A Word for Today | Revelation 1:5 The apostle John opens the book of Revelation by offering us grace and peace from “Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth” (Rev. 1:5). Not many of us would describe Jesus in these terms. But the apostle sees […]
“Jesus Stopped”
A Word for Today | Luke 18:35-40 The final miracle performed by Jesus that Luke records took place towards the end of Jesus’ final trip to Jerusalem. Luke 9:51 marks the major transition in Luke’s Gospel, when after Peter’s great confession and Jesus’ transfiguration on the mount, He “set his face to go to Jerusalem,” […]
Sight to the Blind
A Word for Today | Luke 18:35-43 The afflicted people in Luke’s miracle accounts are a portrait gallery of sin and its effects. Leprosy shows sin’s corrupting power. The lame man shows the weakness that comes from sin. The dead man shows the sinner’s spiritual inability; the demon-possessed show sin’s destructive bondage. Together, these victims […]
Jesus’ Sovereign Offer
A Word for Today | Luke 18:41 Jesus’ passage through the city of Jericho on His way to the cross supplies us with proof of His compassionate love. When poor blind Bartimaeus cried out for mercy, “Jesus stopped” our Lord gave His full attention to this soul in need (Lk. 18:40). The account continues as […]
Do We Give Thanks?
A Word for Today | Luke 17:15-19 The Protestant Reformers summarized the Christian life with the words guilt, grace, and gratitude. They meant that we begin guilty before God, are saved by a wonderful sovereign grace, and the result in our lives is thanksgiving to God. As Luke concluded his account of Jesus’ healing of […]
Taking Jesus at His Word
A Word for Today | Luke 17:14 Luke 17: 11-13 tells of a group of ten lepers who spied Jesus in the distance and cried out to Him for mercy. In a previous miracle, Jesus had confronted a poor leper who asked for compassion. Jesus had lovingly touched his corrupted flesh and cleansed the man […]
