Devotional
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Daily Reading: Genesis 2 Like zooming in to a specific area on an electronic map, Genesis 2 zooms in on the moment first recorded in Genesis 1 when God created humanity. There we discover that, unlike any other living creature, Adam was not created from dust alone. In a deeply intimate moment, God also breathed
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Daily Reading: Genesis 1 As Spring sets in, we start a week of celebrating the glory of God in creation. “In the beginning God created …” Everything that is not God, was created by God’s will and God’s word. It is all God’s creative expression. The vast, as yet immeasurable expanse of the Cosmos. The
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Daily Reading: Luke 24:36-49 “Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.” (v.39) The resurrected body of Jesus is a flesh and bones body. Certainly, 1 Corinthians 15 explains clearly that it is a different form of flesh – a resurrected flesh – a glorified flesh.
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Daily Reading: Luke 7:36-50 Today’s reading gives us a glimpse of Jesus receiving love through physical touch, from a woman who seems to have had a rather questionable past. As her dramatic gesture unfolded, Jesus’ host muttered under his breath: ‘If this man were a prophet, he would know who is touching him and what
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Daily Reading: Mark 7:31-37 The exact kind of physical touch which Jesus used to heal the deaf and mute man was highly unusual, and it is very unlikely that we will ever be called upon to employ our spittle to administer the Lord’s healing touch. However, it does show us that for Jesus there is
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This week the “love language” we’re considering in our series, “Loving like Jesus”, is “physical touch”. Physical touch is the most direct way for human beings to communicate care, companionship, love, family, friendship and fellowship with one another. Of course, physical touch can also be used to inflict great harm. So, as is the case
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Daily Reading: John 21 Simon Peter had denied Jesus three times on the night of His arrest. It is hard to imagine him feeling anything other than shame and embarrassment in the presence of the risen Jesus. Talk about an “elephant in the room” as Jesus hosted the seven disciples for a breakfast on the
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Daily Reading: John 4:1-43 Jesus certainly knew how to give people the gift of quality time. In John 4 He gave quality time to His disciples as they walked the long, dusty roads to Sychar in Samaria. Then, while they went into the town to purchase food, Jesus positioned Himself at the local well, simply
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Daily Reading: Luke 10:38-42 “39 (Martha) had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he said.” Martha, who seems to have been the older sister (and was certainly the leader in the household) opened her home in Bethany to Jesus and His disciples. While Jesus was there, Martha and her
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Daily Reading: Mark 3:13-14 “13Jesus went up on a mountainside and called to Him those He wanted, and they came to Him.14 He appointed twelve that they might be with Him.“ What an unspeakable privilege the twelve apostles were given. Before Jesus appointed them to do anything in active ministry, He called them aside and appointed them
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