Category: Daily Devotional

…Jesus took with Him, Peter, James and, John…up a high mountain…There He was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and His clothes became as white as the light. Matthew 17:1-13 A few days after Jesus asked His disciples who they thought He was, Jesus takes an inner circle of His Disciples, Peter,…

[Jesus said] Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by my Father in heaven…Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns. Matthew 16:13-28 In verse 13 of today’s…

Now great crowds accompanied Him [Jesus], and He turned and said to them…any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be My disciple. Luke 14:25-33 We may have a desire for evangelism out of concern for our loved ones and friends who do not know Christ. It is good that we…

He [Jesus] said also to the man (Pharisee) who had invited Him, “When you give a dinner or a banquet…invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind…and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. Luke 14:12-24 Jesus is still at the dinner to which the Pharisee had invited Him and Jesus tells another parable to…

…when you are invited (to a dinner), go and sit in the lowest place, so that, when your host comes, he may say to you, “Friend, move up higher.” Luke 14:7-11 Jesus was invited by “a ruler of the Pharisees” to a dinner on the Sabbath. However, Jesus was more of a “suspect” among this crowd of…

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! Luke 13:31-35 Wherever Jesus was, in Judea, He was near Jerusalem when “some Pharisees” warned Jesus that Herod was looking to kill Him. Scripture is unclear about these Pharisees, whether they believed Jesus or not, but, Jesus’ response to…

He [Jesus] went on His way…toward Jerusalem…someone said…Lord, will those who are saved be few? Luke 13:22-30 Jesus is on His last journey to Jerusalem. As He travels, through Judea now, to villages and towns along the way, He is asked by someone, from a large crowd following Him, about “those who are saved.” In His…

He [Jesus] said therefore, “What is the kingdom of God like…It is like a grain of mustard seed…It is like leaven… Luke 13:18-20 Though Scripture does not tell us someone asked Jesus what was Heaven like, Jesus gives, here, two metaphors for what Heaven is like, a mustard seed and leaven (yeast). The mustard seed is quite…

…there was a woman who had a disabling spirit for eighteen years…He [Jesus] laid His hands on her, and immediately she was made straight, and she glorified God. Luke 13:10-17 The beginning of this healing by Jesus tells us He was at worship, actually teaching, of God the Father somewhere other than the Temple in Jerusalem. Synagogues…

And He told this parable: “A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it and found none. Luke 13:6-9 This brief parable is connected to the verses we looked at yesterday. Jesus’ teaching, in response to questions regarding the tragedies of the slaughter of worshipers by Pilate and the…