Category: Daily Devotions

News Headlines: Young Mother dies … 12 Arrested in Terrorist Raid … City Devastated by Oil Blast … Man accused in Hate Attack … But in contrast, the message of Christmas is Peace On Earth. In fact, the message of the Bible is peace. The word peace, or versions of the word, is used in…

“She [Mary] will give birth to a son, and you are to give Him the name Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins.” (Matthew 1:21) When the angel told Joseph to name the child Jesus it wasn’t just to give Him the name by which He would be called to dinner. It…

Life Shift. Sometimes there are those moments in life when everything just shifts. You’re driving along, and all of a sudden brake lights — and then your front end ends up in the back end of the car in front of you. Life shift. Your teenage daughter sits you down and says she got a…

“4 But when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, 5 to ransom those under the law, so that we might receive adoption. 6 As proof that you are children, God sent the spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying out, ‘Abba, Father!’”…

Isaiah 9:1-7 1 But there will be no more gloom for her who was in anguish. In earlier times He treated the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali with contempt, but later on He will make it glorious, by the way of the sea, on the other side of the Jordan, Galilee of…

Isaiah 11:1-5 1 Then a shoot will spring from the stem of Jesse, And a Branch from his roots will bear fruit. 2 The Spirit of the Lord will rest on Him, The spirit of wisdom and understanding, The spirit of counsel and strength, The spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord. 3…

At Christmas, one of the things that should distinguish a Christ follower is a love that reaches out to the marginalized and the forgotten. Such giving is an act of true worship. For Jesus this is personal. Read the Christmas narrative and remember that the Son of God chose to be born into a family…

“Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but…

“What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is proclaimed, and in that I rejoice.” (Philippians 1:18) Proclamation; this is how the Christmas incarnation of Jesus still remains gifted to the world! Do you marvel at those with seemingly unmovable faith and focus? Paul seems to be an example…