May 13th, 2026
Read John 11:32-36 When Mary reached the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit […]
May 12th, 2026
Read Matthew 15:32 Jesus called his disciples to him and said, “I have compassion for these people; they have already been with me three days and have nothing to eat. I do not want to send them away hungry, or they may collapse on the way.” Yesterday we explored how compassion starts with seeing. Today, […]
May 11th, 2026
Read: Matthew 14:14 When Jesus landed and saw a large crowd, he had compassion on them and healed their sick. If you read through the gospels and pay attention to the flow of narrative, you’ll eventually begin to notice a pattern, that Jesus displays, of seeing and responding. He sees people in physical need and […]
May 10th, 2026
Read John 3:16-17 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Compassion is a deep awareness […]
May 9th, 2026
“Now Thomas (also known as Didymus), one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord!” But he said to them, “Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand […]
May 8th, 2026
“In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in […]
May 7th, 2026
Read John 4:1–26 The woman at the well arrived at midday, likely hoping to avoid others. Her past carried shame, and her present circumstances left her isolated. Yet on that ordinary day, she encountered the incarnate Christ. Jesus initiated the conversation. This detail is crucial. The incarnation shows us that God does not wait passively […]
May 6th, 2026
“That day when evening came, he said to his disciples, “Let us go over to the other side.” Leaving the crowd behind, they took him along, just as he was, in the boat. There were also other boats with him. A furious squall came up, and the waves broke over the boat, so that it […]
May 5th, 2026
Read John 3:1–17 Nicodemus came to Jesus at night, quietly and cautiously. He was a Pharisee—a religious leader, a teacher of Israel, a man who understood the law and traditions better than most. Yet despite all his knowledge, he sensed that something about Jesus was different. The miracles, the authority, the wisdom—these pointed to something […]
May 4th, 2026
Read Luke 2:8–18 The shepherds were not scholars, priests, or rulers. They were ordinary laborers—men whose work kept them outside the social and religious spotlight. Yet when God chose to announce the birth of the Messiah, He did not begin in the palace or the temple. He began in a field. This detail is not […]
