The 260 Journey

Day 60Today’s Reading: Luke 16What if you could hear from someone who had died, and they could tell you what’s on the other side? That’s what a story in today’s reading is. It’s a story that will stop you in your tracks. It’s the story of eternity. It’s the story of what’s beyond. More specifically, it’s a story about hell, realized too late.There was a rich man, and he habitually dressed in...

Day 59Today’s Reading: Luke 15Today’s reading contains one of the most incredible stories ever told. We call it the story of the prodigal son. Let’s read it together:[Jesus] said, “A man had two sons. The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of the estate that falls to me.’ So he divided his wealth between them. And not many days later, the younger son gathered...

Day 58Today’s Reading: Luke 14You’ve been invited to a big party. Not just a party but God’s party. And it lasts a really long time . . . for eternity. In order to understand how this party works, Jesus told a parable. And what makes this parable amazing is when and where He told it.I come from a family in which dinner table talk was the norm. Dinner would last a long time not because eating took...

Day 57Today’s Reading: Luke 13There are more than 7 billion people on earth. Nearly sixty million of them will die this year. That is approximately 153,000 people dying every day, 6,400 people dying every hour, 107 people dying every minute, two people dying every second. Not a great thought to start your day.Death is unavoidable and undeniable, and you will one day become one of these...

Day 56Today’s Reading: Luke 12A. W. Tozer, the famous Christian writer, said that there are seven ways to really know ourselves and know what our character is like. He called them rules for self discovery. They are:1. What we want most2. What we think about most3. What we laugh at4. What we do with our leisure time5. The company we enjoy6. Who and what we admire7. How we use our moneyHow we use...

Day 55Today’s Reading: Luke 11When it comes to giving a gift today, one of the most popular gifts, which doesn’t require much thought or effort, is a gift card.According to the National Retail Federation, about 59 percent of shoppers will purchase a gift card for friends and family. According to estimates, the typical American home has an average of $300 in unused or “unredeemed” gift cards in...

Day 54Today’s Reading: Luke 10A politician finds their opponent on the side of the road with their car broken down, do they stop and help her? If a die-hard Yankees fan sees a Boston Red Sox fan at a check-out at a local store and he is short money, does the Yankees fan help him?More serious: if a racial justice advocate sees an adversary standing at a stop light with a legitimate sign that says...

Day 53Today’s Reading: Luke 9Can we have a promise from Jesus that doesn’t work for us? Can Jesus tell us what we are to do and then we can’t do it?That’s the situation we find in today’s reading. In Luke 9, we are filled with faith and expectation from the very first verses and then just forty verses later, we are overcome with failure in what we were told to do.“Jesus, You promised, and now I...

Day 52Today's Reading: Luke 8A friend of mine said, “You’re only as sick as your secrets.” Christianity is not something that works well with secrets.In fact, in today’s reading we come to an amazing chapter packed with teaching, healing, and miracles. Tucked away in this long chapter is one thing that Jesus taught that particularly stands out to me:Nothing is hidden that will not become evident,...

Day 51Today's Reading: Luke 7Today we land on Luke 7. In the last story of the chapter (verses 36-50), Jesus is in a house with a number of religious people and a prostitute comes in and washes His feet with her hair. This is how pastor and author Chuck Swindoll explains it in a chapter titled “Jesus at His Best:”While families gather for dinner and close their door for the night, her workday...