Category: Daily Devotions

“But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.” (Genesis 19:26) Before destroying Sodom and Gomorrah, angels of the Lord rescued Lot and his family. “When they had brought them outside … he said, ‘Escape for your life! Do not look behind you nor stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the…

“Day after day Saul searched for him, but God did not give David into his hands.” (1 Samuel 23:14) After God rejected Saul as the king over Israel because of his disobedience (1 Samuel 15:11), God had Samuel anoint David to be the next king (1 Samuel 16). Even so, Saul remained king for a…

“Take your son, your only son, whom you love — Isaac — and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you.” (Genesis 22:2) God tells Abraham to sacrifice his beloved son. Why would God ask such a thing? If I were Abraham, I…

“Listen! Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground.” (Genesis 4:10) Abel was the first person to be killed in human history, and his brother, Cain, was the first murderer. How did Cain come to do such a terrible thing? Cain was jealous and angry because God did not look with favor on…

“Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds …” (James 1:2) When difficulties come to us in life and in our relationships, as they inevitably will, it’s easy to succumb to the “dominoes of despair”. First, we become disappointed with an event or relationship. Then as the trial lingers, we…

“I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one.” (John 17:22) Our Bible reading today is from a beautiful prayer that Jesus offered just before he was arrested and crucified. This is the longest prayer of Jesus that is recorded in the Bible. It also…

“Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up.” (Luke 18:1) The widow in this parable has been called many things: troublesome, annoying, irritating, irksome, pesky. Yet Jesus applauds her for being persistent. Her relentless pursuit of justice eventually convinces the judge to help her, even…

“The day of the Lord will come like a thief … and the earth and its works will be burned up. Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way, what sort of people ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness” (2 Peter 3:10-12). In our economy today it is very…

“Yours, Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the majesty and the splendor, for everything in heaven and earth is yours.” (1 Chronicles 29:11) From the earliest days of the church, Christians have ended the Lord’s Prayer with the words “For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory…