Full Reading: Luke 24:1-49 Selective Reading: Luke 24:13-35 Christ has risen! (Luke 24:6) He has risen indeed! (Luke 24:34) When the women arrived at the empty tomb on that Resurrection Sunday, the angel confronted them, “Why do you seek the living among the dead? He is not here, but has risen. Remember how he told […]

Saturday, April 8, 2023 Full Reading: Luke 23:50-56 All four of the Gospel narratives tell the story of how Joseph of Arimathea was the one who buried Jesus. He was a member of the Jewish council which had falsely accused Jesus of blasphemy and sentenced Him to death. Yet, Joseph had not consented. He was […]

Full Reading: Luke 22:68-23:49 Selective Reading: Luke 23:32-43 When I was in high school, I wrote a short narrative, imagining the backstory of the thief who was crucified next to Jesus. I called it “A Sinner’s Prayer.” It was a fictionalized account of what led this thief to a saving knowledge of Jesus. Had he […]

Full Reading: Luke 22:7-65 Selective Reading Luke 22:35-38 There was a lot going on the night that Jesus was betrayed. He instituted the Lord’s Supper, He foretold Peter’s denial, He prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane, and He was betrayed by Judas with a kiss. Yet, there is a peculiar statement tucked away in Jesus’ […]

Full Reading: Luke 22:1-6 Luke does not provide us with many details as to Judas’s motivation to betray Jesus, but it is safe to assume that he was tempted by greed. However, Luke’s Gospel does reveal that Satan entered Judas to help facilitate this dastardly act. Interestly, Satan had requested authority over the other disciples […]

Full Reading: Luke 20:1-21:38 Selective Reading: Luke 20:9-18 I hope you’ve carved out enough time for today’s Scripture reading. There is a lot. But even if you don’t read everything, I hope that you will at least take the time to focus on the parable of the wicked tenants. Many of Jesus’ parables are complex, […]

Monday, April 3, 2023 Full Reading: Luke 19:45-48 The Monday following the Triumphal Entry was quite the contrast of events from the day before. Luke doesn’t make a clear distinction between the days, but we know from Mark’s Gospel that by the time Jesus had arrived at the temple on Sunday, it was already late […]

Read: Mark 8:31-38; 9:30-32; 10:32-34 Imagine how the disciples must have felt on the morning after Jesus was buried. Their minds would have been racing to make sense of the surprising events of the previous 24 hours. They had gone from sleeping in the garden, to scattering in the night, and ended up hiding indoors, […]