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Today’s Scripture – April 16, 2018
Luke 19:47-48 (NIV) Every day he was teaching at the temple. But the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the leaders among the people were trying to kill him. Yet they could not find any way to do it, because all the people hung on his words. Jesus’ life was in...
Today’s Scripture – April 13, 2018
Luke 19:45-46 (NIV) Then he entered the temple area and began driving out those who were selling. "It is written," he said to them, "'My house will be a house of prayer'; but you have made it 'a den of robbers.'" The market in the temple court, actually in the large...
Today’s Scripture – April 11, 2018
Luke 19:41-44 (NIV) As he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it and said, "If you, even you, had only known on this day what would bring you peace--but now it is hidden from your eyes. The days will come upon you when your enemies will build an...
Today’s Scripture – April 9, 2018
Luke 19:39-40 (NIV) Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Jesus, "Teacher, rebuke your disciples!" "I tell you," he replied, "if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out." To these Pharisees, the shouting and overt joy of the disciples seemed inappropriate. After...
Today’s Scripture – April 8, 2018
Luke 19:28-38 (NIV) After Jesus had said this, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem. As he approached Bethphage and Bethany at the hill called the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples, saying to them, "Go to the village ahead of you, and as you enter it,...
Today’s Scripture – April 4, 2018
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 in this...
Today’s Scripture – April 3, 2018
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 master replied,...
Today’s Scripture – April 2, 2018
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.' “'Well done, my good...
Today’s Scripture – March 28, 2018
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 – verse 21), but were...
Today’s Scripture – March 27, 2018
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...