Devotionals about Jesus

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The Birth

Read: Luke 2:1-7 And she gave birth to her firstborn son. (v. 7) Christmas is nine days off yet, but today we come to Luke’s classic telling of Jesus’ birth

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A New Song

Read: Luke 1:67-80 And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High. (v. 76) Zechariah used his nine months of silence to deepen his relationship with God.

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Fear and Wondering

Read: Luke 1:57-66 And fear came on all their neighbors. (v. 65) We often miss the Bible’s humor. God himself invented humor, and anyone who has ever watched a one-year-old

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Magnifying

Read: Luke 1:46-56 My soul magnifies the Lord. (v. 46) We have been thinking about God’s reversal of normal expectations the last couple of days. Now in Mary’s song we

Advent

Filled

Read: Luke 1:39-45 And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. (v. 41) Pentecost gets all the attention in terms of the outpouring of God’s Holy Spirit. Certainly that was

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Let It Be

Read: Luke 1:26-38 Greetings, O favored one, the Lord is with you! (v. 28) The writer Frederick Buechner once imagined that as Gabriel waited to hear Mary’s response to the

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Questioning an Angel

Read: Luke 1:8-25 And there appeared to him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar. (v. 11) Zechariah asked a logical question. A bit

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The Miracle Child

Read: Luke 1:5-7 But they had no child. (v. 7) I once heard a biblical scholar compare the Bible to a piano keyboard. But in the case of the Bible,

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Certainty

Read: Luke 1:1-4 . . . that you may have certainty concerning the things you have been taught. (v. 4) If Luke’s Gospel never existed, most of what we associate