MERCY
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Daily Readings: Luke 10 and Psalm 26 The parable of the Good Samaritan (v.30-35) is one of Jesus’ best known stories. It’s point is so crystal clear that we risk not seeing the wood for the trees if we dissect it in minute detail. An expert in the Law approached Jesus with a technical question
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Daily Readings: Luke 7 and Psalm 23 In the opening narrative of Luke 7, there is a stark contrast between the approach of the Jewish crowd and that of the centurion. The crowd speaks up on the centurion’s behalf and try to persuade Jesus to heal the centurion’s servant on the basis of the centurion’s
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Daily Readings: Romans 11 and Psalm 107 Personally, I find it more edifying to consider Romans 11 from a birds-eye point of view than to place it under a magnifying glass. Paul’s arguments might feel very convoluted to us, but his two over-riding concerns in this chapter are to encourage Jewish Christians in Rome not
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Daily Readings: Romans 9 and Psalm 105 In Romans 9, the thoroughly Jewish Paul wrestles with a tragic reality. In every city he visited (remember Acts) he had gone first to the synagogues to share the Gospel with the Jews, yet by and large the Gospel was rejected there, and only a small number received
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