Daily DEVOTIONAL

Luke 7:36-50: Love Much

July 3, 2025

1 Chronicles 5-6, Psalm 126, Luke 7:36-50, Colossians 2:1-7  Luke 7:36-50: In many ways one of the most important stories in the Bible for clarifying the nature of the gospel today is in front of us this morning. A “woman of the city” who is a “sinner”—almost certainly together intended as euphemisms for a prostitute—comes to Jesus while…

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