Hope Renewed Encourage the disheartened, help the weak, be patient with everyone. 1 Thessalonians 5:14 1 Thessalonians 5:4-15 Today’s Devotional Thia was puzzled. Why was his eighteen-year-old son spending so much time in the library these days? His son, who was autistic and rarely spoke to anyone, would usually return …
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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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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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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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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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. . . 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 …
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Better Together One can help the other up. Ecclesiastes 4:10 Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 Look up; Faith-Based New Year Resolutions: Drawing Closer to God in 2025 Read:The Power of Divine Timing: Trusting God’s Plan When Life Feels Stuck Today’s Devotional Meggie’s ten years of drug use kept her in and out of …
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Following God In all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight. Proverbs 3:6 Proverbs 3:1-8 Today’s Insights The book of Proverbs is presented as a life manual from a father to his sons (see 1:8; 3:1; 4:1; 23:15; 31:2) to teach them how to live …
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The Son of God The beginning of the good news about Jesus the Messiah, the Son of God. Mark 1:1 Mark 1:1-8 Today’s Insights Mark begins his gospel account declaring that Jesus is “the Son of God” (1:1). Then he moves to introducing the Messiah’s promised forerunner, John the Baptist …
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