The Living Word: A Daily Devotional with Jeff & Dale from The Jenkins Institute
The Living Word is a daily devotional featuring Scripture and encouragement from Jeff and Dale of The Jenkins Institute. Each episode offers a thoughtful reading to coincide with the daily devotional guides from our annual devotional books. They are designed to help listeners begin or end their day grounded in God’s Word.
The Living Word: A Daily Devotional with Jeff & Dale from The Jenkins Institute
Week 12: Monday The Kingdom of Heaven Like Leaven
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This week, we explore one of Jesus’ short parables, one verse in Matthew
13:33 and two verses in Luke 13:20-21. Matthew records, “He told them
another parable. ‘The kingdom of heaven is like leaven that a woman
took and hid in three measures of flour, till it was all leavened’” (Matthew
13:33, ESV). In his parables, Jesus used many illustrations familiar to his
listeners. Perhaps none were as close to home as His mother baking bread
as he grew up in Nazareth. Leaven or yeast in Bible times was usually a
small piece of fermented dough taken from a previous batch used to
make bread.