Daily Devotional

Brother will deliver brother over to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death, and you will be hated by all for my name’s sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.  When they persecute you in one town, flee to the next, for truly, I […]

And He said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it. For what does it profit a man if he gains the

“And when you come before God, don’t turn that into a theatrical production either. All these people making a regular show out of their prayers, hoping for fifteen minutes of fame! Do you think God sits in a box seat?  Here’s what I want you to do: Find a quiet, secluded place so you won’t

And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near. Hebrews 10:24-25 How did this verse become a religious mandate for attending religious services? I have read the

Don’t be naive. There are difficult times ahead. As the end approaches, people are going to be self-absorbed, money-hungry, self-promoting, stuck-up, profane, contemptuous of parents, crude, coarse, dog-eat-dog, unbending, slanderers, impulsively wild, savage, cynical, treacherous, ruthless, bloated windbags, addicted to lust, and allergic to God. They’ll make a show of religion, but behind the scenes

And He called the people to him and said to them, “Hear and understand:  it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth; this defiles a person.”  Then the disciples came and said to him, “Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?” He

God, my shepherd!     I don’t need a thing. You have bedded me down in lush meadows,     you find me quiet pools to drink from. True to your word,     you let me catch my breath     and send me in the right direction. Psalms 23:1-3 MSG Cool streams within forests of green and the serene quiet of

You have heard; now see all this;     and will you not declare it? From this time forth I announce to you new things,     hidden things that you have not known. Isaiah 48:6 New things. They can be exciting and they can be frustrating. Doing new things after being in a pattern or habit for a long

Greet also the church in their house. Greet my beloved Epaenetus, who was the first convert to Christ in Asia. Romans 16:5 Oh how the stories of the early church fire my soul! Christians didn’t have church buildings like we do now, they went ‘house to house’ and most often the “church” meetings were in

And He gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of