth. It’s most likely that this Psalm was written after God had miraculously
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For the first six weeks of 2024, the devotional blog will follow a similar rhythm to last year, with a daily reading and brief devotional thought related to the previous Sunday’s theme. From mid-February, however, we’ll loosen our connection to the Sunday theme and will start a reading plan that will take us through the
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John 13:1-17 and Philippians 2:1-11 “(Jesus) being in very nature God … … made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant …” (Selected phrases of Philippians 2:6-7) In John 13 we see an example of what the apostle Paul described in Philippians 2. Jesus knew that He was the Son of God by His very
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Matthew 13:55-58 ‘Isn’t this the carpenter’s son? … And they took offence at him. (v.55 and 57) Outside Nazareth, Jesus was less credible and an “underdog” in the eyes of some because He came from Nazareth. (John 1:46) Today’s reading shows us that being the local carpenter’s son (even one known to be a ‘righteous
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Exodus 3:1 – 4:17 Moses said to the Lord, ‘Pardon your servant, Lord. I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue.’ The Lord said to him, ‘Who gave human beings their mouths? Who makes them deaf or mute? Who gives them sight
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1 Samuel 16:1-13 “But the Lord said to Samuel, ‘Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The Lord does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.’” -1 Samuel 16:7 It should come as no surprise to us that the LORD chose
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Matthew 2:19-23 “He went and lived in a town called Nazareth. So was fulfilled what was said through the prophets, that he would be called a Nazarene.” (v.23) This week we move from considering Jesus as the “King of Refugees” to reflecting on Jesus, “King of the Underdogs”. The Cambridge Dictionary defines an “underdog” as
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Psalm 36 This week we are reflecting on what Jesus’ exile to Egypt as a ‘refugee child’ means (See Matthew 2:13-18). What does it teach us? How should it shape us? Today’s passage for our devotional time is Psalm 36, and especially v.7-8. “7 How priceless is your unfailing love, O God! People take refuge in the
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