Where Honor Is Due (Day 2) When David finished saying this, Saul asked, “Is that your voice, David my son?” And he wept aloud. “You are more righteous than I,” he said. “You have treated me well, but I have treated you badly. You have just now told me about the good you did to me; the Lord delivered me into your […]
Where Honor Is Due (Day 1) In fact, some parts of the body that seem weakest and least important are actually the most necessary. And the parts we regard as less honorable are those we clothe with the greatest care. So we carefully protect those parts that should not be seen, while the more honorable […]
Tatters Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful. ––Joshua 1:8 Practice these things, immerse yourself in them, so that all may see your progress. ––1 […]
Deep Roots, Better Fruit Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces […]
Social Mania And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit. ––2 Corinthians 3:18 Nearly 2,400 years ago Plato described a phenomena that is becoming increasingly true in our Digital Age. In “The Allegory […]
Thank you to those who let us know…the October 1st and October 2nd Devotionals were the same! Here is the October 1st Devotional that was missing! Arc of the Ark Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many; and […]
How God Can Use Brokenness My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart you, God, will not despise. ––Psalm 51:17 Joseph was dealt a poor hand, right? I mean, first his brothers throw him in a pit and leave him for dead. Then he’s enslaved by traders who […]
Fruit That Remains The next day as they were leaving Bethany, Jesus was hungry. Seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to find out if it had any fruit. When he reached it, he found nothing but leaves, because it was not the season for figs. Then he said to the tree, “May […]
Between the Seed and the Fruit I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are […]
The Destiny Question For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. ––Ephesians 2:10 L’enfer est plein de bonnes volontés ou désirs. (Hell is full of good intentions and wills). ––Bernard of Clairvaux, 1150 When was the last time […]
