Power in Preparation


January 27

Read Luke 3:21-23 OBSERVATION: WHAT DOES THE TEXT SAY?  21 When all the people were being baptized, Jesus was baptized too. And as he was praying, heaven was opened 22...


January 25

Read Hebrews 1:8-9 OBSERVATION: WHAT DOES THE TEXT SAY?  8 But about the Son he says, “Your throne, O God, will last for ever and ever; a scepter of justice...


January 24

Read Matthew 3:13-17 OBSERVATION: WHAT DOES THE TEXT SAY?  13 Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptized by John. 14 But John tried to deter him,...


January 22

Read John 11:7-19 OBSERVATION: WHAT DOES THE TEXT SAY?  7 and then he said to his disciples, “Let us go back to Judea.” 8 “But Rabbi,” they said, “a short...


January 21

Read Mark 1:2-8 OBSERVATION: WHAT DOES THE TEXT SAY?  as it is written in Isaiah the prophet: “I will send my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way”[a]—...


January 20

Read Luke 3:1-17 OBSERVATION: WHAT DOES THE TEXT SAY?  In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar—when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod tetrarch of Galilee, his...


January 19

Read Luke 1:11-17 OBSERVATION: WHAT DOES THE TEXT SAY?  11 Then an angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing at the right side of the altar of incense. 12...


January 18

Read Isaiah 40:3-11 OBSERVATION: WHAT DOES THE TEXT SAY?  3 A voice of one calling: “In the wilderness prepare the way for the Lord[a]; make straight in the desert a...


January 17

Read Matthew 3:1-12 OBSERVATION: WHAT DOES THE TEXT SAY?  In those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea 2 and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of...