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Daily Devotion Archive
od’s Word for You – Luke 4:38 Peter’s mother-in-law
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 4:38 Jesus Heals Many (Matthew 8:14-18; Mark 1:29-34) 38 Jesus got up, left the synagogue, and went into Simon’s house. Simon’s mother-in-law was suffering from a high fever, and they asked Jesus to help her. We don’t learn the names of either Peter’s wife or his mother-in-law here or elsewhere […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 4:36-37 Jesus is God
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 4:36-37 36 They were all amazed and began to say to one another, “What is this word? With authority and power he commands unclean spirits, and they come out!” 37 News about him spread to every place in the surrounding area. The people of Capernaum came close to understanding who […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 4:35 the demon threw him down
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 4:35 35 Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be silent, and come out of him!” The demon threw him down in sight of all who were there and came out of him without harming him. Luke describes the reaction of the demon in medical terms. First, he says that the demon “threw […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 4:34 the words of a demon
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 4:34 34 “Ah! What do you want with us, Jesus the Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are: the Holy One of God!” The first word, “Ah!,” is ea (ἔα) in Greek. It’s rare in the Bible, and is used only here in the New […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 4:33 A spirit, an unclean demon
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 4:33 In this Gospel account there is an echo of yesterday’s terrible shooting in a Baptist Church in central Texas. We pray that God will bring comfort to the survivors with the true compassion of God our Savior. 33 In the synagogue there was a man who was possessed by […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 71:9-12 The monologue of insolence
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU PSALM 71:9-12 9 Do not cast me away when I am old; do not forsake me when my strength is gone. 10 For my enemies speak against me; those who wait to kill me conspire together. 11 They say, “God has forsaken him; pursue him and seize him, […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 4:31-32 the role of the Holy One of God.
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 4:31-32 Jesus Drives Out a Demon (Mark 1:21-28) 31 He went down to Capernaum, a town of Galilee, and taught them on the Sabbath. 32 They were amazed by his teaching, because his message had authority. There is more than one word for “and” in Greek (καί, δέ, and a […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 4:28-30 The brow of the hill
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 4:28-30 28 They were all filled with rage in the synagogue when they heard these things. 29 They got up and drove him out of the town. They led him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, in order to throw him off the cliff. […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 4:25-27 not sent to any of them
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 4:25-27 25 “But truly I tell you: There were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut for three years and six months, and there was a terrible famine all through the land. 26 But Elijah was not sent to any of them. Instead […]
Luther’s 95 Theses
▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ How the Reformation was Begun With Commentary on Luther’s 95 Theses ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Dr. Martin Luther Rev. Timothy Smith Citations of the Bible are from the EHV, HCSB,NIV, NASB and RSV as noted. © 2017 Timothy Smith For the congregation of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, New Ulm, Minnesota HOW […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 4:23-24 Physician heal thyself
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 4:23-24 In honor of this 500th Anniversary of the Lutheran Reformation, a complete set of devotions on Martin Luther’s 95 Theses, posted on this day, October 31st, 1517, is available. If you would like a free PDF copy of these devotions, email me or St. Paul’s church and just ask. […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 4:22 His words of grace
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 4:22 22 They all spoke well of him and were amazed by the words of grace that came from his mouth. And they kept saying, “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?” At first, the synagogue congregation began to speak well of Jesus. I must disagree with Pastor Wenzel, who calls this a […]
