Devotionals Daily Blog for Inspiration and Growth

Last weekend marked the opening weekend of God’s Not Dead, a film directed by Harold Cronk and released by Pure Flix Entertainment. The film introduces us to Josh Wheaton (Shane ...

Jesus… The man. The bronzed Galilean who spoke with such thunderous authority and loved with such childlike humility. He could have lived over us or away from us. But He ...

John 5:19-47JN – Then Jesus answered and said to them, “ Most assuredly, This is an emphatic way of saying, “I’m telling you the truth.” in response to Jewish hostility ...

I AM WITH YOU. I am with you. I am with you.Heaven’s bells continually peal with that promise of My Presence. Some people never hear those bells because their minds ...

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of ...

Jesus raised His friend Lazarus from the dead. What was significant about the words of the dead man’s sister Martha when Lazarus still lay in the grave?When Jesus heard the ...

What if, for one day, Jesus were to become you? What if, for twenty-four hours, Jesus wakes up in your bed, walks in your shoes, lives in your house, assumes ...

The book of Proverbs is the Old Testament’s Twitter. After some introductory chapters that present wisdom’s beauty, benefits, and beckonings, we encounter hundreds and hundreds of Tweets – short, pithy, ...

“For God so loved the world…”“I saw a woman today who finally became hard as wood all over.” French physician Guy Patin wrote these words in 1692, the first clinical ...

Jesus Heals a Leprous ManMatthew 8:2–4; Mark 1:40–45; Luke 5:12–16LK — And it happened when He was in a certain city, that behold, a man who was full of leprosy ...

Matthew 4:13–22; Mark 1:16–20; Luke 4:31a(Matthew) MT — And leaving NazarethSome time elapsed between Matthew 4:12 and Matthew 4:13. Jesus’ stay in Nazareth ended abruptly when He was violently rejected ...

The city of Nazareth sits on a summit. Certainly no Nazarene boy could resist an occasional hike to the crest to look out over the valley beneath. Sitting six hundred ...

What do we know about Jesus’ childhoodLuke 2 presents the one authentic biblical account of Jesus’ childhood, and the scene reveals a very normal boy with true-to-life parents.Joseph and Mary ...

Genesis 2 ends with, “Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.”Two humans, wrapped up in a relationship for life, centered around friendship, gardening, sexuality, and ...

The last line in the story is, “Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.”Two young, amorous, naked people in a garden. Sounds like reality TV ...

The Purpose of Marriage – Watch the VideoGod put Adam in the garden to “work it and take care of it.” That was a part of human’s job description. The ...