Category: Daily Devotion

  And all his acquaintances and the women who had followed him from Galilee stood at a distance watching these things. Luke 23:49 –  “Watching these things.” Seems like a simple way to describe the happenings of this verse. We might use that phrase to talk about watching kids play outside or some sports event,…

  And they said many other things against him, blaspheming him. Luke 22:65 –  Through my time volunteering at the local prison, I’ve heard inmates share with me how other people in the prison have pushed them to exhibit bad behavior. Maybe it was another inmate, or a guard having a bad day, but someone…

  Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away. Luke 21:33 –  The office that you have been struggling at for so long will pass away in time. The school pressures that have been laid on you for so many years will pass away. The never-ending worry about finances for…

  The scribes and the chief priests sought to lay hands on him at that very hour, for they perceived that he had told this parable against them, but they feared the people. Luke 20:19 –  I bet we can all feel for Jesus here in this chapter. Here Jesus was simply teaching and preaching…

  So those who were sent went away and found it just as he had told them. Luke 19:32 –  Of course they did, of course they found it exactly as Jesus said it would be. In the passage this was referring to the story of the time Jesus was to enter Jerusalem on a…

  And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart. Luke 18:1 –  A theme in this chapter is this persistency the Lord is calling us to have with our prayer life. Here we are taught to always pray and never lose heart. We have…

  Remember Lot’s wife. Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will keep it. Luke 17:32-33 –  Jesus takes His listeners back to a story in the beginning of scripture. Lot and his family were living in the land of Sodom and Gomorrah, vile cities so filled with…

  And he said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.” Luke 16:15 –  Imagine going to some magician’s show. Everyone in the crowd is applauding the act on the stage for the…

  But he was angry and refused to go in. His father came out and entreated him…Luke 15:28 –  This chapter holds one of the more well-known stories of the Gospels, the prodigal son. There a son took his portion of the inheritance, before his dad was even dead mind you, and wastes it on…

  One Sabbath, when he went to dine at the house of a ruler of the Pharisees, they were watching him carefully. Luke 14:1 –  Reading though any of the Gospels it doesn’t take long to see how the Pharisees and other religious leaders in Jesus’ day felt about Jesus. Many couldn’t stand Him. Many…