The Living Word: A Daily Devotional with Jeff & Dale from The Jenkins Institute

Jeff & Dale Jenkins
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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.

  1. 2D AGO

    Week 18: Friday, Wasted Opportunities

    During my freshman year of college, my great-uncle drove thirteen hours to meet with me and encourage me to become a minister like him. Thanks to a music scholarship, I was blessed to attend a university well- equipped to instruct students in ministry, though I had not yet chosen to pursue ministry myself. I enjoyed our meal together in Searcy, AR, but I was afraid of leading, so I told him, “No, thank you.” Not long after, he passed away. I never got to tell him, “Thank you.”

    3 min

  2. 3D AGO

    Week 18: Thursday, My Talent Isn’t Your Talent

    My mother was diagnosed with polio when she was five months old. She’s never walked straight or ran. We could admit she wasn’t blessed physically with what others had, yet she has doubled it with her spiritual influence. We often forgot about her physical limitations because she doubled what she had by her zeal and thirst for the Lord. It had nothing to do with how “talented” she was, but what she did with what she was

    3 min

  3. 4D AGO

    Week 18: Wednesday, Ten Talent Christians

    The age we live in has more free and abundant access to Bibles, devotionals, commentaries, podcasts, and other resources than ever in the history of the world. The availability of it all places tremendous responsibility on Christians. The five-talent man was actually a ten-talent man. He decided to double and use what he was given by the Master, stewarding it wisely. He received praise and reward from the Master for his decision, and note that he did this “at once” (Matthew 25:16).

    3 min

  4. 5D AGO

    Week 18: Tuesday, His Departure and His Return

    Shout for joy, we live and breathe between our Master’s departure and His return! The parable of the ten virgins was about preparation for the bridegroom, and this parable challenges us not to sit on our hands while we wait for the Master. Jesus left this earth in Acts 1:9-11, and before leaving, He gave His disciples authority, gifts, and a commission. They also were entrusted with talents, and though His absence would be hard to fathom, He gave them great comfort and responsibility (John 14). Much like us, they wouldn’t survive without instruction, love, gifts, comfort, and power.

    3 min

  5. 6D AGO

    Week 18: Monday, So Grateful Everyone Received Something

    Today, we are reminded of the words of Jesus in Matthew 25. He reminds us that God distributes gifts with expectations along with them. The parable of the talents in Matthew 25 and the parable of the ten minas in Luke 19:11-27 supplement one another and emphasize that our Master has expectations. Every servant received sums entrusted to them, and the Master (or Nobleman) communicated expectations alongside those talents.

    3 min

  6. MAY 1

    Week 17: Friday, Watch

    Regardless of the reason, we’ve all experienced drowsiness. In the US, we live in a caffeine-dependent culture. Many of us spend our days feeling more like zombies than functioning human beings. Some of us can also slip into laziness and complacency, while allowing ourselves to feel lethargic and drained too often. Could this affect us spiritually? It seems so…

    3 min

  7. APR 30

    Week 17: Thursday, Shut

    Can you hear them? They’re troubling, and often terrifying words: “I’m too late.” “You’re too late.” “Too late.” Too late to help someone. Too late to see a dying loved one. Too late to catch your friend before they leave town. Too late to mend a broken relationship. Just…too late.

    3 min

  8. APR 28

    Week 17: Wednesday, Personal

    The five sensible virgins brought spare oil with them in flasks, but the other five foolishly neglected to bring enough. They were caught with their lamps running out of oil at the very moment they needed it most, at the arrival of the bridegroom!

    3 min
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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.

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