This week read Luke 7&8 As we read through Luke each week there will be two devotions focusing on particular passages. Click here to read past devotions.  Focus Point: Listen (Luke 8:16-18) I have a habit of reading by sections, using the subtitles added by the translation. For instance the NIV titles this section, “A Lamp […]

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This week read Luke 7&8 As we read through Luke each week there will be two devotions focusing on particular passages. Click here to read past devotions.  Focus Point: At Simon’s House (Luke 7:36-50) They were marching behind the others with great dignity, accountable as they had always been for good order and common sense […]

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This week read Luke 5&6 As we read through Luke each week there will be two devotions focusing on particular passages. Click here to read past devotions.  I did change the order, Focus Point first, Tidbits at the bottom. Focus Point: Blessings and Woes (Luke 6:17-26) This begins a message that is very similar to […]

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This week read Luke 5&6 As we read through Luke each week there will be two devotions focusing on particular passages. Click here to read past devotions.  Interesting Tidbits: Drop Everything: It might seem the disciples drop everything to follow without knowing anything about Jesus (see Mark 1:16-20). Yet, Jesus heals Simon’s mother-in-law before calling him […]

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This week read Luke 3&4 As we read through Luke each week there will be two devotions focusing on particular passages. Click here to read past devotions.  Interesting Tidbits: Date — “Fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar” (3:1) would be about AD 26/27. This also a Jewish Jubilee year, which Jesus references in […]

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