2/25/2024 Daily Devotion – Self-reliance is self-defeating!

“Therefore in that day the Lord God of hosts called you to weeping, to wailing, to shaving the head and to wearing sackcloth. Instead, there is gaiety and gladness, killing of cattle and slaughtering of sheep, eating of meat and drinking of wine: Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we may die.” — Isaiah 22:12–13 (NASB95) Yesterday’s […]

02/12/2024 Daily Devotion – Pay close attention when God describes Himself!

“Then the Lord passed by in front of him and proclaimed, ‘The Lord, the Lord God, compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in lovingkindness and truth; who keeps lovingkindness for thousands, who forgives iniquity, transgression and sin; yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, visiting the iniquity of fathers on the children and on the […]

05/01/23 Daily Devotion – Metanoia: a complete change of thought and attitude

“And after taking some food, he regained his strength. Saul spent several days with the disciples in Damascus. At once he began to preach in the synagogues that Jesus is the Son of God. All those who heard him were astonished and asked, ‘Isn’t he the man who raised havoc in Jerusalem among those who call on […]

04/30/23 Daily Devotion – Repentance + Conversion = Change!

“Then Ananias went to the house and entered it. Placing his hands on Saul, he said, ‘Brother Saul, the Lord — Jesus, who appeared to you on the road as you were coming here — has sent me so that you may see again and be filled with the Holy Spirit.’ Immediately, something like scales […]

03/20/23 Daily Devotion – The message remains the same!

“and repentance and forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.” (Luke 24:47 NIV84) Jesus opened the meaning of the Scriptures to His disciples and explained why it was necessary that He die and rise again so that humanity might be saved. Then He told them that their […]

02/27/23 Daily Devotion – He knows what’s coming!

“‘Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift you as wheat. But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.’” (Luke 22:31–32, NIV84) For the first time, I draw comfort from these verses. Previously when I read them, my mind would jump directly to […]

01/12/2023 Daily Devotion – ‘…but you were not willing!’

“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!” (Luke 13:34, NIV84) When Jesus spoke these words Jerusalem was the religious capital of Judaism and had […]

New Year’s Eve Devotion – Dec. 31: Don’t look back! Press on!

“Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining […]

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