Topic:A Great Work READ THE SCRIPTURE: NEHEMIAH 6:1-9 I am carrying on a great project and cannot go down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and go down to you? Nehemiah 6:3b These erstwhile enemies suddenly become Nehemiah’s friends and invite him to a conference down on the plain of Ono. It is located down on the …
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Topic:The Perils Of Popularity A daily devotion for January 6th Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the lake, and a large crowd from Galilee followed. When they heard all he was doing, many people came to him from Judea, Jerusalem, Idumea, and the regions across the Jordan and around Tyre and Sidon. Mark 3:7-8 We have difficulty grasping the size …
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Topic:Warning, Warning! A DAILY DEVOTION FOR DECEMBER 9TH READ THE SCRIPTURE: HEBREWS 3:7-15 See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness. We have …
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Topic:God’s House A DAILY DEVOTION FOR DECEMBER 8TH READ THE SCRIPTURE: HEBREWS 3:1-6 Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s house, bearing witness to what would be spoken by God in the future. But Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And we are his house, if indeed we hold firmly to our confidence and the …
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Topic:Perfect Through Suffering A DAILY DEVOTION FOR DECEMBER 7TH READ THE SCRIPTURE: HEBREWS 2:10-18 In bringing many sons and daughters to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through what he suffered. Hebrews 2:10 The earthly life of Jesus is referred to in one phrase, perfect …
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Topic:Pay Careful Attention! A DAILY DEVOTION FOR DECEMBER 5TH READ THE SCRIPTURE: HEBREWS 2:1-2 We must pay the most careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away. For since the message spoken through angels was binding, and every violation and disobedience received its just punishment, how shall we escape if we ignore so …
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Topic:A Son or a Servant A DAILY DEVOTION FOR DECEMBER 4TH READ THE SCRIPTURE: HEBREWS 1:5-14 For to which of the angels did God ever say, You are my Son; today I have become your Father? Or again, I will be his Father, and he will be my Son? Hebrews 1:5 The writer of Hebrews is now comparing Jesus with …
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Topic:He Holds All Things Together A DAILY DEVOTION FOR DECEMBER 2ND READ THE SCRIPTURE: HEBREWS 1:1-4 The Son is the gleaming brightness of God’s glory. He is the exact likeness of God’s being. He uses his powerful word to hold all things together. Hebrews 1:3a That is an amazing statement. It is put in the present tense, saying that he …
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Topic:God’s Final Word A DAILY DEVOTION FOR DECEMBER 1ST READ THE SCRIPTURE: HEBREWS 1:1-4 In the past, God spoke to our people through the prophets. He spoke at many times. He spoke in different ways. But in these last days, he has spoken to us through his Son. He is the one whom God appointed to receive all things. God …
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Topic:Paul’s Friends A DAILY DEVOTION FOR NOVEMBER 29TH READ THE SCRIPTURE: ROMANS 16:21-24 Timothy, my fellow worker, sends his greetings to you, as do Lucius, Jason and Sosipater, my relatives. I, Tertius, who wrote down this letter, greet you in the Lord. Gaius, whose hospitality I and the whole church here enjoy, sends you his greetings. Erastus, who is the …
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