Topics: Grace Grace and Peace By Billy Graham August 28 Unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. —Ephesians 4:7 The Christian life is never spoken of in the Bible as a bed of roses. It is uphill, because society is …
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Topics: Pride, Suffering The Secret of Surrender By Billy Graham August 27 Just as you used to be slaves to all kinds of sin, so now you must let yourselves be slaves to all that is right and holy. —Romans 6:19 (TLB) We have heard the modern expression, “Don’t fight …
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Topics: Christianity, Hope Unspeakable Joy By Billy Graham August 26 And the disciples were called Christians . . . —Acts 11:26 In the third century Cyprian, the Bishop of Carthage, wrote to his friend Donatus, “It is a bad world, Donatus, an incredibly bad world. But I have discovered in …
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Topics: Marriage The Purity of Marriage By Billy Graham August 25 Bride and groom holding hands in front of sunset Whatsoever things are pure . . . think on these things. —Philippians 4:8 Nowhere does the Bible teach that sex in itself is a sin. Man in his sinful nature …
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Topics: Sin Root of Sin By Billy Graham August 24 Overwhelming victory is ours through Christ who loved us enough to die for us. —Romans 8:37 (TLB) The basic problem facing our world is not just social inequity, or lack of education, or even physical hunger. We are finding that …
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Topic: We Must Decrease [Billy Graham Devotional 23 August 2019] Click HERE for Previous Devotional Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord. — Lamentations 3:40 Our modern philosophy of self-reliance and self-sufficiency has caused many to believe that we can make the grade without God. “Religion,” they …
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Topics: Pride We Must Decrease By Billy Graham August 23 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord. —Lamentations 3:40 Our modern philosophy of self-reliance and self-sufficiency has caused many to believe that we can make the grade without God. “Religion,” they argue, “may be …
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Topic: God Provides [Billy Graham Devotional 22 August 2019] For we know that when this tent we live in now is taken down-when we die and leave these bodies-we will have wonderful new bodies in heaven, homes that will be ours forevermore, made for us by God himself, and not by human …
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Topics: Lifestyle Three Kinds of Pleasure By Billy Graham August 20 The disciples were filled with joy, and with the Holy Ghost. —Acts 13:52 The Bible speaks of three kinds of pleasure. There is lustful pleasure, the lust of the flesh, and Scripture says it is sinful and wrong. There …
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Topics: Worry Be Not Anxious By Billy Graham August 19 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. —Colossians 3:16 Christians are to rejoice. To …
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