Daily Grace

One passage. One idea. A few quiet minutes. Short devotional readings for people being formed by grace, written from a small chair beside still water in Falcon, Colorado.

Pull one up. Read slowly. There is no hurry here.

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You Will Never Get to the Bottom of It

And Jesus, at the end of the whole exchange, having told him a story that dismantled his entire framework, sends him away with a thing to do.

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Do One Thing

The parable ends with a command, and it is the shortest one in the chapter.

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The Name He Could Not Say

Look at his answer. Jesus asks which of the three was a neighbor, and the man does not say the Samaritan.

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No Assessment

He could not. He was half dead in a ditch. He did not put out a request, he did not qualify for a program, he did not fill out a form or demonstrate need or express gratitude in advance or promise to use the help wisely.

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Whatever More You Spend

Because the great fear of anyone who loves people is running out.

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The Innkeeper

There is a fourth man in the story and almost nobody notices him.

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What They Let It Do

Read it again. The priest saw him. The Levite came to the place and saw him. The Samaritan saw him.

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The Ones Who Passed

The priest and the Levite are not villains, and if you read them as villains you will miss yourself entirely.

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A Category Turned Into a Verb

Luke tells us exactly why the lawyer asks it, and Luke does not soften it. Desiring to justify himself.

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What Tuesday Reveals

The Great Commandment tells you what actually matters, and it is two things, and they are not separable.

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The Question Behind the Question

A lawyer stands up in a crowd and asks Jesus what he must do to inherit eternal life, and everybody in that room knows the question is a snare.