10/11/2022 Daily Devotion – Who is Jesus?
“As Christians we need to be confident about who this Jesus was and is. He is more than a great prophet. He is who all prophets point to.”
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10/10/2022 Daily Devotion – He fulfilled it all!
“Jesus inaugurated the beginning of His ministry by reading this beautiful text from Isaiah 61 and telling the crowd that the fulfillment of the text begins now.”
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10/09/2022 Daily Devotion – The devil can try but the Spirit overcomes!
“We need to be wise about the enemy’s strategy. He will always begin by testing the truth and see if we will move off center.”
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10/08/2022 Daily Devotion – A charity-loaded resume and an impressive pedigree are useless when it comes to God’s kingdom!
“Produce fruit in keeping with repentance. And do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.” (Luke 3:8, NIV84) An inherent problem with God’s people is their persistence in seeing their inclusion in the kingdom…
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10/07/2022 Daily Devotion – Repentance is not a once and done thing!
“In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar — when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of Iturea and Traconitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene — during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John son of Zechariah in…
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10/06/2022 Daily Devotion – Let God work through you on the rough road ahead!
As is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet: “A voice of one calling in the desert, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for him. Every valley shall be filled in, every mountain and hill made low. The crooked roads shall become straight, the rough ways smooth. And…
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10/05/22 Daily Devotion – God provides hope in the misery of this life!
“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” (John 16:33, NIV84) Today, I take a break from the devotional study on the Gospel of Luke to address what’s heavy on my heart and mind…
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10/04/22 Daily Devotion – What do we learn from Jesus’ talk with his parents?
“Everyone who heard him was amazed at his understanding and his answers. When his parents saw him, they were astonished. His mother said to him, ‘Son, why have you treated us like this? Your father and I have been anxiously searching for you.’ ‘Why were you searching for me?’ he asked. ‘Didn’t you know I…
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10/03/22Daily Devotion – What was Jesus like? The embodiment of love
“And the child grew and became strong; he was filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon him.” (Luke 2:40, NIV84) As Luke did the research for his Gospel, who did he go to to get tidbit information like this? We know virtually nothing about Jesus’ childhood. The Scriptures and even external sources…
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10/2/22 Daily Devotion – Faith doesn’t need proof after proof!
“Moved by the Spirit, he went into the temple courts. When the parents brought in the child Jesus to do for him what the custom of the Law required, Simeon took him in his arms and praised God, saying: ‘Sovereign Lord, as you have promised, you now dismiss your servant in peace. For my eyes…