Jump Start # 80
Jump Start # 80 Luke 17:32 “Remember Lot’s wife.” Most can recall the shortest verse in the Bible, “Jesus wept.” Our verse for today has to fall into second place, with only three words. Jesus spoke this as a warning. The chapter concerns the coming fall of Jerusalem. Jesus is giving His disciples advanced […]
Jump Start # 79
Jump Start # 79 John 14:6 “Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.” This is one of our Lord’s famous statements. It is a description of Himself. Similar to what God said to Moses long ago, when asked […]
Jump Start # 78
Jump Start # 78 Matthew 17:5 “While he was still speaking, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and behold, a voice out of the cloud said, “This is My beloved Son, with whom I am well-pleased; listen to Him.” The occasion of this passage is the transfiguration of Jesus. The first three Gospels record this. […]
Jump Start # 77
Jump Start # 77 Luke 10:20 “Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are recorded in Heaven.” Luke records the return of the seventy disciples from the limited commission. Jesus had sent out these seventy to preach and do miracles. This is called […]
Jump Start # 76
Jump Start # 76 Luke 19:5 “When Jesus came to the place, He looked up and said to him, ‘Zaccheus, hurry and come down, for today I must stay at your house.’” So many of us fondly remember singing the song about the “wee little man who climbed up in the Sycamore tree, for […]