Devotion

QT 03/03/2023 Sunday Luke 8 http://www.esvbible.org/luke8 Luke acknowledges the contributions and significance of women in Luke-Acts.  Women were featured prominently right from the beginning:- Women financially supported the Twelve and Jesus (Luke 8:3); We remember Elizabeth's welcoming of her role in bringing

QT 01/03/2024 Friday Daniel 1 READ & LISTEN here https://www.esv.org/Daniel+1/ MEDITATION: The book describes Daniel serving in foreign palaces/courts under tremendous pressures of all sorts over a long period spanning both Babylonian and Persian empires! (605-536 B.C.) He would have won any

QT 29/02/2024 Thursday Luke 7 http://www.esvbible.org/luke7 Luke now contrasts the positive (and even surprising) responses of people in Luke 7 with that of Luke 6. No such great faith as the centurion's had been found "even in Israel" (Luke 7:9). The centurion even

QT 28/02/2024 Wednesday Luke 6 http://www.esvbible.org/luke6 Sabbath was a day for rest and restoration. A day for doing what we were created to do. A shrivelled hand was restored (Luke 6:6-10), a hunger was satisfied (Luke 6:1-2), a good was done to

QT 27/02/2024 Tuesday Luke 5 http://www.esvbible.org/luke5 Jesus seems to be intentional in getting Peter involved in His lakeside ministry (Luke 5:1-3). Peter did not object to Jesus' use of his boat as temporary pulpit. REFLECTION (1): Are you sensitive to the times when

QT 26/02/2024 Monday Luke 4 http://www.esvbible.org/luke4 Jesus "returned from the Jordan" (Luke 4:1), a journey already taken by many before Him, e.g., Jacob (Gen 32,33) & Joshua (Joshua 4) and Ruth (Ruth 1). Luke 4:1-13 highlights the tension between two forces: