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Devotionals about Gospels

Jesus

Triumphal Entry

Read: Matthew 21:1-11 Hosanna to the Son of David! (v. 9) As people lined the streets, throwing their cloaks on the ground before Jesus, they cried out, “Hosanna!” which means, “Lord,

Jesus

Prepared for Burial

Read: Mark 14:1-11 She has done a beautiful thing to me. (v. 6) Sometime during the meal, a woman came in. She brought a bottle of perfume, likely the most valuable

Jesus

Take Up Your Cross

Read: Matthew 16:21-26 Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. (v. 24 NIV) What does it look like to follow Jesus?

Gospels

Running Where Jesus Ran

Read: Hebrews 12:1-3 Looking to Jesus . . . (v. 2) Where do you look when you’re running? You could look behind you, where you’ve already run, but if you do, you might

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Jesus

Pray to the Lord of the Harvest

Read: Matthew 9:35-38 The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore pray . . . (v. 37) The 20th-century evangelical leader John Stott said that the world’s great

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Jesus

Two Last Miracles

Read: Matthew 9:27-34 Never was anything like this seen in Israel. (v. 33) Opening the eyes of the two blind men and loosening the tongue of the deaf-mute are the

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Healing

A Dead Girl and a Sick Woman

Read: Matt. 9:18-26; Mark 5:21-43 Little girl . . . arise. (Mark 5:41) This section of Matthew recounts two intertwined miracles. In both cases Jesus is not contaminated by contact

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Jesus

Follow Me

Read: Matthew 9:9-13 As Jesus passed on from there . . . he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax booth. (v. 9) The only thing Matthew tells

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Jesus

The Forgiveness of Sins

Read: Matthew 9:1-8 Take heart . . . your sins are forgiven. (v. 2) Every time we recite the Apostles’ Creed we say, “I believe in . . . the