Loving As God Loves
Listen to Today’s Devotion Need more patience? Is generosity an elusive virtue? Having trouble putting up with ungrateful relatives or cranky neighbors? Well God puts up with you when you act the same. Luke 6:35 (NIV)…
Receive First
Listen to Today’s Devotion If you’ve never received love, how can you love others? In other words, we can’t give what we’ve never received. But oh how we try! Our typical strategy? Try harder. “I don’t…
God’s Forever Family
Listen to Today’s Devotion Gary and Steve had acted like brothers for twenty-five years. In 1998, when a caseworker called Gary asking some personal questions, she discovered both Gary and Steve were adopted. Later she…
Why We Worship
Listen to Today’s Devotion Worship adjusts us. It lowers the chin of the haughty and straightens the back of the burdened. It bows the knees, singing to him our praise. Opens our hearts, offering to…
Housewarming Gifts
Listen to Today’s Devotion Long before you knew you needed grace, your Father had you covered. “Christ died for us while we were still sinners” (Romans 5:8). Before you knew you needed a Savior, you had…
Accept God’s Offer
Listen to Today’s Devotion A person can be religious and yet lost. Attending church won’t make you God’s child. You must accept his offer. “For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the…
God Knows You and Is Near You
Listen to Today’s Devotion Christ takes away your sin, and in doing so, he takes away your commonness. You know longer need to say, “No one knows me.” Because God knows you. “Lord, you…know all…
In God’s Great Gospel
Listen to Today’s Devotion No one knows me, we think. People know my name but not my heart. They know my face but not my feelings. I have a social security number but not a…
The Language of Loneliness
Listen to Today’s Devotion We may relish moments of solitude, but a lifetime of it? No way. Many of us, however, are too fluent in the language of loneliness. The kids used to need me…the…
Good and Faithful
Listen to Today’s Devotion God gives gifts, not miserly, but abundantly! And he doesn’t give gifts randomly, but carefully, “to each according to each one’s unique ability” (Matthew 25:15). Remember, no one else has your talents.…