Devotion Archive
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Devotion for May 8, 2025
“Peter answered Jesus, ‘We have left everything to follow you! What then will there be for us?’” (Matthew 19:27) Read Matthew 19:16–30. If you happen to be called Peter, what a great name you bear! I think we should all be as “Peter”. Not like yourself, if you are a Peter, or like the Peters…
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Devotion for May 7, 2025
“I am suffering here in prison. But I am not ashamed of it, for I know the one in whom I trust, and I am sure that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him until the day of His return.” (2 Timothy 1:12, NLT) When you’ve got something that’s precious to…
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Devotion for May 6, 2025
“Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the Word, and to present her to Himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle, or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.” (Ephesians 5:25-27) I believe in the holy Christian Church,…
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Devotion for May 5, 2025
“Shouldn’t you have had mercy on your fellow servant just as I had on you?” (Matthew 18:33) Read Matthew 18:21–35. A great crowd was gathered around Jesus on a hillside when He taught them many things in what we now know as the Sermon on the Mount. He said, “This then, is how you should…
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Devotion for May 4, 2025
“Your hearts and minds must be made completely new, and you must put on the new self, which is created in God’s likeness and reveals itself in the true life that is upright and holy.” (Ephesians 4:23-24, GNT) From the beginning, God’s plan has been to make you like His Son, Jesus. This is your…
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Devotion for May 3, 2025
“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.” (Mark 12:30) God has created us with the capacity to keep learning until the day we die, which is something we shouldn’t take for granted. The average brain weighs approximately three…
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Devotion for May 2, 2025
“Those who go out weeping, carrying seed to sow, will return with songs of joy, carrying sheaves with them.” (Psalm 126:6) Read Psalm 126. The Saturday readings in this devotional series are always a psalm. These songs cover many themes — repentance and forgiveness, lament, cries for rescue, thanksgiving and wonder at creation. But the…
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Devotion for May 1, 2025
“The Son also became flesh and blood. For only as a human being could He die, and only by dying could He break the power of the devil, who had the power of death. Only in this way could He set free all who have lived their lives as slaves to the fear of dying.”…
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Devotion for April 30, 2025
You know, we talk a lot in the church about love, unity and forgiveness. And rightly so. But there are times when Scripture actually encourages a different response; distance. Romans 16:17 says, “I urge you, brothers and sisters, to watch out for those who cause divisions and put obstacles in your way that are contrary…