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MATINS DEVOTIONS
Matins Devotion: June 5, 2025
Luke 20:1-18 In our reading from Luke this morning, the chief priests and scribes start what seems to be a theological debate with Jesus....

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Jun 52 min read
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Matins Devotion: June 4, 2025
Psalm 118:19-25 Psalm 118 begins with the refrain of “His steadfast love endures forever.” “Let Israel say, ‘His steadfast love endures...

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Jun 41 min read
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Matins Devotion: June 3, 2025
Luke 19:11-28 As is often the case with Christ’s parables, the parable of the ten minas has two different audiences. It’s a parable told...

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Jun 42 min read
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Matins Devotion: Monday, June 2
Luke 18:35-19:10 Every now and then, I hear people talk about how they don’t go to church anymore because they were hurt by people in the...

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Jun 42 min read
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Matins Devotion: May 30, 2025
Psalm 77:11-15 There is, of course, only one God. So when the Old Testament speaks of Israel’s God’s being greater than all other gods,...

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May 302 min read
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Matins Devotion: May 28, 2025
Luke 16:19-31 “Child, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner bad things; but now he is...

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May 282 min read
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Matins Devotion: May 27, 2025
Luke 16:1-18 The parable of the dishonest manager is probably the most confusing of Christ’s parables, certainly the hardest to preach...

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May 272 min read
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Matins Devotion: May 21, 2025
Luke 12:35-53 When Jesus says that He has come not to bring peace but division, He doesn’t mean this in an immediate sense, of course....

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May 212 min read
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Matins Devotion: May 20, 2025
Luke 12:13-34 “Man, who made me a judge or arbitrator over you.” It’s a rather funny response Jesus gives the man who wants Him to tell...

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May 212 min read
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Matins Devotion: May 19, 2025
Luke 12:1-12 When I was growing up, I often heard Christians quote this verse about God knowing the number hairs on your head in a sort...

Pastor Hans Fiene
May 212 min read
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Matins Devotions: May 12-16, 2025
MONDAY Luke 9:18-36 When you consider the inexplicable joy that Peter, James, and John experienced atop the mountain of transfiguration,...

Pastor Hans Fiene
May 216 min read
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Matins Devotions: May 5-9, 2025
MONDAY Luke 7:1-17 Something I’ve noticed in my years as a pastor is that people who don’t know how to be “a man set under authority,”...

Pastor Hans Fiene
May 215 min read
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Matins Devotions: April 28-May 2, 2025
MONDAY Exodus 22:20-2:13 Our reading from Exodus this morning begins with a severe threat of condemnation, a severe law. Anyone who...

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May 216 min read
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Matins Devotion: April 8, 2025
Exodus 2:23-3:22 When God calls Moses to be a prophet and the leader of His people, it’s not just a commissioning. It’s a table read....

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Apr 82 min read
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Matins Devotion: April 7, 2025
Exodus 2:1-22 There’s something almost comical about the story of Moses’ mother. In the midst of absolute terror, in the midst of murder...

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Apr 72 min read
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Matins Devotion: April 4, 2025
Mark 13:24-27 A number of years ago, a man I didn’t know called me at church. The man desperately wanted to have lunch to explain how he...

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Apr 72 min read
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Matins Devotion: April 3, 2025
Mark 13:1-23 An obvious but interesting thing about the false Christs our Lord mentions in our reading is that they all come after him....

Pastor Hans Fiene
Apr 32 min read
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Matins Devotion: April 2, 2025
Genesis 44 It’s easy to be a man of your word if you never have to keep it. It’s easy to make promises if you never have to deliver on...

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Apr 22 min read
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Matins Devotion: April 1, 2025
Mark 12:13-27 It’s a cunning trap the Pharisees have set for Jesus. They go to him with the Herodians, Jews who are loyal to the Romans,...

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Apr 12 min read
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Matins Devotion: March 31, 2025
Mark 12:1-12 In Matthew 23, Jesus notes that the Pharisees say to themselves, “if we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not...

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Mar 312 min read
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