Devotion Archive
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Devotion for April 22, 2022
“I will sing to the LORD, for he is highly exalted. Both horse and driver he has hurled into the sea. The LORD is my strength and my defense; he has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise him.” (Exodus 15:1-2) We like to remember the “good old days” when life…
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Devotion for April 21, 2022
“I am the Lord, and there is no other; besides me there is no god. I arm you, though you do not know me.” (Isaiah 45:5) Oh no! Petrol prices are enormous. House prices are beyond saving for. Food prices are restrictive. Seas are rising. Cattle are causing too much carbon. It’s too dry. We’ve…
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Devotion for April 20, 2022
“Therefore the Jews started complaining about Him because He said, ‘I am the bread that came down from heaven.’” (John 6:41) Something about a whiny, sing-songy voice protesting and demanding its own way that can unnerve a person. When my children were little and would start the “Mom pleeease” whine, I’d calmly smile and say…
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Devotion for April 19, 2022
“And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins.” (1 Corinthians 15:17) In 2013, Fox News reported that an exercise in a university course textbook involved instructing students to write the name Jesus on a sheet of paper, put the paper on the floor, and stomp on…
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Devotion for April 18, 2022
“Then He said to Thomas, ‘Put your finger here; see My hands. Reach out your hand and put it into My side. Stop doubting and believe.’” (John 20:27) The Bible says: “Now Thomas … one of the twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him, “We have seen…
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Devotion for April 17, 2022
“But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.” (1 Corinthians 15:57) Jesus promised what no other religious leader could: that He’d return from the dead, and also resurrect His followers from the grave. And He has already made a good-faith deposit on that promise. When He died, “……
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Devotion for April 16, 2022
Jesus is silent on Saturday. The women have anointed his body and placed it in Joseph’s tomb. The cadaver of Christ is as mute as the stone which guards it. He spoke many words on our behalf on Friday, the greatest of which is “It is finished”. He will liberate the slaves of death on…
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Devotion for April 15, 2022
“Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.” (Colossians 4:6) If you habitually put your foot in your mouth, there’s a scriptural remedy. “Let your conversation be gracious and attractive so that you will have the right response for everyone” (v. 6). Notice…
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Devotion for April 14, 2022
“But Christ, as the Son, is in charge of God’s entire house. And we are God’s house, if we keep our courage and remain confident in our hope in Christ.” (Hebrews 3:6) Read Hebrews 3:1–8 The Bible provides many word pictures of the relationship between God and his people: Parents and children; groom and bride; ruler…