Devotion Archive
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Devotion for April 1, 2024
April Fool’s Day! The day after Easter this year. Guess who got fooled? Yup, Satan. Jesus is Risen! He is Risen Indeed! Hallelujah! Proverbs has a lot to say about wisdom, and it also has a lot to say about foolishness. See if anything on this list surprises you: Many people celebrate this as April…
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Devotion for March 31, 2024
“Don’t be alarmed,” he said. “You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has risen! He is not here.” (Mark 16:6) After the 7 words of Jesus on the cross finishing the work of salvation, we hear the 8th word … “HE HAS RISEN”! Sometimes we might wonder if the Easter story…
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Devotion for March 30, 2024
Holy Saturday Thoughts from Max Lucado 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 much on Friday. He will liberate the slaves of death on Sunday. But on Saturday, Jesus is…
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Devotion for March 29, 2024
“I have a few things against you … Repent therefore!” (Revelation 2:14-16) Many of the Christians in Pergamum remained true to Jesus. That would not have been easy. An altar to Zeus stood near the tip of the city’s mountaintop, in the shadow of a temple built by the emperor Trajan. Below stood a “healing…
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Devotion for March 28, 2024
“There is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus.” (Romans 8:1, NLT) Do you get it right all the time? Of course you don’t! None of us do. None of us is perfect. There is a lot of pressure in our society to have it all together, to be successful in every endeavor,…
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Devotion for March 27, 2024
“I love God’s law with all my heart. But there is another power within me that is at war with my mind. This power makes me a slave to the sin that is still within me.” (Romans 7:22-23, NLT) You have a war inside of you that will rage for your entire life between who…
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Devotion for March 26, 2024
“Paul devoted himself … to preaching, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Messiah. But when they … became abusive, he … said … ‘From now on I will go to the Gentiles.’” (Acts 18:5-6) The apostle Paul had become God’s “chosen instrument to proclaim [Jesus’] name to the Gentiles and their kings and…
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Devotion for March 25, 2024
“If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.” (1 John 1:8, NIV) We lie to ourselves all the time: “I haven’t gained any weight.” “I’m not hurting anyone.” “No one even noticed.” But one lie is more dangerous than most: “It’s not really a problem.” We…
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Devotion for March 24, 2024
“To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.” (Revelation 2:7) To live in Ephesus meant being surrounded by the worship of false gods. The temple to Artemis was one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. The…