God Made Us Unique Our soul waiteth for the Lord . . . —Psalm 33:20 I am a soul—and I have a body! The body is the house in which the soul lives. When Oliver Wendell Holmes was in his 80th year, a friend hailed him and asked, “How are …

Love Worthy of Our Life Whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it. Matthew 16:25 Matthew 16:21-28 Today’s Devotional William Temple, a twentieth-century English bishop, once concluded a sermon to Oxford students with the words of the hymn “When …

Silence the Critics For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men. 1 Peter 2:15 I know from personal experience that when people start to criticize you and persecute you because you live by faith, your natural human …

Jesus Is Transcendent Come to Christ, who is the living Foundation of Rock upon which God builds; though men have spurned him, he is very precious to God who has chosen him above all others. —1 Peter 2:4 (TLB) No personality in history stands above Jesus Christ. Agnostics and atheists …

Loving the Stranger Do not oppress a foreigner; you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners. Exodus 23:9 Leviticus 19:9-10, 33-34 Today’s Scripture Leviticus 19:9-10, 33-34 Today’s Devotional A friend’s wife, a master seamstress, made a loving plan before she passed away from a long illness. She donated all …

Don’t Waste Time Wondering Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is. Ephesians 5:17 Sometimes, believers wring their hands and worry about whether or not they’re praying according to God’s will. “Oh, dear me,” they say, “I certainly can’t expect God to do something …

Today’s Scripture Isaiah 41:10-13 Today’s Devotional In the aftermath of Turkey’s devastating earthquake in February 2023, a haunting photo came across newswires: a father sitting amid ruins holding a hand extending from the rubble—the hand of his daughter. We see the edge of the mattress where his daughter had been …

Free From the Curse Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree. Galatians 3:13 You know the story. Satan came to Adam’s wife in the form of a serpent …

. . . greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. —1 John 4:4 Paul once wrote, “For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary the one to the other; so that ye can not …

. . . serving the Lord; rejoicing in hope . . . —Romans 12:11,12 Each generation becomes more addicted to the sedatives of life, to dull the pain of living. Oppressed by a sense of triviality and thwarted purpose, men find no great goal or commitment to draw them, and …