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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
King of the Grasshoppers
Deuteronomy 3:1 &11
“Then we turned and went up the way to Bashan. And Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei. … (For only Og the king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaim. Behold, his bed was a bed of iron. … Nine cubits was its length, and four cubits its breadth, according to the common cubit.)”What image comes to your mind as you read of this Canaanite hulk named Og storming through the hills with his army to thwart the advance of God’s Kingdom? Maybe you picture a rugged, handsome warrior, the Viking sort, with long, braided hair, a full beard, and rounded, muscular shoulders that lay beside his iron neck like boulders. Or maybe you picture an ordinary, unimpressive chieftain that only got where he got in life because he was a head taller than everyone else in his clan. But I don’t see a man at all when I read Deuteronomy 3:1 and 11. I see a sort of godless ogre racing out from the rocks like a troll from a Hans Christian Anderson tale or an orc from a Tolkien novel or a devil from a John Bunyan allegory.
Og—what an ugly sound! How well it matches the soul (and there isn’t much soul left). His brief appearance in the biblical record is anything but a fairytale, of course, but it’s still a fable, teaching us that not only do devils get destroyed by Almighty God, but that they cast themselves as the villains by their own will. Had Og rushed down from his hilltop fortress with open arms and a white flag, had he thrown the gates of his kingdom wide open and welcomed God’s people inside, had he let go of his destructive pride and pleaded with Moses for mercy, leaving behind his made-up, propped-up, puffed-up charade of power and joined the pilgrims on their journey to a true Kingdom, then his name would’ve resounded with those of Abraham and Joshua and David. And—who knows—God might’ve given him a new name the way He changed Abram’s name to Abraham and Saul to Paul.
Friend, never pity the sinner for the death he incurs on himself. Pity him for the life he forfeits.
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Latest Devotional
King of the Grasshoppers
Deuteronomy 3:1 &11
“Then we turned and went up the way to Bashan. And Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei. … (For only Og the king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaim. Behold, his bed was a bed of iron. … Nine cubits was its length, and four cubits its breadth, according to the common cubit.)”What image comes to your mind as you read of this Canaanite hulk named Og storming through the hills with his army to thwart the advance of God’s Kingdom? Maybe you picture a rugged, handsome warrior, the Viking sort, with long, braided hair, a full beard, and rounded, muscular shoulders that lay beside his iron neck like boulders. Or maybe you picture an ordinary, unimpressive chieftain that only got where he got in life because he was a head taller than everyone else in his clan. But I don’t see a man at all when I read Deuteronomy 3:1 and 11. I see a sort of godless ogre racing out from the rocks like a troll from a Hans Christian Anderson tale or an orc from a Tolkien novel or a devil from a John Bunyan allegory.
Og—what an ugly sound! How well it matches the soul (and there isn’t much soul left). His brief appearance in the biblical record is anything but a fairytale, of course, but it’s still a fable, teaching us that not only do devils get destroyed by Almighty God, but that they cast themselves as the villains by their own will. Had Og rushed down from his hilltop fortress with open arms and a white flag, had he thrown the gates of his kingdom wide open and welcomed God’s people inside, had he let go of his destructive pride and pleaded with Moses for mercy, leaving behind his made-up, propped-up, puffed-up charade of power and joined the pilgrims on their journey to a true Kingdom, then his name would’ve resounded with those of Abraham and Joshua and David. And—who knows—God might’ve given him a new name the way He changed Abram’s name to Abraham and Saul to Paul.
Friend, never pity the sinner for the death he incurs on himself. Pity him for the life he forfeits.
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Holy Dread
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Blaze of Glory
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Sabbath Psalm (Adapted from Mary Kidder’s hymn ‘Is My Name Written There?’)
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Outliers
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The Father’s Arms
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The Prepositions of Providence
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The Grace of Problem Solving
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Make Me a Sanctuary
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Sabbath Psalm (From Fanny Crosby’s hymn ‘Blessed Assurance’)
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Spiritual Scars
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Better Judgment
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A Roll Call
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Kingdom Rising
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A Tale of Two Pilgrims
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Sabbath Psalm (Revised from Charles Wesley’s hymn ‘Depth of Mercy’)
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A Leprous Colony
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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