by Will | Apr 4, 2018 | Scripture Meditations
Luke 19:27 (NIV) “But those enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them–bring them here and kill them in front of me.’” Some Christians find these words of Jesus uncharacteristically harsh. After all, if you accept the premise that the master...
by Will | Apr 4, 2018 | Scripture Meditations
Luke 19:20-26 (NIV) “Then another servant came and said, ‘Sir, here is your mina; I have kept it laid away in a piece of cloth. I was afraid of you, because you are a hard man. You take out what you did not put in and reap what you did not sow.’ “His...
by Will | Apr 3, 2018 | Scripture Meditations
Luke 19:15-19 (NIV) “He was made king, however, and returned home. Then he sent for the servants to whom he had given the money, in order to find out what they had gained with it. “The first one came and said, ‘Sir, your mina has earned ten more.’...
by Will | Mar 28, 2018 | Scripture Meditations
Luke 19:14 (NIV) “But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, ‘We don’t want this man to be our king.’” The people who hated this nobleman were not his servants (although one of the servants had a low opinion of his master –...
by Will | Mar 27, 2018 | Scripture Meditations
Luke 19:11-13 (NIV) While they were listening to this, he went on to tell them a parable, because he was near Jerusalem and the people thought that the kingdom of God was going to appear at once. He said: “A man of noble birth went to a distant country to have himself...
by Will | Mar 27, 2018 | Scripture Meditations
Luke 19:1-10 (NIV) Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through. A man was there by the name of Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector and was wealthy. He wanted to see who Jesus was, but being a short man he could not, because of the crowd. So he ran ahead and...
