Devotional
Every Skill Is a Gift
…asking, Is not this the carpenter? about Jesus, whose ordinary trade in Nazareth preceded His public ministry. Years of skilled manual work were not wasted years for the Son of God.
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Devotional
The Cry That Reaches God
…Luke 4:18 records Jesus reading from Isaiah 61 in the synagogue at Nazareth, announcing good news to the poor and freedom for the oppressed, applying to Himself the same concern for the afflicted that Exodus 3 shows in…
Devotional
The Time Is Fulfilled
…different content: not Caesar's reign but God's, arriving in a man from Nazareth. Matthew 4:17 The same announcement in Matthew's account: repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Daniel 2:44 A kingdom the God of…
Devotional
Today This Scripture Is Fulfilled
…been fulfilled in your hearing." WEB Jesus stands in the synagogue at Nazareth, reads from Isaiah 61 about good news to the poor, freedom for captives, and sight for the blind, then sits down and says the passage is…
Devotional
Waiting While Doing the Next Right Thing
…Christ took the form of a servant, and his years of ordinary work in Nazareth before his public ministry began are passed over in near silence by the Gospels. Faithful, unseen waiting was part of his life before it was…
52 Week Journey
Week 16: Obedience and Love
…that earns love. It looks at Abraham, Israel at Sinai, Mary at Nazareth, the rich young ruler, and the apostle John's own later letter, because the theme runs the length of the whole book and none of these accounts say…
52 Week Journey
Week 45: Promises Fulfilled in Christ
…to pass. WEB Today This Scripture Is Fulfilled Jesus reads Isaiah in Nazareth and announces His own arrival. Luke 4:21 He began to tell them, "Today, this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing." WEB
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Biblical concept
Messiah and Christ
…and applies to himself. Luke 4:18 Jesus stands in the synagogue at Nazareth and announces that Isaiah's anointing has been fulfilled that day, in their hearing. Acts 2:36 Peter's Pentecost sermon concludes that God has…
Biblical concept
Oil and anointing
…4 is the hinge for the whole theme. Jesus stands in the synagogue at Nazareth, reads Isaiah 61 about the Spirit anointing Him to preach good news to the poor, sits down and says today this Scripture has been fulfilled…
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Bible question
Who is Jesus?
…the fig tree John 1:45-49 He assumed nothing good could come out of Nazareth and came only because Philip insisted that he come and see. Jesus described where Nathanael had been before they met, and Nathanael answered,…
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