Category: Daily Devotional

Then came the day of Unleavened Bread on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed. Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, “Go and make preparations for us to eat the Passover…They left and found things just as Jesus had told them. So they prepared the Passover. Luke 22:7-38 This day, Thursday, the 5th day, of Jesus’ last week…

When Jesus had said these things, he departed and hid himself from them. 37 Though he had done so many signs before them, they still did not believe in him… John 12:36-43 After Jesus told the crowd in the Temple about His death, on a cross, He leaves the Temple area and hides from the public. John…

Now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this hour’? But for this purpose I have come to this hour…While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light.” John 12:27:36 After Jesus spoke with the Greeks who had asked to “see Jesus,” He says that His “soul…

Now…at the feast were some Greeks…came to Philip…and asked him, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.” John 12:20-26 After Jesus’ “Triumphal Entry,” He goes into the Temple. He cleanses the Temple as He had done the previous years of His earthly ministry. Matthew tells of Jesus healing the lame and blind there in the Temple. Here, in…

“Fear not, daughter of Zion; behold, your King is coming, sitting on a donkey’s colt!” John 12:12-19 We come, now, to the beginning of the end of Jesus of Nazareth’s earthly ministry. We commemorate the Sunday before Easter as the day Jesus came into Jerusalem, riding on a donkey, in fulfillment of the prophecy found…

The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds; there is none who does good. Psalm 14 On this April Fool’s day, let Christians remember that there are people in this world who think, act and, say, “There is no god.” This psalm of David goes on to tell us…

He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt… Luke 18:9-14 Among the audience for this parable were those who “trusted in themselves,” those who believed they were “righteous” and, these people treated others with “contempt.” Jesus uses a Pharisee, possibly the most righteous man a Jew…

Being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, He [Jesus] answered them, “The kingdom of God is not coming in ways that can be observed…And He said to the disciples, “The days are coming when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it… Luke…

ten lepers…lifted up their voices, saying, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us…He said to him (the one leper), “Rise and go your way; your faith has made you well.” Luke 17:11-19 In the ancient middle east, once someone had been diagnosed with leprosy, that person suffered the worst of all possible quarantines. Quarantine for a leper, for leprosy…

Will any one of you who has a servant plowing or keeping sheep say to him when he has come in from the field, “Come at once and recline at table”…Does he (the master) thank the servant because he did what was commanded?… Luke 17:7-10 Christians, this is teaching that we need for today’s world! In…