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Category: Devotional

  • Day 2: You Are Not an Accident – 40 Days of Purpose-Driven Life

    Day 2: You Are Not an Accident – 40 Days of Purpose-Driven Life

    What on Earth Am I Here For? Point to Ponder: I am not an accident. Verse to Remember: “I am your Creator. You were in my care even before you were born.” — Isaiah 44:2 (CEV) Question to Consider:I know that God uniquely created me. What areas of my personality,…

  • Day 1: It All Starts with God – 40 Days of Purpose by Rick Warren

    Day 1: It All Starts with God – 40 Days of Purpose by Rick Warren

    What on Earth Am I Here For? Point to Ponder: It’s not about me. Verse to Remember: “Everything got started in him, and finds its purpose in him.” — Colossians 1:16b (Msg) Question to Consider: In spite of all the advertising around me, how can I remind myself that life…

  • And Now, A Word From Our Sponsor

    Selected — okay, selective — blessings from Malachi. Yeah, these positive phrases were “cherry-picked” without regard for context, so don’t treat this as theologically rigorous, but I still enjoy the sentiments expressed…

  • Malachi 4 The Day of The End

    Questions: What is the day of the Lord? Is it a good or bad thing? Do we fear the name of the Lord? Should we? How? “Read More” to pursue answers in Malachi.

  • Malachi 3 Testing Time

    Questions: What is the right and wrong way to test God? What would God say to us at our final exam? Is the day of reckoning a good or a bad thing? What is the real difference between the righteous and the wicked? When, if ever, does it matter? “Read…

  • Malachi 2 One Thing, More…

    Consider this:If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay [it] to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not…

  • Malachi 1 Talk, Turkey!

    As 2005 comes to an end, I felt it would be appropriate to close with the book that wraps up the Old Testament: the great “Italian” prophet, Malachi. Questions: When is a prophecy a burden? How do we know God loves us? Why is He so demanding? What makes a…

  • Nehemiah 13 Unhappy Returns

    yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin.He is also bluntly clear that marriage is a social act, not a private one:Shall we then hearken…

  • Nehemiah 12 Role Call

    Questions: Why does it matter who did what when? What is the relation between spiritual and political leadership? Is there such a thing as a good tax? “Read More” to pursue answers in Nehemiah.

  • Nehemiah 11 A Capitol Idea

    Questions: Why induce people to live in the Capitol? Why focus on the leaders? Who’s responsible? Does it matter? “Read More” to pursue answers in Nehemiah.

  • Nehemiah 10 Performing Seal

    Questions: Why do we need a written contract? How much is our name worth? What role do leaders play? Are outsiders really the problem? Why must we not forsake the house of our God? “Read More” to pursue answers in Nehemiah.

  • Nehemiah 9 Father-Land

    Questions: When should we mourn? Dare we criticize our forefathers? What must we separate ourselves from? What does it mean to consider ourselves sinful, and God holy? Is that a safe assumption? “Read More” to pursue answers in Nehemiah.

  • Nehemiah 8 Ezra! Ezra! Read All About It!

    Questions: Why read the Law? With what attitude? To what end? How does understanding differ from knowledge* Why should we rejoice and not weep? “Read More” to pursue answers in Nehemiah.

  • True Repentance by Charles Haddon Spurgeon

    Today’s devotional from Spurgeon: True repentance has a distinct reference to the Saviour. When we repent of sin, we must have one eye upon sin and another upon the cross, or it will be better still if we fix both our eyes upon Christ and see our transgressions only, in…

  • Nehemiah 7 Redeeming Authority

    Questions: What does it take to rebuild a community? Whom do we trust to lead? Are we building walls, or lives? How should walls be used? How do we establish just dominion? “Read More” to pursue answers in Nehemiah. Father God, make me an instrument of your authority. Where there…

  • Nehemiah 6 Rotten Meet

    Questions: What motivates our enemies? Where does courage come from? When is religion a crutch? Who speaks for God? How can we tell genuine from false* Why are some attacks doomed to fail? “Read More” to pursue answers in Nehemiah

  • Nehemiah 5 Human Capital

    Why is slavery wrong? Why did God sometimes allow it? What is our responsibility for how we use our money? What do we owe the poor? Are we our brother’s keepers? “Read More” to pursue answers in Nehemiah.

  • Covered With [Wholesome] Sin by Charles Haddon Spurgeon

    I loved the imagery and insight in today’s Spurgeon devotional: “Behold, if the leprosy have covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague.” —-Leviticus 13:13 The basic idea is that the path of virtue, paradoxically, requires embracing our total sinfulness. That is, only when we…

  • Nehemiah 4 The Bitter Half

    Questions: Why does doing good create enemies? How should we respond to opposition? What is it that we really need to fear? Why is it important to fight and work together? “Read More” to pursue answers in Nehemiah.

  • Children of God by Charles Haddon Spurgeon

    Today’s devotional really spoke to the question of “Joy” that I realize I’d been missing: The rod of chastisement must rest upon us in our measure, but it worketh for us the comfortable fruits of righteousness; and therefore by the aid of the divine Comforter, we, the “people saved of…