Category: Devotionals
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Anointed by Mary
Welcome to Day 33 of Journey to the Cross, a forty-day devotional leading to Easter. We have only about a week left. Today we continue in the passage we started yesterday in John 12. Then Mary took a pound of perfume, pure and expensive nard, anointed Jesus’s feet, and wiped his feet with her hair.…
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Living Proof
Welcome to Day 32 of Journey to the Cross, a forty-day devotional leading to Easter. Today we look at the significance of some names. Let’s look first at John 12. Six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany where Lazarus was, the one Jesus had raised from the dead. So they gave a dinner…
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Welcomed by Name
Welcome to Day 31 of Journey to the Cross, a forty-day devotional preparing our hearts for Easter Sunday. Today we look at the famous story of Zacchaeus in Luke 19. He entered Jericho and was passing through. There was a man named Zacchaeus who was a chief tax collector, and he was rich. He was…
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Journeying with Purpose
Welcome to Day 30 of Journey to the Cross. We are down to only 10 days left! Today we look at moving with a purpose in Luke 18. Then he took the Twelve aside and told them, “See, we are going up to Jerusalem. Everything that is written through the prophets about the Son of…
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Death to Death
Welcome to Day 29 of Journey to the Cross. Today we begin looking at the purpose of the journey. John 17:3 says, “This is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.” People who travel do so for a reason. Jesus had a clear purpose in…
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Along For The Ride
Welcome to Day 28 of Journey to the Cross, a forty-day devotional leading to Easter. As should be expected, after Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead, many people believed in Him. Yet some went to the Pharisees and told them about what Jesus had done. We read their response in John 11:47-53. So the chief…
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Tears of the Journey
Welcome to Day 27 of Journey to the Cross, a forty-day devotional leading to Easter. Not every trip is full of joy. Today we look at the tears along the journey. A few days ago, we saw that Jesus delayed in coming to Lazarus so that God would be glorified. We pick up that story…
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God’s Plans Cannot Go Awry
Welcome to Day 26 of Journey to the Cross. Can anything change God’s plans? Can anything prevent God’s will? Today we look at this idea. In Matthew 12, Jesus and His disciples were passing through some grain fields on the Sabbath. Being hungry, His disciples picked some heads of grain to eat. The Pharisees considered…
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When the Grumbling Starts
Welcome to Day 25 of Journey to the Cross, a forty-day devotional leading to Easter. Let’s talk about everyone’s favorite subject: grumbling and complaining. We will begin by reading Luke 5:27-30. After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax office, and he said to him, “Follow me.”…
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Go with God
Welcome to Day 24 of Journey to the Cross, a forty-day devotional leading to Easter. Today we look at going with God. Luke 5:16 tells us that Jesus would often withdraw to desolate places to pray. Going out into the wilderness, far from civilization is a great way to get alone with God. If you…
Joel McReynolds 