Category: Daily Devotions

“But Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, ‘Look, Lord! Here and now I give half of my possessions to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody out of anything, I will pay back four times the amount.’” (Luke 19:8) Zacchaeus got rich by taking more taxes from people than his Roman masters…

“Indeed, we felt we had received the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead.” (2 Corinthians 1:9) The apostle Paul and his missionary companions experienced many hardships in their travels. For example, Paul writes in 2 Corinthians 1, “We were under great…

“Do not swerve to the right or the left; keep your foot from evil.” (Proverbs 4:27) Many of us fail, not because we aren’t talented, determined, or passionate, but because we get “sidetracked”. God told the prophet Habakkuk, “Write the vision and make it plain on tablets, that he may run who reads it” (Habakkuk…

“This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.” (1 John 5:14) Sometimes we pray “Just” prayers. We say, “Lord, we just ask you to protect us, or provide for us … If you’d just help us in this situation, we’d be so…

“‘This son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’ So they began to celebrate.” (Luke 15:24) Jesus taught about the kingdom of God with many parables. In this story about a lost son, we learn some important things about God’s love. A man had two sons, and the…

“Since … you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God … not on earthly things.” (Colossians 3:1-2) Several years ago someone made the comment that too many Christians are living on the wrong side of Easter. Too many Christians, he said,…

“As Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.” (Romans 6:4 ) As a Pastor I have had the privilege of meeting people whose life has been turned right side up after long suffering and struggle. They have experienced liberation from addictions. They have…

John 20:1-16 (The Message) Early in the morning on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone was moved away from the entrance. She ran at once to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, gasping for breath.…

Apostles’ Creed (after being entombed) “He descended into hell” “For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God. He was put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit, in which he also went and made proclamation to the spirits…