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Daily Devotions

  • Tuesday, August 30: Scripture – Luke 14:27


    Tuesday, August 30: Scripture – Luke 14:27 27 Whoever does not carry the cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.   Prayer Focus: This verse at first seems to be unrelated, but perhaps is an appropriate summary of what Jesus is trying to say about our relation to our family in the text we…

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  • Monday, August 29: Scripture – Luke 14:25-26


    Monday, August 29: Scripture – Luke 14:25-26 25 Now large crowds were traveling with him, and he turned and said to them, 26 “Whoever comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and even life itself, cannot be my disciple. Prayer Focus: We continue in Luke…

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  • Sunday, August 28: Scripture – Luke 14:13-14


    Sunday, August 28: Scripture – Luke 14:13-14 13 But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind. 14 And you will be blessed because they cannot repay you, for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.” Prayer Focus: When you give a banquet, invite the…

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  • Saturday, August 27: Scripture – Luke 14:12


    Saturday, August 27: Scripture – Luke 14:12 12 He said also to the one who had invited him, “When you give a luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers and sisters or your relatives or rich neighbors, in case they may invite you in return, and you would be repaid.…

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  • Friday, August 26: Scripture – Luke 14:10-11


    Friday, August 26: Scripture – Luke 14:10-11 10 But when you are invited, go and sit down at the lowest place, so that when your host comes, he may say to you, ‘Friend, move up higher’; then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at the table with you. 11 For…

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  • Thursday, August 25: Scripture – Luke 14:8-9


    Thursday, August 25: Scripture – Luke 14:8-9 8 “When you are invited by someone to a wedding banquet, do not sit down at the place of honor, in case someone more distinguished than you has been invited by your host, 9 and the host who invited both of you may come and say to you,…

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  • Wednesday, August 24: Scripture – Luke 14:7


    Wednesday, August 24: Scripture – Luke 14:7 7 When he noticed how the guests chose the places of honor, he told them a parable. Prayer Focus: Jesus arrives at the home of the Pharisee and notices how the guests choose their seats for dinner. How do you choose where to sit at a church dinner?…

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  • Tuesday, August 23: Scripture – Luke 14:5-6


    Tuesday, August 23: Scripture – Luke 14:5-6 5 Then he said to them, “If one of you has a child or an ox that has fallen into a well, will you not immediately pull it out on a Sabbath day?” 6 And they could not reply to this.  Prayer Focus: I have had people tell…

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  • Monday, August 22: Scripture – Luke 14:1-4


    Monday, August 22: Scripture – Luke 14:1-4 1 On one occasion when Jesus was going to the house of a leader of the Pharisees to eat a meal on the Sabbath, they were watching him closely. 2 Just then, in front of him, there was a man who had edema. 3 And Jesus asked the…

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  • Sunday, August 21: Scripture – Mark 6:42-44


    Sunday, August 21: Scripture – Mark 6:42-44 42 And all ate and were filled, 43 and they took up twelve baskets full of broken pieces and of the fish. 44 Those who had eaten the loaves numbered five thousand men. Prayer Focus: Everyone ate and was filled. They did not just get a bite of…

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