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These daily devotionals are written to help you remain rooted and grounded in God's Word each day. We have one devotional for each weekday, and one for the weekend.
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Latest Devotional
A Leprous Colony
Numbers 33:50-52
And the LORD spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying, “… When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan, then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you and destroy all their figured stones and destroy all their metal images and demolish all their high places.”This is God’s world—not man’s. Although the LORD has placed us in charge of the earth as stewards, crafting us in His image to build and invent and effectively dip our hands into the sandbox of matter’s mysteries and fashion something out of it, He didn’t endow us with these precious powers so that we could make of the world whatever we wished. He didn’t fashion us to live unto ourselves. And the fundamental difference between the humility of Creator God and the hubris of created man is that God, Who has no need of us, desires to build a Kingdom with us, but man, who is dependent on God for every breath, desires to build a kingdom on his own. That’s our craven image—a world in our own likeness. So we violate the earthen vessels that God made and fashion idols that suit our fancies better. We desecrate the sacred hills of divine quietude with sacrifices to demons. The figured stones and metal images and hilltop shrines of our ego have been littering the landscape of nature ever since Genesis 3.
Notice, friend, that this severe command of Numbers 33:50-52 is exactly the same command He gave in Leviticus 14-15 regarding cleanliness. Do you remember? Anyone with leprous spots was to be driven out of the city until cleansed. And any home with leprous mold was to be abandoned until a priest could remediate it. Why? Because God won’t allow His holiness to be tainted by our sinfulness. The stains must be completely eradicated before fellowship can be restored. And these Canaanite hills are a leprous colony. Every idol, every backyard altar, every porcelain ornament on a mantelpiece is a pox on the body of this land.
Oh that we’d stop making excuses for sin today, and stop molding it, and stop making room for it, and take seriously what our Lord and Savior died to redeem us from. Drive out! Destroy! Demolish those closet, backyard sins! And do it now.
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Latest Devotional
A Leprous Colony
Numbers 33:50-52
And the LORD spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying, “… When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan, then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you and destroy all their figured stones and destroy all their metal images and demolish all their high places.”This is God’s world—not man’s. Although the LORD has placed us in charge of the earth as stewards, crafting us in His image to build and invent and effectively dip our hands into the sandbox of matter’s mysteries and fashion something out of it, He didn’t endow us with these precious powers so that we could make of the world whatever we wished. He didn’t fashion us to live unto ourselves. And the fundamental difference between the humility of Creator God and the hubris of created man is that God, Who has no need of us, desires to build a Kingdom with us, but man, who is dependent on God for every breath, desires to build a kingdom on his own. That’s our craven image—a world in our own likeness. So we violate the earthen vessels that God made and fashion idols that suit our fancies better. We desecrate the sacred hills of divine quietude with sacrifices to demons. The figured stones and metal images and hilltop shrines of our ego have been littering the landscape of nature ever since Genesis 3.
Notice, friend, that this severe command of Numbers 33:50-52 is exactly the same command He gave in Leviticus 14-15 regarding cleanliness. Do you remember? Anyone with leprous spots was to be driven out of the city until cleansed. And any home with leprous mold was to be abandoned until a priest could remediate it. Why? Because God won’t allow His holiness to be tainted by our sinfulness. The stains must be completely eradicated before fellowship can be restored. And these Canaanite hills are a leprous colony. Every idol, every backyard altar, every porcelain ornament on a mantelpiece is a pox on the body of this land.
Oh that we’d stop making excuses for sin today, and stop molding it, and stop making room for it, and take seriously what our Lord and Savior died to redeem us from. Drive out! Destroy! Demolish those closet, backyard sins! And do it now.
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Word Spreads
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Dry Seasons Pt. 2
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Dry Seasons
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For the Record
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Sabbath Psalm (From Priscilla Owens’ hymn ‘Jesus Saves!’’)
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Monumental Letters
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A Second Impression
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Fighting Words
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Either-Or
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Striking Justice
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Sabbath Psalm (From Lidie H. Edmund’s hymn ‘My Faith Has Found a Resting Place’)
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The Fall of Balaam
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Justice—A Double-Edged Sword
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Spoken For
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A Divine Intervention
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Promises Performed
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Out of the Ordinary
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Dying Request
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Hand in Hand
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When God Speaks for You
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A New Genesis
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Sabbath Psalm (Revised from John Peterson’ hymn ‘A Flag to Follow’)
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In Broad Daylight
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No Place Like Home
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Balaam’s Final Oracle
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Faith—An Oasis
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Balaam’s Second Oracle
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Sabbath Psalm (Revision of Henry F. Lyte’s hymn ‘Jesus, I My Cross Have Taken’)
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Balaam’s First Oracle
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A Language Barrier pt. 2
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A Language Barrier pt. 1
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No Solicitors!
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Out of the Shadows
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Sabbath Psalm (Revised from Palmer Hartsough’s hymn ‘I Am Resolved’)
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The Way of Kings
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Lost Books
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The Truth Bites
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The Hand-Off
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Rebels All
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Sabbath Psalm (Revision of Mary D. James’ hymn ‘All for Jesus’)
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Come to the Waters
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Eulogies for the Living
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Sin is Oh So Draining
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In Christ Alone
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Guardians of the Gift
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Sabbath Psalm (From E. W. Blandy’s hymn, ‘Take the World but Give Me Jesus’)
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A Sappy Symbol
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Rhetorical Righteousness
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A Powerful Posture
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Making Memories
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Tribes and Tongues, pt. 2
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Sabbath Psalm (Adapted from Philip P. Bliss’s hymn, ‘Let the Lower Lights be Burning’)
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Tribes and Tongues, pt. 1
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Stop the Rot!
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Jesus Love the Little Children
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Beating Hearts
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One-Sided
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Sabbath Psalm (Adapted from Joseph Scriven’s hymn, ‘What a Friend We Have in Jesus’)
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The Beginning of Wisdom
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The Grasshopper Principle
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Do You See What I See?
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Time Out
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A Reconciling Rebuke
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Sabbath Psalm (From Fanny Crosby’s beloved hymn, ‘Near the Cross’)
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Unrighteous Rhetoric
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A Story Shared
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Moses’ Complaint pt. 2
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Moses’ Complaint pt. 1
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Famished
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Sabbath Psalm (Adapted from George Matheson’s hymn ‘O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go’)
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Burning
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High Notes and Low Notes
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Silver Chords
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The Waiting Room
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The One and the Many
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Sabbath Psalm (A revision of John W. Peterson’s hymn ‘A Student’s Prayer’)
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Transitions
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The Gold Standard
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Between the Angels
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An Acceptable Approach
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Waxing Lyrical
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Sabbath Psalm (Revision of John W. Peterson’s hymn, ‘Just One Step at a Time’)
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Locks of Love
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A Nazirite New Year
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Love is Jealous, Love is Kind
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Get Your Hard Hat Ready
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Blue Collar Cloth
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Sabbath Psalm (Revision of Fanny Crosby’s hymn ‘All the Way My Savior Leads Me’)
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Beyond the Blue
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A Most Sacred Order
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Awaiting the Dawn
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Tribal Standards
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Count Me In
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Hallelujah!
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Servant Status
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Enduring Love
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Don’t Light the Fuse!
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The Last Word
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Don’t Wait . . . Sing Now!