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  • Daily Devotional – Thursday, October 19, 2017

    Living Stones – Thursday, October 19, 2017 Finders, keepers Matthew 13:44 “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and hid; and for joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.” In this parable to

  • Daily Devotional – Wednesday, October 18, 2017

    Living Stones – Wednesday, October 18, 2017 The secret agent Matthew 13:33 Another parable He spoke to them: “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal till it was all leavened.” In His continuing efforts to describe what the Kingdom

  • Daily Devotional – Tuesday, October 17, 2017

    Living Stones – Tuesday, October 17, 2017 The mustard tree Matthew 13:30 Another parable He put forth to them, saying: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field, which indeed is the least of all the seeds; but when it

  • Daily Devotional – Monday, October 16, 2017

    Living Stones – Monday, October 16, 2017 The bearded darnel Matthew 13:30 Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my

  • Daily Devotional – Saturday, October 14, 2017

    Living Stones – Saturday, October 14, 2017 How do you hear? Matthew 13:3-5 Then He spoke many things to them in parables, saying: “Behold, a sower went out to sow. More and more Jesus is preaching by the sea as the Jewish leadership become more hostile. Like He did before,

  • Daily Devotional – Friday, October 13, 2017

    Living Stones – Friday, October 13, 2017 Make the word profitable Hebrews 4:2 For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it. Many today attend church

  • Daily Devotional – Thursday, October 12, 2017

    Living Stones – Thursday, October 12, 2017 God’s time, not ours John 7:6 Then Jesus said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready. In John chapter 7 and verses 1 to 6 we get a glimpse of some of the cut and thrust

  • Daily Devotional – Wednesday, October 11, 2017

    Living Stones – Wednesday, October 11, 2017 Gaining the whole world Luke 9:25 For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and is himself destroyed or lost? We are still on this question of self-denial. Jesus, starting in verse 24 of Luke 9, made

  • Daily Devotional – Tuesday, October 10, 2017

    Living Stones – Tuesday, October 10, 2017 Self-denial Luke 9:23 Then He said to them all, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me. Shortly after the feeding of the five thousand and the clamoring crowds, and just

  • Daily Devotional – Monday, October 9, 2017

    Living Stones – Monday, October 9, 2017  Do you want to get well? John 5:6-7 When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he already had been in that condition a long time, He said to him, “Do you want to be made well?” The sick man answered Him,

  • Daily Devotional – Saturday, October 7, 2017

    Living Stones – Saturday, October 7, 2017  The words are life  John 6:68-69 But Simon Peter answered Him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. Also we have come to believe and know that You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

  • Daily Devotional – Friday, October 6, 2017

    Living Stones – Friday, October 6, 2017 To go or to stay John 6:66-67 From that time many of His disciples went back and walked with Him no more. Then Jesus said to the twelve, “Do you also want to go away?” The dramatic engagement about bread, between Jesus and

  • Daily Devotional – Thursday, October 5, 2017

    Living Stones – Thursday, October 5, 2017 This is a hard one John 6:60 Therefore many of His disciples, when they heard this, said, “This is a hard saying; who can understand it?” The things that Jesus says present us with challenges. We are challenged to accept Jesus as the

  • Daily Devotional – Wednesday, October 4, 2017

    Living Stones – Wednesday, October 4, 2017 Food indeed? John 6:55 For My flesh is food indeed, and My blood is drink indeed. Jesus answers the murmuring Jews with a speech that is probably the most difficult passage in the new testament for us to wrap our minds around. Eating

  • Daily Devotional – Tuesday, October 3, 2017

    Living Stones – Tuesday, October 3, 2017 Background check  John 6:42 And they said, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How is it then that He says, ‘I have come down from heaven’?” In verses 41-51 of this sixth chapter of John’s

  • The bread of life

    The bread of life Monday, October 2, 2017  John 6:35 “I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst. Jesus now takes on this argument about bread frontally. The guys weren’t getting the deeper point he

  • More bread

    More bread Saturday, September 30, 2017  John 6:26 “Lord, give us this bread always.” So now they want more bread. This matter of the bread is not coming to an end. We are so tied to our bodies and the natural that that it takes quite a long time for

  • Prove it with bread

    Prove it with bread Friday, September 29, 2017  John 6:26 Jesus answered them and said, “Most assuredly, I say to you, you seek Me, not because you saw the signs, but because you ate of the loaves and were filled. Give guys freeness and they will keep coming after you

  • 12 baskets full

    12 baskets full Thursday, September 28, 2017  John 6:12-13 So when they were filled, He said to His disciples, “Gather up the fragments that remain, so that nothing is lost.” Therefore they gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves which were left

  • God’s perspective: What do you have?

    God’s perspective: What do you have? Wednesday, September 27, 2017 John 6:11 And Jesus took the loaves, and when He had given thanks He distributed them to the disciples, and the disciples to those sitting down; and likewise of the fish, as much as they wanted. Andrew, carrying some human

  • God’s perspective: Packed lunch

    God’s perspective: Packed lunch Tuesday, September 26, 2017  John 6:9 “There is a lad here who has five barley loaves and two small fish, but what are they among so many?” The drama on the Galilean seaside is heating up. Philip has completed his observations and his calculations. He has

  • Daily Devotional – Monday, September 25, 2017

    Living Stones – Monday, September 25, 2017 God’s perspective  John 6:6 He Himself knew what He would do. John chapter 6, verses 1 to 14, records a story with which we are very familiar. Jesus fed 5,000 men with a little boy’s packed lunch. We are also familiar with the

  • Daily Devotional – Saturday, September 23, 2017

    Living Stones – Saturday, September 23, 2017 Faith that fits our fancy  Ephesians 4:23-24 … be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and … put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness. Well, the mind changes the man. In this section of

  • Daily Devotional – Friday, September 22, 2017

    Living Stones – Friday, September 22, 2017 High-minded  I Corinthians 2:16 … we have the mind of Christ. In our culture, when we say that someone is “high-minded” we are suggesting that they are trying to think and operate on a plane above their natural level; they may be poor,

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