Devotional
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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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Daily Readings: Luke 12 and Psalm 28 “1 … Jesus began to speak first to his disciples, saying: ‘Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy…” Jesus gave this warning to His disciples at the very height of His popularity, when “a crowd of many thousands had gathered, so that they were…
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Daily Readings: Luke 11 and Psalm 27 One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, ‘Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.’ 2 He said to them, ‘When you pray, say: ‘“Father…” Notice that the disciple asked Jesus, “Teach us to pray“,…
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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 9 and Psalm 25 23 Then he said to them all: ‘Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me. 24 For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will save it. Simply put, the gateway into the…
