Category: Daily Devotions

“Welcome those who are weak in faith but not for the purpose of quarrelling over opinions.” (Romans 14:1) Read Romans 14:1–12. We often long for unity in our churches but frequently mistake unity for uniformity. We assume that if everyone believed the same things, behaved the same way, or worshipped with the same preferences, harmony…

“Owe no-one anything, except to love one another, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.” (Romans 13:8) Read Romans 13:8–14. You don’t owe God a thing because Jesus has already paid it all. The law has been fulfilled, the debt erased, and your identity sealed in grace. There is nothing left to…

“Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed. His mercies are new every morning.” (Lamentations 3:22) Around 600 years before the birth of Christ, there lived a Greek slave who told stories with a point. His name was Aesop, and you’ve likely heard of Aesop’s Fables. One story commonly attributed to him is…

“Someone may say, ‘I am allowed to do anything,’ but not everything is helpful.” (1 Corinthians 6:12, GW) Successful people know what matters, and they don’t waste time worrying about what doesn’t matter. The apostle Paul said, “I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, I press…

“God saw all that He had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning — the sixth day.” (Genesis 1:31) The first reaction recorded in Scripture is God’s reaction to His own creation. He stepped back at the end of each day, looked at what He had made, and…

“For we fix our attention, not on things that are seen, but on things that are unseen. What can be seen lasts only for a time, but what cannot be seen lasts forever.” (2 Corinthians 4:18, GNT) Most people rarely evaluate their values or question their perceptions until they have a crisis. It’s often in…

“Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God.” (Romans 13:1) Read Romans 13:1–7. In today’s reading, Christians are encouraged to see their governing authorities as part of God’s care for God’s people. I don’t think…

“The human mind is the most deceitful of all things. It is incurable. No one can understand how deceitful it is.” (Jeremiah 17:9, GW) One fundamental question in life stands above all others: What will have the final authority in your life? Will it be your parents? Or your peers? Maybe your friends or your…

“Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is — His good, pleasing and perfect will.” (Romans 12:2) Read Romans 12:1–8. Romans 12:2 is one of my best-loved Bible texts. It asks us…