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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
Oct2017

A popular Jesus

They crossed the lake and came to land at Gennesaret, where they tied up the boat. As they left the boat, people recognised Jesus at once. So they ran throughout… Read more

04
Oct2017

A character test

He said to them, ‘Let us go off by ourselves to some place where we will be alone and you can rest a while’. So they started out in a… Read more

03
Oct2017

Guilty

John the Baptist kept telling Herod, ‘It isn’t right for you to marry your brother’s wife!’ So Herodias held a grudge against John and wanted to kill him, but she… Read more

02
Oct2017

Excess baggage?

He called the twelve disciples together and sent them out two by two. He gave them authority over the evil spirits and ordered them, ‘Don’t take anything with you on… Read more

01
Oct2017

What you say and what you do

‘Now what do you think? There was once a man who had two sons.’ He went to the older one and said, “Son, go and work in the vineyard today.”… Read more

30
Sep2017

Maybe shame but not defeat

To you, O LORD I offer my prayer; in you, my God, I trust. Save me from the shame of defeat; don’t let my enemies gloat over me!    (verses 1, 2) Read Psalm… Read more