Sunday Devotional: Judges 3:12
And the sons of Israel continued to do evil in the eyes of the Lord, so the Lord strengthened Eglod, king of Moab, against Israel because they did evil in the eyes of the Lord. We’ve seen how Israel so...
View ArticleSunday Devotional: Judges 4:4
Now Deborah, a woman, a prophetess, wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel during that time. Ehud is dead, the Israelites are back to their idolatrous ways, and the Lord has given them over to the...
View ArticleSunday Devotional: Judges 7:2
Then the Lord said to Gideon, “The people which you have are [too] many for Me to put Midian in their hand, lest Israel glorify themselves over me saying, “My hand has saved me!” Judges 6 opens with...
View ArticleSunday Devotional: Matthew 1:21
And she will give birth to a son, and you shall call his name Jesus; for he himself will save his people from their sins. If you’re familiar with the Christmas story, you know the background to this...
View ArticleSunday Devotional: Luke 5:8
And when Simon Peter saw [this], he fell down on [his] knees before Jesus saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord.” Jesus’ reputation is spreading. He had just healed Simon Peter’s...
View ArticleSunday Devotional: 1 Corinthians 15:14, 17
14 And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is empty and your faith is empty… 17 And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile–you are yet in your sins. As Christians the world...
View ArticleSunday Devotional: 1 Corinthians 9:27
But I keep my body under control and bring it into subjection, lest somehow having preached to others I myself may be disqualified. In this section of his first letter to the church in Corinth, Paul is...
View ArticleSunday Devotional: John 1:14a
14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us John’s Gospel doesn’t give an account of Jesus’s birth like the accounts in Matthew and Luke. Indeed, the opening verses of John’s Gospel are very...
View ArticleSunday Devotional: John 11:25-26
25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me, even though he may die, he shall live, 26 and all those living and believing in me shall never die. Do you believe...
View ArticleSunday Devotional: Ephesians 5:15-17
Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. (ESV)...
View ArticleSunday Devotional: Luke 2:10
And the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid, for I proclaim good news to you, a great joy which is to be for all the people.” The night that Jesus was born, some shepherds in a nearby field were...
View ArticleSunday Devotional: Revelation 6:7-8
7 And when he opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, “Come!” 8 And I saw, and behold a pale horse, the one sitting upon it was named Death, and Hades was...
View ArticleSunday Devotional: Proverbs 16:4
Yahweh has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of evil. We live in a fallen world. Evidence of that fall surrounds us daily, from war and famine to disease and suffering. Even...
View ArticleSunday Devotional: James 3:1-5
1 Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. 2 For we all stumble in many ways, and if anyone does not stumble in what...
View ArticleSunday Devotional: 1 John 3:7-10
7 Little children, let no one lead you astray. The one doing righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous. 8 The one doing sin is from the Devil, for the Devil has been sinning from the...
View ArticleSunday Devotional: Matthew 6:33
But seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be given in addition to you. This is one of the most popular and often-memorized verses of the New Testament. In...
View ArticleSunday Devotional: Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The very first verse of the Bible is another one of those well-known Bible verses that we don’t often stop to reflect upon, and yet, as with the...
View ArticleSunday Devotional: James 1:2-4
2 Consider [it] all joy, my brethren, whenever you encounter various kinds of trials, 3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. 4 And let steadfastness complete its work, so...
View ArticleSunday Devotional: Matthew 2:1-6
1 Now when Jesus had been born in Bethlehem of Judea, in the days of King Herod, behold magi from the east arrived in Jerusalem 2 saying, “Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we saw...
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