SATURDAY 3.4.23: A Growing issue: “to save life or to destroy it?”
Read Luke 5:27-6:11 Jesus’ challenge to the status quo made the religious leaders afraid and angry. Luke 5:36 was the first of 14 uses of...
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FRIDAY 3.3.23: Calling, healing, and forgiving
Read Luke 5:1-26 Luke (likely Paul’s friend, “the dearly loved physician” of Colossians 4:14) listed many of the ills Jesus healed....
THURSDAY 3.2.23: Early returns: some amazed, others furious
Read Luke 4:14-44 Jesus defined his mission with the healing, liberating action words of Isaiah 61. In Nazareth, he met rejection and...
WEDNESDAY 3.1.23: Trying to derail the Messiah
Read Luke 3:23-4:13 Unlike Matthew (cf. Matthew 1:1-17), Luke took Jesus’ list of ancestors all the way back to “Adam, the son of...
TUESDAY 2.28.23: Preparing the way for Jesus
Read Luke 3:1-22 Israel had gone through a long period with no clear prophetic voice. John the Baptist’s forceful preaching, calling...
MONDAY 2.27.23: Amazing moments in the Temple
Read Luke 2:41-52 Simeon and Anna, elderly servants of God, saw their hopes coming true in the baby Jesus. Simeon saw that Mary’s life...
SUNDAY 2.26.23: Lifting Up the Lowly
Read all of Luke 1 on this first Sunday of Lent. Luke starts out explaining why he chose to give his telling of the events surrounding the...
Angels—The Messengers of Peace
Scripture: Isaiah 9:2-3, and 6 (CEB) The people walking in darkness have seen a great light. On those living in a pitch-dark...
Courage to Love
Courage to Love By Rev. Terri Swan Scripture: Matthew 1:18-25 This is how the birth of Jesus Christ took place. When Mary his mother was...