Hoist the Sail
Listen to Today’s Devotion “‘Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says the Lord of Hosts” (Zechariah 4:6 NASB). Jesus invites us to hoist the sail. Rowboat Christianity exhausts and frustrates. Those…
Listen to Today’s Devotion “‘Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says the Lord of Hosts” (Zechariah 4:6 NASB). Jesus invites us to hoist the sail. Rowboat Christianity exhausts and frustrates. Those…
Listen to Today’s Devotion The Spirit is like the wind. Had Jesus stopped with this comment, Nicodemus would have had plenty to ponder. Yet Jesus went on to stretch the imagination of Nick and Max…
Listen to Today’s Devotion The Spirit is wholly holy and unlike any being in our world, which is such good news! We need a source of strength that is unbuffeted by that which buffets us,…
Listen to Today’s Devotion On one side, Nicodemus, representing all well-meaning, God-fearing, scripture-memorizing folk. On the other, Jesus Christ. And what the latter says to the former is so uncanny that it sends shock waves…
Listen to Today’s Devotion “Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit” (Galatians 5:25 NIV). Make it your aim to walk in the Spirit by inviting him into the…
Listen to Today’s Devotion I recall an afternoon early in my ministry when the invitation of Jesus to the weary became the invitation of Jesus to Max. I was supposed to be studying, but I…
Listen to Today’s Devotion The Holy Spirit has a specific, overarching mission. His task is to teach us about Jesus. The apostle Paul echoed this point. “No one’s ever seen or heard anything like this,…
Listen to Today’s Devotion Jesus doesn’t want us to think of the Holy Spirit as an it or a thing. The Spirit is a person. According to one study only four people in ten believe…
Listen to Today’s Devotion Some time ago I realized my car’s gas tank was nearly empty. I spotted a convenience store and parked next to a pump. I placed the nozzle in my tank, swiped…
Listen to Today’s Devotion Jesus would not let his followers begin their ministries unless they knew the Holy Spirit. By this point the disciples had spent three years in training. They had seen the empty…