April 19 | Luke 24:30-32 “Then it happened when He reclined at the table with them. He took the bread, blessed it, and after breaking it, He noticed was giving it to them, and their eyes were opened and they recognized Him, but He vanished from them. Then they said…
April 17 | Luke 24:6-7 “He is not here, but He has been raised. Remember as He spoke to you when you were still in Galilee, saying that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and on the third day He…
March 31 | Luke 9:23 “Then He said to everyone, ‘If anyone wants to come after Me, He must deny himself and take up His cross and follow Me.” (Luke 9:23) We often don’t realize the cost of discipleship, of the following and learning from Jesus. Nobody likes , suffering,…
February 21 | Luke 22:10-11 “And he said to them, “Behold, when you enter into the city you will meet a man carrying a jar of water, follow him into the house in which he enters. Then say to the master of the house, “The Teacher says, ‘Where is the…
Although I’ve talked about when Jesus progressively heals someone before, I wanted to talk about immediate healing and compare it with progressive healing in the Gospels. In my last post, I talked about why Jesus liked to heal on the Sabbath. In this post, I want to take another look…
There are seven fascinating moments in the Gospels where Jesus was like a revolutionary, healing on the Sabbath. This is my best attempt at understanding why He liked doing it. In my last post, I discussed how healing and casting out demons are used side-by-side by the New Testament authors.…
Many modern readers of the Bible do not understand how Jesus healed people with Demons. The word for healing does not seem to fit the same idea of casting demons out of people. I will to take a closer look at this phenomenon in the Gospels and Acts. In my…
December 23 | Luke 2:30-32 “For my eyes have seen Your salvation, which You prepared in the presence of all the people, a Light for revelation to the Gentiles and the glory of the people, Israel.”” (Luke 2:30–32) So many generations of Jews from the time of Isaiah’s prophecy about…
December 22 | Luke 2:13-14 “Then suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth, peace with people with whom He is pleased.” (Luke 2:13–14) It’s a cool night outside Bethlehem. You just put…
December 20 | Luke 2:6-7 “Then it happened while they were there that the days were completed for her to give birth, and she gave birth to a son, her firstborn, and she wrapped Him and laid Him in a manger because there was no place for them in the…
