Daily Devotion
Laws of the Christian Life
LUKE 17:1-10 I n these verses are four definite and disconnected sections. (1 st ) Verses 1 and 2 condemn the man who teaches others to sin. The Revised Standard Version talks in these verses about temptations to sin. The Greek word (skandalon) is...
Punishment of the Man Who Never Noticed
LUKE 16:19-31 This is a parable constructed with such masterly skill that not one phrase is wasted. Let's start by looking at the two characters in it. (1 st ) is the rich man, usually called Dives, which is the Latin for "rich". Every phrase adds...
The Law that Does not Change
LUKE 16:14-18 This passage falls into three sections. (1 st ) it begins with a rebuke to the Pharisees. It says that they derided Jesus. The word literally means that they turned up their noses at him. The Jews tended to connect earthly prosperity...
Bad Man's Good Example Part 2
LUKE 16:1-13 (continued) (2 nd ) in verse 9, the lesson is that material possessions should be used to cement friendships wherein the real and permanent value of life lies. That could be done in two ways: (a) it could be done in a way to affect...
A Bad Man's Good Example
LUKE 16:1-13 This is a difficult parable to interpret. It is a story about as choice a group of rascals as one could find anywhere. The steward was a rascal. He was a slave, but he was in charge of running his master's estate. In Israel, there were...
Story of the Loving Father
LUKE 15:11-32 NOT WITHOUT REASON, THIS HAS BEEN CALLED THE GREATEST SHORT STORY IN THE WORLD. UNDER JEWISH LAW, A FATHER WAS NOT FREE TO LEAVE HIS PROPERTY AS HE LIKED. THE ELDER SON GETS TWO-THIRDS, AND THE YOUNGER ONE-THIRD, (DEUTERONOMY 21:17.)...