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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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Unbreakable
Exodus 34:1
The LORD said to Moses, “Cut for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.”One thing we learn time and time again throughout the ongoing chronicles of human history is that you can’t break the words of God. Think of some of those first words that started the whole drama, such as, “Let there be light!”, and “Let the seas swarm with living creatures”, and “let their be stars in the heavens to mark signs and seasons.” These words of genitive power have pulsated through the universe ever since, binding every atom, holding every molecule, connecting all things in perfect harmony and balance, and there’s nothing we can do to stop them. We can deny them of course—deny that God ever spoke the words, deny that these words are still speaking with perpetual potency. We can even craft theories of origin and pretend that the cosmos rides on the back of a giant turtle or that life is an accidental cataclysm that sprung from some amoebic explosion or that the finite world has no depth of purpose outside the words we speak into it. But the sun keeps shining and the tides keep flowing and the seasons keep changing like a carousel dancing up and down to a heavenly song.
Now relate that truth back to Exodus 34:1. Yes, Moses shattered those testimonial stones in a fit of rage, and, yes, the people broke their covenant when they defiled themselves before that golden idol, but God’s words aren’t subservient to man’s will. His promise isn’t made null and void by our weakness. The truth of the testimony isn’t buried in the rubble of Sinai’s gorge; it’s as living and active as ever. See, friend, God doesn’t give Moses new words here in Exodus 34 as if Moses has broken the old ones; he just gets new stones. And He doesn’t speak a new promise to these rebellious sons and daughters of Abraham because they spoiled the first; He just reiterates the original promise afresh.
“Heaven and earth may pass away, but my words will never pass away,” our Lord reminded us in John’s Gospel, and that’s a good word for us today as we watch our own society collapse around us.
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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
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Strong as a Rock
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How Long, O Lord?!
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Treasures in the Dust
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Mark My Word
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Heaven Sent
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In Between
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Meaning, as a Rule
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Fight or Flight
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If the Bones are Good
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Sabbath Psalm 34
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The Power of His Word
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A Song is Rising
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A Wake-Up Call
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Genesis, First-Hand
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Do or Die
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Sabbath Psalm 33
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Face Off
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Not on Auto-Pilot
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Oh the Radiance!
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Unbreakable Bonds
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God is Strong—for Starters
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Sabbath Psalm 32
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Indigenous Saints
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A Traveling Band
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A Blood Bath