“love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.” (1Cor. 13:7 NASB) Today I used the NASB translation because it is a truer translation of the original Greek. This verse comes from Paul’s famous love chapter. This section is read at most wedding services around the world. Paul was winding down […]
04/29/22 Daily Devotion – Hope in the midst of suffering!
“Though he slay me, yet will I hope in him; I will surely defend my ways to his face.” — Job 13:15 (NIV84) The book of Job is difficult to get a full grasp of God allowed the suffering of one of His faithful children so that His will might be done, and He might be […]
04/25/22 Daily Devotion – How can we know we are living in God’s truth?
“Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth. This then is how we know that we belong to the truth, and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence whenever our hearts condemn us. For God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.” — […]
04/24/22 Daily Devotion – Relative truth leads to hypocrisy!
“The man who says, ‘I know him,’ but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in him.” (1 John 2:4, NIV84) Hypocrisy is not an option with biblical truth. The expectation is that when we have adopted God’s spiritual truths we will strive to live out those truths in […]
04/16/22 Daily Devotion – Why people perish!
“…and in every sort of evil that deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.” (2 Thessalonians 2:10, NIV84) “They refused to love the truth and so be saved.” Once again we are faced with the fact that understanding truth is more than cognitive assent. Paul […]
04/14/22 Daily Devotion – Speak the truth in love in your life!
“Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ.” (Ephesians 4:15, NIV84) Again we look at the connectedness between truth and love. Paul says that he is committed to speaking the truth in love. Truth alone is a point waiting for a counterpoint. […]
02/23/22 Daily Devotion – God’s love for you is unfailing!
“May your unfailing love be my comfort, according to your promise to your servant.” (Psalm 119:76, NIV) When we truly dig in to the word of God, we quickly find ourselves probing into the heart of God. His unfailing love for us is certain and true. He speaks to us through His Word in order to […]
02/21/22 Daily Devotion – God’s Word reveals true love!
“The earth is filled with your love, O Lord; teach me your decrees.” (Psalm 119:64, NIV) There were times in my life when I concluded that God’s Word, in the end, was just a bunch of dos and don’ts — page after page of statutes and requirements that need to be adhered to. When I looked […]
01/28/22 Daily Devotion – You are chosen and loved by God!
“Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.” (Colossians 3:12–14, […]
10/27/2020 Daily Devotion – The beauty of marriage!
“The wife’s body does not belong to her alone but also to her husband. In the same way, the husband’s body does not belong to him alone but also to his wife.” (1 Corinthians 7:4 NIV84) So far, in Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians, he has made it clear that what we have is […]
