
Today’s devotional looks at Mark 10:14-15, teaching about childlike faith, in light of the Feast of St. Nicholas.

“And if anyone says anything to you, you shall say, ‘The Lord needs them,’ and he will send them on immediately.”

As we begin Advent, a new year begins on the church calendar. We leave the past behind us and look ahead in anticipation.

He said to them, “My cup you shall drink; but to sit at My right and at My left is not Mine to give, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared by My Father” (Matthew 20:23).

“Truly I say to you, it will be hard for a rich person to enter the kingdom of heaven. And again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”

And He answered and said, “Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two,…

Jesus’ parable of the sheep and the goats asks: How will we respond to Him as our Savior, Shepherd, and King?

Jesus told a parable about a man who had been forgiven an absurdly high debt who would not forgive a much smaller one. Let us forgive as we have been forgiven.

Let us give thanks to the Lord during our Thanksgiving celebration.

“Because of your meager faith; for truly I say to you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you” (Matthew 17:20).