Sunday Devotional: Proverbs 3:6
In all your ways acknowledge Him and He Himself will make straight your paths. I thought I would continue on from last week’s verse, since this is such a good passage to meditate upon. Last week,...
View ArticleSunday Devotional: Proverbs 3:7
Don’t be wise in your eyes; fear the Lord and turn from evil. Continuing our look at this famous section of Proverbs 3. There is a connection, at least in meaning, between this verse and verse...
View ArticleSunday Devotional: Proverbs 3:8
This will be healing to your body and refreshment to your bones. Last week we discussed Proverbs 3:7, and the need to fear the Lord and turn from evil. Verse 8 appears to suggest that a benefit of...
View ArticleSunday Devotional: Romans 12:2
And do not conform yourselves to this age, but be transformed by the renewal of the mind so you may prove what is the holy and well-pleasing and perfect will of God. Those who follow this blog may note...
View ArticleSunday Devotional: Colossians 3:1
If, therefore, you have been raised with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ is, sitting at the right [hand] of God. This passage comes as part of Paul’s exhortation to the Colossian church to...
View ArticleSunday Devotional: Psalm 8:3-4*
3 When I see Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars which You have established–4 What is mankind that You remember him, or the son of man that You seek him out? This week in...
View ArticleSunday Devotional: Psalm 16:11
You have made known to me the way of life; fullness of joy is in Your presence. Delights [are] in Your right hand forever. This is not an easy psalm to translate, though I think the main themes are...
View ArticleSunday Devotional: Psalm 23:4
… Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me. Psalm 23 is, perhaps, one of the best-known passages in Scripture, and, like many familiar texts, we often pass over beautiful nuggets of truth because we’ve...
View ArticleSunday Devotional: Psalm 51:4(6)
Against You, You alone, have I sinned, and committed evil in Your sight; So You are just when You speak, You are pure in Your judgment. Psalm 51 is David’s song of confession and repentance after...
View ArticleSunday Devotional: 1 Corinthians 15:3-4
3 For among the first things I passed on to you [was] that which I also received, that Christ died on behalf of our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 and that he was buried, and that he was raised on...
View ArticleSunday Devotional: Matthew 5:13
You yourselves are the salt of the earth; but if the salt becomes tasteless, in what way will it be made salty? It is valid for nothing anymore except having been cast out to be trampled on by men. In...
View ArticleSunday Devotional: Psalm 40:4(5)
Blessed [is] the man who places his confidence in the Lord and has not turned toward the arrogant or those having fallen away to lies. This psalm of David expresses both thanksgiving and assurance....
View ArticleSunday Devotional: Psalm 42:1-2 (2-3)
1 As the deer longs for streams of water, so my soul longs for you, O God; 2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God; when shall I come, and appear before God? Psalms 42 and 43 go together to form...
View ArticleSunday Devotional: Psalm 46:10-11 (11-12)
10 Stop, and know that I am God; I will be exalted in the nations, I will be exalted in the earth. 11 The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is a refuge to us. Psalm 46 is quite a powerful...
View ArticleSunday Devotional: Psalm 67:1-2 (2-3)
1 God be gracious to us, and bless us; His face shine among us. 2 That Your way be known on the earth; Your salvation among all the nations. Psalm 67 appears to be an anonymous song of blessing and...
View ArticleSunday Devotional: Psalm 84:10 (11)
For better is a day in Your courts than a thousand [elsewhere]; I prefer standing at the threshold in the house of my God more than dwelling in the tents of the wicked. Psalm 84 is a song of longing...
View ArticleSunday Devotional: Psalm 88:1-2 (2-3)
1 O Lord, God of my salvation, I have cried out by day, [and] in the night in Your presence. 2 Let my prayer go before You; incline Your ear to my cry. Psalm 88 has been characterized as the saddest...
View ArticleSunday Devotional: Psalm 92:1-2 (2-3)
1 It is good to give praise to the Lord and to make music to Your name, Most High; 2 To proclaim Your loving-kindness in the morning, and Your faithfulness in the night. Psalm 92 is a song of praise...
View ArticleSunday Devotional: Psalm 95:6-7
6 Come, let us prostrate ourselves and bow; let us kneel in the presence of the Lord who made us. 7 For He is our God and we are the people of His pasture, and the flock of His hand. Psalm 95 is a...
View ArticleSunday Devotional: Psalm 100:2
Serve the Lord with gladness; come before Him with rejoicing. Psalm 100 is a sort of sister-psalm to Psalm 95, which we looked at last week. It too is a call to worship, an exhortation to come before...
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