Daily Devotion

LUKE 18:35-43 THE ONE THING THAT STANDS OUT IN THIS STORY IS THE DESPERATE PERSISTENCE OF THE BLIND MAN. JESUS WAS ON HIS WAY TO JERUSALEM TO THE PASSOVER. AT SUCH A TIME PILGRIMS TRAVELED IN BANDS TOGETHER. JESUS WAS TEACHING AND THE REST OF THE...

LUKE 18:15-17. IT WAS THE CUSTOM FOR MOTHERS TO BRING THEIR CHILDREN TO SOME DISTINGUISHED RABBI ON THEIR FIRST BIRTHDAY THAT HE MIGHT BLESS THEM. THAT IS WHAT THE MOTHERS WANTED FROM JESUS FOR THEIR CHILDREN. WE ARE NOT TO THINK THAT THE DISCIPLES...

LUKE 18:9-14 THE DEVOUT OBSERVED THREE PRAYER TIMES DAILY---9 A.M., 12 MIDDAY AND 3 P.M. PRAYER WAS HELD TO BE SPECIALLY EFFICACIOUS IF IT WAS OFFERED IN THE TEMPLE. SO, AT THESE HOURS MANY WENT TO THE TEMPLE COURTS TO PRAY. JESUS TOLD OF TWO MEN...

LUKE 18:1-8 THIS PARABLE TELLS OF THE KIND OF THING WHICH COULD AND OFTEN DID HAPPEN. THERE ARE TWO CHARACTERS IN IT. (1 ST ) THE JUDGE WAS CLEARLY NOT A JEWISH JUDGE. All ORDINARY JEWISH DISPUTES WERE TAKEN BEFORE THE ELDERS, AND NOT INTO THE...

LUKE 17:20-37 IN VERSES 20, AND 21 JESUS ANSWERED THE QUESTION OF THE PHARISEES AS TO WHEN THE KINGDOM OF GOD WOULD COME. HE SAID THAT IT WOULD NOT COME WITH SIGNS THAT YOU WATCH FOR. THE WORD HE USED IS THE WORD FOR A DOCTOR WATCHING A PATIENT FOR...

LUKE 17:11-19 JESUS WAS ON THE BORDER BETWEEN GALILEE, AND SAMARIA, AND WAS MET BY A BAND OF TEN LEPERS. WE KNOW THAT THE JEWS HAD NO DEALINGS WITH THE SAMARITANS; YET, IN THIS BAND THERE WAS AT LEAST ONE SAMARITAN. HERE IS AN EXAMPLE OF A GREAT...