Topic:Spur One Another On READ THE SCRIPTURE: HEBREWS 10:19-25 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another — and all the more as you see …
Read More »Devotional by Ray Stedman for December 21- A Burned-Over Place
Topic:A Burned-Over Place READ THE SCRIPTURE: HEBREWS 9:23-28 For Christ did not enter a holy place made with hands, a mere copy of the true one, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us; nor was it that He would offer Himself often, as …
Read More »Devotional by Ray Stedman for December 20- The Need for Death
Topic:The Need for Death READ THE SCRIPTURE: HEBREWS 9:15-22 For this reason He is the mediator of a new covenant, so that, since a death has taken place for the redemption of the transgressions that were committed under the first covenant, those who have been called may receive the promise …
Read More »Devotional by Ray Stedman – Youth Answers Age – A daily devotion for December 19
Topic:Youth Answers Age It is not only the old who are wise, not only the aged who understand what is right. Job 32:9 Commentators seem to differ widely as to what to do with Elihu. Some regard him as a rather brash young man with the cocksure arrogance of youth …
Read More »Devotional by Ray Stedman for December 18- The New Constitution
Topic:The New Constitution READ THE SCRIPTURE: HEBREWS 8:1-13 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws into their minds, and I will write them on their hearts. And I will be their God, …
Read More »Devotional by Ray Stedman – Where Is Wisdom? – A daily devotion for December 17
Topic:Where Is Wisdom? But where can wisdom be found? Where does understanding dwell? Man does not comprehend its worth; it cannot be found in the land of the living. Job 28:12-13 Job points out the elusiveness of wisdom. What is this wisdom Job is talking about? All through this book …
Read More »Devotional by Ray Stedman for December 15- Believing Is Seeing
Topic:Believing Is Seeing READ THE SCRIPTURE: HEBREWS 6:13-20 For when God made the promise to Abraham, since He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself, saying, I will surely bless you and I will surely multiply you. And so, having patiently waited, he obtained the promise. Hebrews …
Read More »Devotional by Ray Stedman for December 14- Conception or Birth?
Topic:Conception or Birth? READ THE SCRIPTURE: HEBREWS 6:1-12 It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit, who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age and who …
Read More »Devotional by Ray Stedman – A Vision Of Faith – A daily devotion for December 13
TopicA Vision Of Faith I know that my Redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand upon the earth. And after my skin has been destroyed yet in my flesh I will see God; I myself will see him with my own eyes — I, and not another. …
Read More »Devotional by Ray Stedman – Worn-out Theology – A daily devotion for December 11
Topic:Worn-out Theology What is man, that he could be pure, or one born of woman, that he could be righteous? If God places no trust in his holy ones, even the heavens are not pure in his eyes, how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks up …
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