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Daily Devotion Archive
God’s Word for You – Luke 8:12-15 The four soils
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 8:12-15 The Parable of the Sower is about how the gospel works, but in particular, how it’s received by each of us. That’s the key truth here. Jesus presents four kinds of soil. Each of the four soils, the Path, the Rocky, the Thorny, and the Good, represent human hearts, […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 8:4-11 The sower sows
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 8:4-11 The Parable of the Sower 4 When a large crowd was gathering and people were coming to Jesus from town after town, he told this parable: What is a parable (παραβολή)? It is a comparison. The word means to throw something alongside another. In Hebrew, the word for teach […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 8:1-3 doing whatever was necessary
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 8:1-3 In this chapter, Luke presents four of the Lord’s greatest miracles and one of his most important parables. In the middle of all this comes an attempt from the Lord’s mother to interfere with his ministry. 8 After this, Jesus traveled from place to place, going through cities and […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 7:48-50
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 7:48-50 48 Then Jesus said to her, “Your sins are forgiven.” 49 Then the other guests began to say to one another, “Who is this who even forgives sins?” 50 Jesus said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you; go in peace.” The word for “sins” in these verses […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 7:44-47 Forgiven
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 7:44-47 44 Then he turned toward the woman and said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I came into your house. For my feet you gave me no water, but she showered my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair. 45 To me you gave no […]
God’s Word for You – Obadiah 6 The ruin of hell
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU OBADIAH 6 6 But how Esauª will be plundered, his hidden treasures pillaged! ———————— ª Vs. 6 Esau. Edom and Esau were the same person (Genesis 25:29-30), and the land of Edom is sometimes referred to as Esau in the Bible. Cp. Jeremiah 49:8,10. In verse 5, God addressed the people […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 7:40-43 Denariuses of sin forgiven
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 7:40-43 40 Jesus answered him, “Simon, I have something to tell you.” He said, “Tell me, teacher.” Jesus is going to show just how much Simon the Pharisee had misunderstood, and not everything will be laid out for everyone to hear. Jesus will use a parable for Simon which will […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 7:39 The Pharisee’s trap
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 7:39 39 When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would know who this is, and what kind of woman she is who is touching him, for she is a sinner.” Simon the Pharisee thought he had figured […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 7:36-38 A simple act of worship
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 7:36-38 Jesus Is Anointed by a Sinful Woman 36 Now a certain one of the Pharisees invited Jesus to eat dinner with him. So Jesus went to the Pharisee’s house and reclined at the table. We don’t know when this happened, but Luke brings up this story just after Jesus […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 7:33-35 John has come and Jesus has come
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 7:33-35 33 For John the Baptist has come, neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’ 34 The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘See, he’s a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ 35 But […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 7:31-32 Flutes and dirges – will you play?
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 7:31-32 The Parable of the Calling Children 31 “To what, then, shall I compare the people of this generation? What are they like? 32 They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling to each other: ‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang […]
God’s Word for You – Obadiah 5 If robbers came at night…
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU OBADIAH 5 5 “If thieves came, if robbers came at night—oh, how you will be destroyed!—wouldn’t they steal only what they wanted? When the grape pickers come to you don’t they leave some for gleaning? I won’t bother to explain how challenging this verse is to translate. A quick comparison with […]
