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Read John 21:1-19 with your family. This is an add-on chapter that was not part of the original Gospel of John. We do not know when it was added, but it is important because it asks questions of Peter and the closest followers of…
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Read John 20:19-29 with your family. It is okay to ask questions when it comes to Jesus and believing. The people who knew Jesus in person had questions too. In this story we hear about Thomas, commonly known today as “Doubting Thomas”. He wanted…
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Read Luke 24:1-12 with your family. He is risen! He is risen, indeed! Happy Easter It’s hard to imagine that between the Palm Sunday celebration from last week and the Easter celebration this week, that we have had the saddest week in the Christian…
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Read Luke 19:28-40 with your family. When people are excited everyone can feel it. That was what it was like when Jesus entered Jerusalem. For years old people had been telling young people about the promise of a saviour, of a person who would…
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Read Luke 15:11-32 with your family. When we read this story about the lost son, so many focus on the younger son who realized he made a mistake by leaving his father’s home, and returned asking for some basic help, but instead found himself…
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Read Luke 13:1-9 with your family. Often when Jesus is asked a question he does not answer it. Or when he does answer he is talking about something different from the original question. In this story we hear about 18 people crushed when a…
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Read Luke 13:31-35 with your family. A lament is someone thinking or saying out loud how sad they are about something happening that they wish they could have changed. In this reading with have Jesus making a lament over Jerusalem, the city where every…
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Read Luke 4:1-13 with your family. As soon as Jesus was baptized, as soon as he came out of the water and the Holy Spirit came upon him, as soon as God said Jesus was the beloved son, Jesus did something different than most…
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Read Luke 9:28-43 with your family. Transfiguration Sunday is the name we give the Sunday before Lent begins. It has that name because this is the time in our Biblical story this is where the change happens, where God lets people know that Jesus…
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Read Luke 5:1-11 with your family. In the other Gospels, once Jesus is baptized and spends time in the desert, he immediately goes to ask the people he chose to be disciples. In Luke we already have Jesus hard at work before asking anyone…
The Barefoot evangelist 