MIRACLES
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Daily Readings: Luke 18 and Psalm 34 40 Jesus stopped and ordered the man to be brought to him. When he came near, Jesus asked him, 41 ‘What do you want me to do for you?’ ‘Lord, I want to see,’ he replied. 42 Jesus said to him, ‘Receive your sight; your faith has healed you.’ In the sovereignty of
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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: 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: Acts 12 and Psalm 80 “Peter was kept in prison, but the church was earnestly praying to God for him.” (v5) There’s that wonderful word, “but”, again. Herod was trying to win some popularity with the Jewish religious authorities. Seeing how enthused they were when he executed the apostle James, he seized Peter,
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Daily Readings: Acts 9 and Psalm 77 The main focus of Acts 9 is clearly Saul’s radical conversion from being a persecutor of Christians to being an outspoken preacher of the Gospel of Jesus Christ who “baffled the Jews living in Damascus by proving that Jesus is the Messiah” . However, the man who caught
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Our daily reading plan now enters the Book of Acts in earnest and we’ll spend a few weeks reading and reflecting on the Spirit-empowered mission of the early Church. Daily Readings: Acts 3 and Psalm 71 I wonder which action demanded more courage from Peter: In Jesus’ name commanding a man who had been lame
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Daily Readings: Mark 9 and Psalm 60 24 Immediately the boy’s father exclaimed, ‘I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief!’ The demonised boy’s father was desperate for his son to be healed. He firmly believed that Jesus could bring deliverance and healing to his son. And yet at the same time, he found doubts rising.
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Daily Readings: Mark 6 and Psalm 57 All the miracles we observed yesterday were performed in Galilee, so it’s no surprise that the townspeople of Nazareth had heard all about them. Word of a miracle-working rabbi would have travelled fast in the rural world of Galilee. For example, consider how the people of Gennesaret immediately
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