Because We’ve Been Given Grace
Listen to Today’s Devotion Forgiveness is not foolishness. Forgiveness, at its core, is choosing to see your offender with different eyes. By the way, how can we grace-recipients do anything less? Dare we ask God…
“Perfect Courtesy Toward All”: A Call to Gospel-Shaped Citizenship
How a Christian behaves may open doors of opportunity, or it may slam them shut. Although reputation with the world should never come before love and fear of God, the New Testament clearly calls believers…
Perfect Justice
Listen to Today’s Devotion God occupies the only seat on the supreme court of heaven. He wears the robe and refuses to share the gavel. Paul wrote in Romans 12:19 (MSG), “Don’t insist on getting…
Not Out of God’s Reach
Listen to Today’s Devotion Some years ago a Rottweiler attacked our golden retriever puppy at a kennel. The animal climbed out of its run and into Molly’s and nearly killed her. I wrote a letter…
Wallpaper: Footing of Free Grace
“Only on the footing of free grace can the most experienced and most honored of the saints approach their God.” —C. H. Spurgeon Click below to download your image: Apple Devices:iPadsiPhones Other Devices:Android PhonesAmazon FireMicrosoft…
Make God Your Refuge
Listen to Today’s Devotion Refuge is a favorite word of David’s. You’ll count as many as forty-plus appearances in some Bible versions. But never did David use the word more poignantly than in Psalm 57.…
Imperfect but Chosen: How Grace Transforms Leaders
As he drew his first letter to a close, the apostle Peter focused in on the reality of suffering that his recipients would endure and the need for leaders to shepherd their flocks well. Like…
Hymn: “Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah” by William Williams
Guide me, O Thou great Jehovah, Pilgrim through this barren land. I am weak, but Thou art mighty; Hold me with Thy powerful hand. Bread of heaven, Bread of heaven, Feed me till I want…
A Friend for Life
Listen to Today’s Devotion I spent too much of a high school summer working in the old field. We donned gas masks, waded into ankle deep, contaminated mire. My mom burned my work clothes. The…
For the Misfits
Listen to Today’s Devotion 1 Samuel 16:7 (NKJV) says, “…man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.” Those words were written for misfits and outcasts. God uses them all. Moses ran…