'Hypocrisy' Tagged Posts
Daily Devotions
The Lord watches over the strangers; he upholds the orphan and the widow, but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin.” vs. 9 Psalm 146:5-9 After his baptism, when Jesus was in the wilderness hammering out the terms of his call in the distracting presence of the devil, he didn’t get a new playbook from the Spirit. When he emerged from the desert, all his preaching and teaching came directly from the words of the prophets and the…
Daily Devotions
I will say to my soul, ‘Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.’ But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you.’” vss. 19-20a Luke 12:16-21 If any of the people in the crowd around Jesus were familiar with the book of Ecclesiastes, they would have realized that the truths contained in his parable on greed were found in its pages. While some of…
Daily Devotions: August 18, 2019
August 18, 2019 For full passage click: Luke 12:54-56 … “You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of earth and sky, but why do you not know how to interpret the present time?” vs. 56 There are times when we humans are pretty adept at making our predictions. Like folks in Jesus’ day, we’re even skilled at figuring out what the weather is going to be, and we don’t even look at the clouds. A quick look at…