Devotion Archive
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Devotion for April 18, 2025
On this Good Friday, let us remember the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, reflecting on His suffering and death, and finding hope in His resurrection, which is the foundation of our faith. Remembering the Sacrifice:Good Friday is a day to commemorate the crucifixion and death of Jesus Christ, a pivotal event in Christian faith. Reflecting on…
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Devotion for April 17, 2025
“They understood that Jesus was not telling them to guard against the yeast used in bread, but against the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” (Matthew 16:12) Read Matthew 16:1–12. A good purpose of a test is to help us recognize what we know and what we need to learn. Neither seems to be the…
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Devotion for April 16, 2025
“Your eyes are too pure to look on evil; you cannot tolerate wrongdoing.” (Habakkuk 1:13, NIV) In Greek and Roman mythology, all the gods — like Zeus, Jupiter, and Apollo — have human frailties. They get angry. They lust. They’re impatient. They zap people with lightning bolts. They are inconsistent and unreliable. But the real…
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Devotion for April 15, 2025
“‘How many loaves do you have?’ Jesus asked.” (Matthew 15:34a) Read Matthew 15:29–39 Previously in this chapter, there was an intense teaching and training time for the disciples, first regarding what makes a person “unclean”, and then the testing involved with the Canaanite woman. Now Jesus is back near the Sea of Galilee, walking in…
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Devotion for April 14, 2025
“Each one of us needs to look after the good of the people around us, asking ourselves, ‘How can I help?’” (Romans 15:2, MSG) If you’re driving and get a flat tire, and a well-known celebrity drives by, nobody expects them to stop and help you. They’re likely too busy or too important to help…
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Devotion for April 13 ,2025
“But as for me, my feet had almost slipped; I had nearly lost my foothold.” (strong>Psalm 73:2) If you’d met Asaph, who wrote some of the psalms, you’d probably have thought he hadn’t a care in the world. But you’d have been wrong: “I came so close to the edge of the cliff! My feet…
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Devotion for April 12, 2025
“The disciples urged him, ‘Send her away, for she keeps crying out after us.’” (Matthew 15:23b) Read Matthew 15:21–28. Much of Jesus’ ministry happened in the regions of Galilee and beyond, away from Jerusalem in the south. That’s a long way to walk! But it was also a teaching time with His disciples, a time…
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Devotion for April 11, 2025
“Do not rebuke an older man harshly, but exhort him as if he were your father. Treat younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity.” (1 Timothy 5:1-2, NIV) If you follow Jesus, you can’t just care about your own family. You must also care about God’s…
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Devotion for April 10, 2025
“Wealth is worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.” (Proverbs 11:4) Abraham Lincoln said, “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” It’s easier to focus on our talent because, generally speaking, it produces results that are rewarded and celebrated by…