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Daily Devotion Archive
God’s Word for You – Luke 13:22 toward the cross
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 13:22 22 Jesus went teaching city by city and village by village as he went on his journey to Jerusalem. The region through which Jesus went teaching began just south of the southern tip of the Sea of Galilee. It was a narrow strip of territory on the east side […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 13:20-21 yeast
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 13:20-21 20 Again he said, “What shall I compare the kingdom of God with? 21 It is like the yeast a woman took and mixed in with three measures of flour until worked all through the dough.” In former years, yeast was one of the Bible’s many references that never […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 13:18-19 The Mustard Seed
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 13:18-19 18 Then he said, “What is the kingdom of God like? What shall I compare it with? 19 It is like a mustard seed which a man took and planted in his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air sheltered in its branches.” […]
God’s Word for You – Jonah 1:17 pt. 1 Jonah and the whale
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU JONAH 1:17 Part 1 17 But the LORD provided a huge whale to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the whale three days and three nights. Our Savior uses this passage as a sign of his own death and resurrection (Matthew 12:40). We do well to pause and […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 13:14-17 The endless maze of the law
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 13:14-17 14 The synagogue ruler was indignant that Jesus had healed on the Sabbath. He said to the crowd, “There are six days to do work. Come to be healed on those days and not on the Sabbath day.” 15 The Lord answered him, “You hypocrites! Doesn’t each of you […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 13:14-17 The endless maze of the law
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 13:14-17 14 The synagogue ruler was indignant that Jesus had healed on the Sabbath. He said to the crowd, “There are six days to do work. Come to be healed on those days and not on the Sabbath day.” 15 The Lord answered him, “You hypocrites! Doesn’t each of you […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 13:10-13 She stood straight up
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 13:10-13 Jesus Heals a Crippled Woman 10 Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues on a Sabbath day. 11 There was a woman there who had an evil spirit that had caused an illness in her for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten up. 12 […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 13:6-9 Grace, Faith and a Fig Tree
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 13:6-9 The Parable of the Fig Tree What is grace? As we consider Jesus’ Parable of the Fig Tree, we are led from the doctrine of repentance in the previous statements to an understanding of the grace of God who gives us time to come to faith in Christ and […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 13:4-5 The tower of Siloam
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 13:4-5 Seventeen years ago I used this passage on the day after 9/11 in chapel with the children of our elementary school. The shock of that day and the frightening uncertainty of that time still lingers for me in Jesus’ words about the tower that fell. Let’s treat them in […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 13:1-3 The Galileans
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 13:1-3 Repent 13 There were some present at that time who told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices. Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea for ten years, and his term was filled with many outrages like this one. While Jesus was saying the things […]
God’s Word for You – Jonah 1:16 They feared a great fear
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU JONAH 1:16 16 Then the men feared the LORD more and more. They offered a sacrifice to the LORD and made vows to him. The poet-musician Asaph graced the reigns of both David and Solomon. He lived more than a hundred years before Jonah, but he captured the spirit of this […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 12:57-59 Is your debt settled
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 12:57-59 57 “Why don’t you judge for yourselves what is right? 58 When you go with your adversary to the magistrate, make every effort to settle with him along the way, or he may he drag you to the judge, and the judge will hand you over to the officer, […]
