Leap of Faith Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. Hebrews 11:1 Hebrews 11:1-8 Today’s Devotional About seven hundred emperor penguins in West Antarctica, only six months old, huddled together at the edge of a towering icy cliff fifty feet …
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Love the Truth They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 2 Thessalonians 2:10 2 Thessalonians 2:7-12 checkout Read:The Power of Divine Timing: Trusting God’s Plan When Life Feels Stuck Christian Perspectives on Homosexuality Today’s Devotional Jack hates school. The lectures on algebra, grammar, and …
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An Answer to Problems . . . Thou shalt love the Lord thy God. . . . Thou shalt love thy neighbor . . . —Matthew 22:37–39 Here is the answer to the world’s problems today—”Thou shalt love the Lord thy God” and “Thou shalt love thy fellowman.” That teaching …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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