Category: Daily Devotion

Isaiah 40: 28 – 31 NLT “Have you never heard?    Have you never understood?The Lord is the everlasting God,    the Creator of all the earth.He never grows weak or weary.    No one can measure the depths of his understanding.29 He gives power to the weak    and strength to the powerless.30 Even youths will become weak and tired,    and young men will fall in exhaustion.31 But...

Luke 7: 36 – 50 NLT “One of the Pharisees asked Jesus to have dinner with him, so Jesus went to his home and sat down to eat. 37 When a certain immoral woman from that city heard he was eating there, she brought a beautiful alabaster jar filled with expensive perfume. 38 Then she knelt behind him at...

Luke 7: 18 – 35 NLT “The disciples of John the Baptist told John about everything Jesus was doing. So John called for two of his disciples, 19 and he sent them to the Lord to ask him, “Are you the Messiah we’ve been expecting, or should we keep looking for someone else?” 20 John’s two disciples found Jesus...

Luke 7; 1 – 10 NLT “When Jesus had finished saying all this to the people, he returned to Capernaum. 2 At that time the highly valued slave of a Roman officer (centurion) was sick and near death. 3 When the officer heard about Jesus, he sent some respected Jewish elders to ask him to come and heal his slave. 4 So...

Luke 6: 37 – 49 NLT 37 “Do not judge others, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn others, or it will all come back against you. Forgive others, and you will be forgiven. 38 Give, and you will receive. Your gift will return to you in full—pressed down, shaken together to make room for more,...

These last verses in chapter 6 summarize much of what Jesus taught throughout his ministry on earth. They hit home in uncomfortable ways, so … here we go. Luke 6: 20 – 36 NLT 20 Then Jesus turned to his disciples and said, “God blesses you who are poor,    for the Kingdom of God is yours.21 God blesses...

Luke 6: 12 – 19 NLT “One day soon afterwards Jesus went up on a mountain to pray, and he prayed to God all night. 13 At daybreak he called together all of his disciples and chose twelve of them to be apostles. Here are their names: 14 Simon (whom he named Peter),Andrew (Peter’s brother),James,John,Philip,Bartholomew,15 Matthew,Thomas,James (son of Alphaeus),Simon...

Luke 6: 1 – 11 NLT “One Sabbath day as Jesus was walking through some grain fields, his disciples broke off heads of grain, rubbed off the husks in their hands, and ate the grain. 2 But some Pharisees said, “Why are you breaking the law by harvesting grain on the Sabbath?”3 Jesus replied, “Haven’t you read in the...

Philippians 4:4-9 4 Always be full of joy in the Lord. I say it again—rejoice!5 Let everyone see that you are considerate in all you do. Remember, the Lord is coming soon. 6 Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done.7 Then you will experience God’s...

Luke 5:33-39 33 One day some people said to Jesus, “John the Baptist’s disciples fast and pray regularly, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees. Why are your disciples always eating and drinking?” 34 Jesus responded, “Do wedding guests fast while celebrating with the groom? Of course not. 35 But someday the groom will be taken away from them,...

Luke 5:27-32 27 Later, as Jesus left the town, he saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at his tax collector’s booth. “Follow me and be my disciple,” Jesus said to him. 28 So Levi got up, left everything, and followed him. 29 Later, Levi held a banquet in his home with Jesus as the guest of honour. Many of Levi’s...

Luke 5:17-26 17 One day while Jesus was teaching, some Pharisees and teachers of religious law were sitting nearby. (It seemed that these men showed up from every village in all Galilee and Judea, as well as from Jerusalem.) And the Lord’s healing power was strongly with Jesus. 18 Some men came carrying a paralyzed man on...

Today is Victoria Day. The holiday began as a celebration to honour Queen Victoria, who ruled Great Britain and Ireland for most of the 19th century. Victoria Day has been observed since 1845 in the UK, and it was officially declared a Canadian federal holiday in 1901 — the year of Queen Victoria’s death. We tend to think of it as the...

Luke 5:1-11 NLT “One day as Jesus was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret] the people were crowding around him and listening to the word of God.2 He saw at the water’s edge two boats, left there by the fishermen, who were washing their nets.3 He got into one of the boats, the one belonging to Simon, and...

By Gretchen Potma “Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.” Luke 12:32 Here is a little verse, tucked in among parables and teachings of Jesus that is easily missed, but it is full of hope and encouragement for any day and especially these days when life seems to be even...

By Mark Potma Luke 4:31 – 44 “And he went down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee. And he was teaching them on the Sabbath,32 and they were astonished at his teaching, for his word possessed authority. 33 And in the synagogue there was a man who had the spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out with a loud voice, 34 “Ha! What have you...

By Gretchen Potma Luke 4: 14 – 30 “And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee, and a report about him went out through all the surrounding country.15 And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified by all. 16 And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. And as was his custom, he went to the synagogue...

By Gretchen Potma Luke 4: 1 – 13 NLT “And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing during those days. And when they were ended, he was hungry.”  As I was reading once again this familiar passage about...

Did you know Moses lived through a pandemic? He did! It was terrible. Moses and the Israelites were in lockdown in a place where there were no grocery stores. In fact, their bread and protein needed to be delivered to them 6 out of 7 days a week. There was a shortage of grain, figs,...