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Daily Devotion Archive
God’s Word for You – Luke 11:3 The Fourth Petition
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 11:3 THE LORD’S PRAYER: THE FOURTH PETITION 3 Give us each day our daily bread. “Daily” (epiousios, ἐπιούσιος) is a word unknown in earlier, classical Greek. Writing in the third century, the scholar Origen said that this word “is found with no Grecian, nor with the learned, nor in the […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 11:2d Variant: The Third Petition
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 11:2d (Third Petition Variant) THE LORD’S PRAYER: THE THIRD PETITION Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. This petition of the Lord’s Prayer was the one Jesus returned to in the Garden of Gethsemane during his Passion. This was the part of his work that the […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 11:2d Variant: The Third Petition
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 11:2d (Third Petition Variant) THE LORD’S PRAYER: THE THIRD PETITION Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. This petition of the Lord’s Prayer was the one Jesus returned to in the Garden of Gethsemane during his Passion. This was the part of his work that the […]
God’s Word for You – Jonah 1:4 The storm
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU JONAH 1:4 4 But the LORD threw a mighty wind upon the sea, and there was such a violent storm on the water so that the ship threatened to break up. These are simple words, but the event was terrifying. Anyone who has ever been through some frightening, dangerous and life-changing […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 11:2c The Second Petition
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 11:2c Your kingdom come. What is the kingdom of God? It isn’t a location, nor is it a single church or a single denomination. It isn’t found within a certain race or language. Jesus teaches us that the kingdom of God is the way in which God gathers his church. […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 11:2b The First Petition
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 11:2b let your name be made holy. The Greek word onoma (ὄνομα) means more than just “name.” Like its Hebrew counterpart shem (שֵׁם), it stands in this context for anything that designates God: all his names, all his titles, and also “all that God has been pleased to make known […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 11:1-2a The Address
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 11:1-2a The Lord’s Prayer (Matthew 6:9-13) 11 Another time, 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 also taught his disciples.” Luke doesn’t tell us when this event took place. Matthew records the […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 10:42b the one thing needful
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 10:42b In fact, Mary has chosen that better portion, which will not be taken away from her.” A good portion of devotion to Jesus would be serving him. Service to others is a way of looking at the whole second table of the Law: loving your neighbor as yourself. There […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 10:38-42a Martha, Martha
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 10:38-42a Mary and Martha 38 As they made their journey, Jesus entered a village. A woman named Martha welcomed him into her home. 39 She had a sister named Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet and was listening to his word. The village was Bethany on the hill east […]
God’s Word for You – Jonah 1:3 to run away from the LORD
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU JONAH 1:3 Permit me to format this verse so that we see the poetry and the parallel thoughts: 3 But Jonah got up to run away from the LORD. He went down to Joppa, where he found a ship […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 10:35-37 The Good Samaritan (part 2)
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 10:35-37 35 The next day before he left he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper. He said, ‘Look after him. When I return, I will repay you for whatever extra you spend.’ 36 Which of these three do you think acted like a neighbor to the […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 10:30-34 The Good Samaritan (part 1)
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 10:30-34 We need to take this parable in a whole delicious bite, not in little pieces. Yet the story has certain elements that some readers will need to have explained, and which all of us will profit from hearing once again. For this reason, we will take the parable in […]
