Devotionals Daily Blog for Inspiration and Growth

The way of the just is uprightness. — Isaiah 26:7It was not America’s finest hour. The year was 1938; the nation was still stuck in the economic malaise following the ...

“What should I pray for? What do I really want?” Here the Bible challenges us to ask a different question. In fact, what we pray for is not even the ...

A first-century Roman proverb warns: “Money is like seawater: the more a man drinks, the thirstier he becomes.” Now, I don’t know if Jesus knew that saying — maybe He ...

These three remain: faith, hope and love. — 1 Corinthians 13:13Faith, hope, and love. According to the Bible these are three indispensable and eternally enduring commodities, ones we ultimately can’t ...

When Martin Luther’s coworker became ill, the reformer prayed boldly for healing.“I besought the Almighty with great vigor,” he wrote. “I attacked him with his own weapons, quoting from Scripture ...

Jimmy never missed a church service. I knew him when I was a teenager growing up in Scotland, and I can still remember how he prayed at our Tuesday night ...

We have personal boundaries, personal property lines, in our relationship with God. God has designed the world so that boundaries are to be respected. He respects ours, and we need ...

And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so. . . So God created the great ...

God planted eternity in our hearts so that we would not stop seeking life beyond ourselves.Jesus tried to speak of this to His disciples not long before He died: “In ...

In Me you have everything. In Me you are complete. Your capacity to experience Me is increasing, through My removal of debris and clutter from your heart. As your yearning ...

In the days leading up to the war with Germany, the British government commissioned a series of posters. The idea was to capture encouraging slogans on paper and distribute them ...

The unfolding of your words gives light; it gives understanding to the simple. – Psalm 119:130We can allow the names we call ourselves to define us. We can let the ...

Then Israel sang this song: “Spring up, O well! Sing about it.” — Numbers 21:17From the pen of Charles Spurgeon:The well in the wilderness at Beer was renowned due to ...

It was a Saturday morning. When I lived in Haiti, that’s when I went to the open-air market to buy my food for the week. I was standing in the ...

In football, each player toils at his job hoping to win his individual battles. Each player brings his own dynamic to the game: for some it’s about intimidation; for others ...

Why do some people consider the Bible intimidating or hard to understand?What do you do when you read something you don’t understand in the Bible?What we have received is not ...