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Daily Devotion

Start or finish each day in God’s word, with devotions written by LCANZ members. Sign up to receive Daily Devotion in your inbox every morning. Permission is granted to print and publish these devotions with this acknowledgement: ‘Reproduced with permission: Lutheran Church of Australia 2025.’ If possible, please provide a link to the Daily Devotion archive page: www.lca.org.au/daily-devotion. LCA Communications is producing a week of devotions in advance in ready-to-print format for congregations to deliver to members. To receive a link to the printable sets each week, simply ask us at lca.comms@lca.org.au. Click here to find the print versions of Daily Devotion.

05
Apr2022

Trusting God when everything goes wrong

by Charles Bertelsmeier

In fact, we expected to die. But as a result, we stopped relying on ourselves and learned to rely only on God, who raises the dead (2 Corinthians 1:9).

04
Apr2022

Responding to Jesus

by Charles Bertelsmeier

Then Pharisees called the high council together. ‘What are we going to do? If we allow him to go on like this, soon everyone will believe in him’ (John 11:47,48).

03
Apr2022

Responding to God’s love

by Charles Bertelsmeier

Then Mary took a twelve-ounce jar of expensive perfume made from essence of nard, and she anointed Jesus’ feet with it, wiping his feet with her hair. (John 12:3).

02
Apr2022

Community

by Dianne Eckermann

Those who sow with tears will reap with songs of joy (Psalm 126:5).

01
Apr2022

Seeing Jesus

by Dianne Eckermann

He wanted to see who Jesus was, but because he was short he could not see over the crowd. So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore-fig tree to see him, since Jesus was coming that way (Luke 19: 3,4).

31
Mar2022

Blessing the children

by Dianne Eckermann

And [Jesus] took the children in his arms, placed his hands on them and blessed them (Mark 10:16).