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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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Grace is More
Leviticus 4:13-14
“If the whole congregation of Israel sins unintentionally and the thing is hidden from the eyes of the assembly … and they realize their guilt, when the sin which they have committed becomes known, the assembly shall offer a bull from the herd for a sin offering and bring it in front of the tent of meeting.”If we form a synthesis from Paul’s indictment on unrepentant humanity in Romans 1 with God’s inauguration here in Leviticus 4 regarding the unintentional sinner, we’ll walk away today better equipped to speak the truth in love to the unrepentant sinners in our society. Far too often, I’ve tended to view unbelievers through too cynical a lens, extracting Scriptures like, “our righteousness is as filthy rags” to impugn my relatively moral neighbor, believing him to have some secret and self-serving motive beneath the good intentions. I’ve read Paul’s words in Romans 1 that unbelievers have willfully exchanged true worship for idolatrous practice and leave too little room for the reality of human ignorance and mistaken priorities.
But Leviticus 4 makes it clear that unintentional sins are just as much a deficiency of our human condition as intentional sins, and I imagine they might be a lot more prevalent than even the most pious among us would readily admit. Even those of us who’ve been washed by the blood of the Lamb, those of us who rejoice in confessing our sins because the confession leads us to glory in our Savior’s grace, still have no real clue as to just how great that grace really is, right? We can easily list the really bad things we’ve done in our seasons of prodigality, but do we have any inkling just how many sins have gone unconfessed through our lives of faith? Have we kept track of every prideful and lustful and envious and judgmental thought that has entered our minds? Even worse, how many times have we done wrong thing in good intent, thinking we were doing the right and noble thing? Only God knows!
“Grace that is greater than all our sin,” one hymnwriter beautifully put it, but let me add this little addendum based on Leviticus 4:13-14: “Grace that is greater than all our sin: from those we confess to those we never even recognize.”
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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
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Sabbath Psalm (Revision of Frank Bottome’s hymn, ‘The Comforter Has Come’)
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Come Away with Me
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A Critical Departure
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Down with the Ship
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The Good Fight
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A Horror Story
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Sabbath Psalm 47 (Revised from John Peterson’ hymn ‘Jesus is Coming Again’)
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Come All Who Thirst!
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A Reassuring Truth
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What's On the Menu Today?
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Choices and Consequence
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What Have We Become?
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Sabbath Psalm 46 (Revision of John Bakewell’s hymn ‘Hail, Thou Once-Despised Jesus!’)
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When Adjectives Fail
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Epics and Epitaphs
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A Team Effort
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What a Guy!
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A Holy Touch
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Sabbath Psalm 45 (Revision of Thomas Kelly’s hymn ‘Hark! Ten Thousand Harps and Voices’)
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Name Your Price
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Amazing Grace, How Sweet the Smell
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A Most Fulfilling Prophecy
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Marked by the Blood
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Dressing the Part
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Sabbath Psalm 44 (Revision of John Peterson’s hymn ‘Open Wide, Ye Doors’)
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Facts and Feelings
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Priesthood: A Balancing Act
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Beautiful Glory—Glorious Beauty
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Lamplighters
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A Mobile Home
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Sabbath Psalm 43 (Revision of Giovanni P. Da Palestrina’s hymn ‘The Strife is Over’)
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An Open Door
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Gold Rush
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Practicing God’s Presence
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An Ark Like No Other
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A Heavenly Contribution
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Sabbath Psalm 42
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A Crackling Fire
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Picnic Time!
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There is a Fountain
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A Book Signing
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A Recurring Theme
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Sabbath Psalm 41
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Are You Listening?
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Almighty Love
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Got Justice?
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A Song to Share
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Fable of Farce?
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Sabbath Psalm 40
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A Revolutionary Idea
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The Avenger
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A Silver Lining
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Liberty by Submission, pt. 2
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Liberty by Submission, pt. 1
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Sabbath Psalm 39
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A Bit More Context
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Laws on Slavery (An Introduction)
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The Art of Worship
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A Deep Light
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A Word on Honor
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Blessed Rest
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What’s in a Name?
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The Law in Essence
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Further In
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Lead Me to Calvary
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The Gospel Call
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Supreme Court Justice
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An Intervention
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The Tie that Binds
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Coming Around
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Pitching In