Daily Devotion

LUKE 12:49-53 --- To those who were learning to regard Jesus as the Messiah, the anointed one of God, these words would come as a bleak shock. They regarded the Messiah as conqueror, king, and the Messianic age as golden time. In Jewish thought...

LUKE 12:35-48 --- This passage has two views. In its narrower view, it refers to the Second Coming of Jesus; in its wider view, it refers to the time when God's call enters a person's life to meet Him. There is praise for the servant who is ready...

LUKE 12:13-34 --- It was not uncommon for people in Israel to take their unsettled disputes to respected Rabbis, but Jesus refused to get mixed up in anyone's disputes about money. But out of that request there came to Jesus an opportunity to lay...

LUKE 12:1-12 --- When we read this chapter, we are reminded again of the Jewish definition of preaching---Charaz, which means stringing pearls. This is a collection of pearls strung together without the close connection which modern preaching...

LUKE 11:45-54 --- Two charges are leveled against the scribes. (1 st ) they were the experts in the law; they laid upon people the thousand-and-one burdens of the ceremonial law, but they did not keep them themselves because they were experts in...

LUKE 24:50-53 --- The ascension must always remain a mystery because it attempts to put into words what is beyond words and to describe what is beyond description . But that something should happen, was essential. It was unthinkable that the...