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Daily Readings: Luke 22 and Psalm 38 31 ‘Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift all of you as wheat. 32 But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.’ Satan came to Jesus in the wilderness (all the way back in Luke 4), seeking…
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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 20 and Psalm 36 45 While all the people were listening, Jesus said to his disciples, 46 ‘Beware of the teachers of the law. They like to walk around in flowing robes and love to be greeted with respect in the market-places and have the most important seats in the synagogues and the places of…
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Daily Readings: Luke 19 and Psalm 35 37 When He came near the place where the road goes down the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of disciples began joyfully to praise God in loud voices for all the miracles they had seen … The disciples did not comprehend it at the time, but Jesus was…
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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 17 and Psalm 33 3 So watch yourselves. If your brother or sister sins against you, rebuke them; and if they repent, forgive them. 4 Even if they sin against you seven times in a day and seven times come back to you saying “I repent,” you must forgive them.’ “You must forgive them.” When…
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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 15 and Psalm 31 8 ‘Or suppose a woman has ten silver coins and loses one. Doesn’t she light a lamp, sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it? 9 And when she finds it, she calls her friends and neighbours together and says, “Rejoice with me; I have found my lost coin.” 10 In…
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Daily Readings: Luke 14 and Psalm 30 26 ‘If anyone comes to Me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters – yes, even their own life – such a person cannot be My disciple. 27 And whoever does not carry their cross and follow Me cannot be my disciple. Jesus claims His disciples’ allegiance…
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Daily Reading: Luke 13 and Psalm 29 20 Again he asked, ‘What shall I compare the kingdom of God to? 21 It is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into about thirty kilograms of flour until it worked all through the dough.’ When yeast is added to water and flour to create dough, it consumes the sugars…
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