Category: Daily Devotion

  The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son, 3 and sent his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding feast, but they would not come. Matthew 22:2-3 – The imagined feast should have been one no one in that day would have wanted to pass up.…

  And Jesus entered the templeand drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. Matthew 21:12 – We are now within the final week of Jesus’ earthly life in our readings, what we call Holy Week or Passion Week.…

  And on receiving it they grumbled at the master of the house,12 saying, ‘These last worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.’ Matthew 20:11-12 – Let’s be honest with ourselves, we too would have our thoughts on the master…

  And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one’s wife for any cause?” 4 He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female. Matthew 19:3-4 – Once again the religious leaders of Jesus’ day come hoping to trap Jesus in His…

  If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. Matthew 18:15 – Many years ago I taught a youth lesson about reconciliation. The heart of it was that our enemy loves to drive wedges between us and other…

  And when they lifted up their eyes, they saw no one but Jesus only. Matthew 17:8 – A wonderful, yet terrifying, thing just unfolded in front of these three disciples. Invited by Jesus, the one they had been faithfully following for a good amount of time now, the four of them hike up the…

  And the Pharisees and Sadducees came, and to test him they asked him to show them a sign from heaven. Matthew 16:1 – To put this into perspective, imagine you have someone who just baked 500 cookies and you showing up, seeing all the cookies, and then asking them to make you a cookie…

  And he answered, “It is not right to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.” Matthew 15:26 – When read in context, this verse is a shocking one to hear come from Jesus’ mouth. A gentile woman came to Jesus on behalf of her daughter that was oppressed by a demon. She asked…

  But Jesus said, “They need not go away; you give them something to eat.” Matthew 14:16 – As you read this passage you see few familiar stories like the story of Jesus calming the seas after Peter walked on the water. The story that our verse is connected to is the one where Jesus feeds the…

  He put another parable before them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field, 25 but while his men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away. Matthew 13:24-25 – We have an enemy wanting to ruin what God is doing within…