This week read Luke 20-21 As we read through Luke each week there will be two devotions focusing on particular passages. Click here to read past devotions.   Focus Point: “Fair-you-see”  (Luke 19:39-40) This is from last week’s chapter, but I didn’t want to parade into the triumphal entry before now… Jesus rides in on a colt […]

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This week read Luke 18 & 19 As we read through Luke each week there will be two devotions focusing on particular passages. Click here to read past devotions.   Focus Point: Reading Luke, Not Matthew  (Luke 19:11-27) We often read this story in correlation with Matthew’s story of the talents (25:14-30), but there are key differences. […]

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This week read Luke 18 & 19 As we read through Luke each week there will be two devotions focusing on particular passages. Click here to read past devotions.   Focus Point: Holier than…  (Luke 18:9-14) “To some who were confident in their own righteousness… (v9)” The word for confident also occurs in Luke 11:22. In that […]

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This week read Luke 16&17 As we read through Luke each week there will be two devotions focusing on particular passages. Click here to read past devotions.   Focus Point: Jewelry (Luke 17:1-2) There were multiple types of millstones. Smaller stones for each household, large stones used by the whole community.  With some, the stones were perpendicular […]

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This week read Luke 16&17 As we read through Luke each week there will be two devotions focusing on particular passages. Click here to read past devotions.   Focus Point: How does this Fit? (Luke 16:14-18) Chapter 16 is bookended by a pair of parables about money. So these verses feel out of place. Especially verse 18. […]

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