Category: Daily Devotion

  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…

  In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God but you yourselves cast out. And people will come from east and west, and from north and south, and recline at table in the kingdom of…

  Do you think that I have come to give peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division. Luke 12:51 –  How do we reconcile this verse with verses like we see of the announcement of Jesus’ birth where Jesus is the Prince of Peace? Let’s understand that peace is still the outcome…

But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, and neglect justice and the love of God. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others. ‭‭Luke‬ ‭11‬:‭42‬ ‭- Jesus’ statement here to the Pharisees invites us to ask a similar question of our life. Are there things of…

  Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. Luke 10:13 – Tyre and Sidon were a couple cities in Jesus’ day that were known as hubs for sinfulness.…

  And behold, a spirit seizes him, and he suddenly cries out. It convulses him so that he foams at the mouth, and shatters him, and will hardly leave him. Luke 9:39 – It “shatters him.” While there are so many powerful verses we could spend time writing on from this chapter, the one above…

 And all were weeping and mourning for her, but he said, “Do not weep, for she is not dead but sleeping.” And they laughed at him, knowing that she was dead. But taking her by the hand he called, saying, “Child, arise.” And her spirit returned, and she got up at once. And he directed…