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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
Skeletons in the Closet
1 Corinthians 2:5
So that your faith would not rest on the wisdom of men, but on the power of God.
One wealthy media mogul commented not too long ago that “Christians are losers.” What he probably meant was that all of the Christians he had come in contact with had been less successful than he had been. Then again, he might have known a Christian or two who had failed to live up to what he intuitively knew a Christian should be. Frankly, you’d think that God would do everything possible to enhance the reputation of His saints. However, when you read the Bible, God included details about His people that you and I would have edited out. He pulled the skeletons out of the closet of some of His choicest servants. He recorded their failures, often with more detail than their successes.
God could have left the flawless history of Abraham intact. Did we need to know that Abraham lied about his wife being his sister in order to save his own skin—not once, but twice?! And then we learned that his son Isaac would inherit the same problem of not telling the truth—too much information? And what about King David? We would have liked to hear only that David was a man after God’s own heart, he courageously killed Goliath, served as Israel’s greatest king, and prepared Solomon to build the great temple. Did God really have to tell us of David’s adultery and murderous cover-up . . . and then throw in the account about his utter failure as a father to Absalom?
Why scuff the polish on the shoes of our greatest saints? The answer is equally straightforward: God wants to communicate that He uses undeserving, foolish, sinful, faithless, and even incompetent people to accomplish His work in the world . . . which leaves room for you and me. He’s also letting us know that failures aren’t fatal. Where sin abounds, grace abounds even more. If you’ve failed in your past you’re in good company. Get on your knees and confess your sin, and then get back up on your feet and live for Christ.
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Latest Devotional
Skeletons in the Closet
1 Corinthians 2:5
So that your faith would not rest on the wisdom of men, but on the power of God.
One wealthy media mogul commented not too long ago that “Christians are losers.” What he probably meant was that all of the Christians he had come in contact with had been less successful than he had been. Then again, he might have known a Christian or two who had failed to live up to what he intuitively knew a Christian should be. Frankly, you’d think that God would do everything possible to enhance the reputation of His saints. However, when you read the Bible, God included details about His people that you and I would have edited out. He pulled the skeletons out of the closet of some of His choicest servants. He recorded their failures, often with more detail than their successes.
God could have left the flawless history of Abraham intact. Did we need to know that Abraham lied about his wife being his sister in order to save his own skin—not once, but twice?! And then we learned that his son Isaac would inherit the same problem of not telling the truth—too much information? And what about King David? We would have liked to hear only that David was a man after God’s own heart, he courageously killed Goliath, served as Israel’s greatest king, and prepared Solomon to build the great temple. Did God really have to tell us of David’s adultery and murderous cover-up . . . and then throw in the account about his utter failure as a father to Absalom?
Why scuff the polish on the shoes of our greatest saints? The answer is equally straightforward: God wants to communicate that He uses undeserving, foolish, sinful, faithless, and even incompetent people to accomplish His work in the world . . . which leaves room for you and me. He’s also letting us know that failures aren’t fatal. Where sin abounds, grace abounds even more. If you’ve failed in your past you’re in good company. Get on your knees and confess your sin, and then get back up on your feet and live for Christ.
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Deposits and Investments
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Piercing the Darkness
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You’re on Candid Camera!
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Dry Bones
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Without Love
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Father Knows Best
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Putting on the Dog
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The Dreaded Word: Practice!
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Walking in the Spirit
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Down Memory Lane
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The Stops of a Good Man
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Truly Good News
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The Good Shepherd
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People of the Word
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Imitating Christ
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The One Left Standing
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Invisibly Involved
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“Not Guilty!”
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But You, O Lord . . .
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God Uses Broken Things
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Then Comes the Good Part!
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Go to God
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Light Up the Runway!
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Faith is . . .
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I Believe I Will
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Under Evaluation
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Minority Rule
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Sabbath Psalm (Adapted from Albert B. Simpson’s hymn, ‘Yesterday, Today, Forever’)
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The Melody of Raindrops
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Inverse Psychology
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Right Between the Eyes
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Bon Appetit
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Our Word
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Sabbath Psalm (Revision of Jane C. Bonar’s hymn, ‘Fade, Fade, Each Earthly Joy’)
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Dirt in the Divine
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Open Your Eyes!
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Gray Hair and Long Branches
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A Matter of Trust
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A Begrudging Virtue
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Sabbath Psalm (Revision of William T. Sleeper’s hymn, ‘Jesus, I Come’)
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The Least of These
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Remedial Purity
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Mad Goat Disease
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Joyful Sorrow…And Other Paradoxes
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Seeing Double
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Sabbath Psalm (Revision of John M. Neale’s hymn ‘Art Thou Weary?’)
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Cleaning House
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The Buck Stops With You
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The Seminal Covenant
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Word from our Land-LORD
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Stop the Spread
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Sabbath Psalm (From Lidie Edmunds hymn, ‘My Faith Has Found a Resting Place’)
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A Less-Than-Perfect Conception
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Altars and Alterations
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The City Center
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Hold Your Peace
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Fight the Tide
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Sabbath Psalm (Revised from Dora Greenwell’s hymn, ‘My Savior’)
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Hearts Ablaze
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The Glory in the Commandment
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New Dawn
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The Big Six
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The Hermeneutic of Hindsight
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Sabbath Psalm (A revision of Horatius Bonar’s hymn ‘Here, O My Lord, I See You Face to Face’)
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Earth-Shattering Faith
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Over-the-Top Confession
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Top-Top Shelf
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Pleading the Fifth
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From Immanuel’s Veins
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Sabbath Psalm (from William Cowper’s hymn, ‘There is a Fountain Filled with Blood’)
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Grace is More
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A Little Clarity
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Buried in the Sinews
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Cometh the Tide
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Better than BBQ
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Sabbath Psalm (A revision of A. Cleveland Coxe’s hymn, ‘O Where are Kings and Empires Now?”)
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Picture Perfect
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Pressing Onward
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Unwritten Prayers
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Blood on Our Hands
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Goodness: the Greatest Blessing
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Sabbath Psalm (Revision of Frederick Brewster’s hymn, ‘Lord God, Our Thanks to Thee We Raise’)
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Shimmering in the Fire
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On Holy Ground We Tread
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You, Me, and Other Gemstones
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Self-Sacrifice
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Faith, Worked Out
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Sabbath Psalm (Revision of Mary Ann Lathbury’s hymn, ‘Break Thou the Bread of Life’)
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Love—in Excess
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A Hand-Me-Down Art
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Gendered Language
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The Afterglow
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Moses and the Red Letters
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Sabbath Psalm (Revision of John Peterson’s hymn, ‘Holy Spirit, Now Outpoured’)
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Crime and Forgiveness
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Unbreakable
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On the Face of It
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The Distinguishing Mark
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A Plot Twist