Topic:How To Walk As He Walked A daily devotion for May 5th Read the Scripture: 1 John 2:3-6 By this we may be sure that we are in him: he who says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked. (1 John 2:5b-6 RSV) This phrase, abides in him, means exactly the same …
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Topic:The Person Who Rationalizes Sin A daily devotion for May 4th Read the Scripture: 1 John 1:10-2:2 My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have one who speaks to the Father in our defense — Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. He is the atoning sacrifice for our …
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Topic:The Person Who Denies Sin A daily devotion for May 3rd Read the Scripture: 1 John 1:8-9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. (1 John 1:9) The word confess does not mean to ask for forgiveness. Christ’s work for us upon the cross has …
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Topic:Ignoring The Light A daily devotion for May 2nd Read the Scripture: 1 John 1:3-7 If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth. (1 John 1:6) What is the problem presented in this verse? Here are Christians who have established a relationship with God; they have …
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Topic:Life With Father A daily devotion for May 1st Read the Scripture: 1 John 1:1-4 We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ. (1 John 1:3) Why is it that some Christians seem to be transformed …
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Topic:Vows A daily devotion for April 30th Read the Scripture: Leviticus 27 The Lord said to Moses, Speak to the Israelites and say to them: If anyone makes a special vow to dedicate a person to the Lord by giving the equivalent value, set the value of a male between the ages of twenty and sixty at fifty shekels of …
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Topic:Blessed Promises A daily devotion for April 29th Read the Scripture: Leviticus 26 If you follow my decrees and are careful to obey my commands, I will send you rain in its season, and the ground will yield its crops and the trees their fruit. Lev 26:3-4 What a beautiful passage! What a beautiful array of promises. When he asked …
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Topic:The True Basis for Social Concern A daily devotion for April 28th Read the Scripture: Leviticus 25 Throughout the land that you hold as a possession, you must provide for the redemption of the land. If one of your fellow Israelites becomes poor and sells some of their property, their nearest relative is to come and redeem what they have …
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Topic:The Pattern of Man A daily devotion for April 27th Read the Scripture: Leviticus 24 Now the son of an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father went out among the Israelites, and a fight broke out in the camp between him and an Israelite. Lev 24:10 Here is a story of a young man who was half Egyptian and half …
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Topic:No Leaven A daily devotion for April 26th Read the Scripture: Leviticus 23:4-44 On the fifteenth day of that month the Lord’s Festival of Unleavened Bread begins; for seven days you must eat bread made without yeast. Lev 23:6 Linked with the Passover was the Feast of Unleavened Bread. It began on the fifteenth day, lasted seven days, then …
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