Daily Devotion

Scripture : Luke 6:20-26 Reflection Luke's "Sermon on the Plain" and Matthew's "Sermon on the Mount" (Matthew 5-7) closely correspond. Both start with a series of beatitudes. There are differences between the versions of Matthew and Luke, but one...

Scripture : LUKE 6:12-19 Reflection Here we see Jesus choosing His men. It is interesting to see why He chose them because it is for the same reason that He still wants, and needs this kind of people. (1 st ) Mark 3:14 tells us that He chose them...

Scripture: Luke 6:6-11 Reflection By this time, the opposition to Jesus was open. He was teaching in the synagogue on the Sabbath Day, and the scribes and Pharisees were there with the purpose of watching Him so that if He healed, they could charge...

Luke 6:1-5 -- This is the first of two incidents which show the opposition to Jesus quickly coming out into the open, and which make it clear that the immediate charge against Him was that He was a breaker of the Sabbath Law. He and His disciples...

Luke 5:36-39 -- There is in religious people a kind of passion for the old. Nothing moves more slowly than a church. The trouble with the Pharisees was that the whole religious outlook of Jesus was so startlingly new that they simply could not...

Luke 5:33-35 -- What amazed, and shocked the scribes, and the Pharisees was the normality of the followers of Jesus. The orthodox Jews had an idea-not yet altogether dead-that a person was not being religious unless they were being uncomfortable....