Daily Devotion

LUKE 14:15-24 The Jews had a series of ever-recurring conventional pictures of what would happen when God broke into history, and when the golden days of the new age would arrive. One of these was the picture of the Messianic banquet. On that day...

LUKE 14:12-14 Here is a searching passage, because it demands that we should examine the motives behind our generosity . (1 st ) a person gave from a sense of duty . He dropped a penny in the plate, meekly raising his eyes, and glad the week's rent...

LUKE 14:7-11 Jesus is invited to a wedding feast and uses this time to teach a lesson He wants to teach. This parable was designed to teach them something other than seating arrangements at a feast. These were invited guests, and it was not up to...

LUKE 14:1-6 In the gospel story, there are seven incidents in which Jesus healed on the Sabbath day. Anyone would think that a record like that would have made a man loved by all; but it is a tragic fact that every miracle of healing Jesus did on...

LUKE 13:31-35 --- Because of the behind-the-scenes insight that it gives into the life of Jesus, this is one of the most interesting passages in Luke's gospel. (1 st ) it gives us, at first sight, the surprising information that not all the...

LUKE 13:22-30 When Jesus was asked this question, it would certainly be on the assumption that the kingdom of God was for the Jews, and that gentiles would be shut out. Jesus' answer must have come as a shock to him. Jesus declared that entry into...