“‘Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.’ When he had said this, he showed them his hands and feet. And while they still did not believe it because of joy and amazement, he asked […]
03/15/23 Daily Devotion – Jesus did not die by crucifixion!
“Jesus called out with a loud voice, ‘Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.’ When he had said this, he breathed his last.” (Luke 23:46, NIV84) I get a lot of comfort from Jesus’ final statement from the cross. He no longer says, “My God, My God…”, but once again the deeply relational “Father” […]
03/14/23 Daily Devotion – Darkness came over the whole land!
“It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour.” (Luke 23:44 NIV84) I have been putting off this devotion for hours. This verse makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up. It’s beyond the feeling I have when I watch a horror film … […]
03/13/23 Daily Devotion – ‘Today you will be with Me in paradise.’
“Then he said, ‘Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.’ Jesus answered him, ‘I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise.’” (Luke 23:42-43 NIV84) There could not be more comforting words to hear from your deathbed than these: “I tell you the truth, today you will be with […]
02/25/23 Daily Devotion – Given and shed for you!
“And he took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, ‘This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me.’ In the same way, after supper he took the cup, saying, ‘This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.’ ” […]
02/23/23 Daily Devotion – Stand Firm!
“By standing firm you will gain life.” (Luke 21:19, NIV84) It was nearing the end of the final week of Jesus’ life and He was talking with His disciples about end times. To be clear, Jesus knew the world would not always be the way we see it today. He knew things would get very, very bad, and then […]
02/18/23 Daily Devotion – The Resurrection!
“’Now then, at the resurrection whose wife will she be, since the seven were married to her?’” (Luke 20:33, NIV84) This was an awfully strange question for a Sadducee, who didn’t believe in the resurrection, to be asking Jesus. Unless, like the others, his goal was to try to trip Jesus up and catch Him […]
02/02/23 Daily Devotion – “What must I do…?”
“’All these I have kept since I was a boy,’ he said. When Jesus heard this, he said to him, ‘You still lack one thing. Sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.’” (Luke 18:21–22, NIV84) The original question — “What must I […]
10/31/2020 Daily Devotion – It’s not about the stuff we have!
“[T]hose who use the things of the world, as if not engrossed in them. For this world in its present form is passing away.” (1 Corinthians 7:31 NIV84) Jesus says in the Gospels, “What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but forfeits (loses) his own soul?” Quite a rhetorical question […]
