Intimate Fellowship with God
DEVOTION • “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him” (John 14:23).
Read time: 2 min
The Illuminating Revelation of God
DEVOTION • “Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him” (John 14:21).
Read time: 2 min
Never Alone: The Promise of the Holy Spirit
DEVOTION • “I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you” (John 14:18).
Read time: 2 min
Adopted by God: Embracing Our New Identity
DEVOTION • “You have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, ‘Abba! Father!” (Rom. 8:15).
Read time: 2 min
The End of Guilt
DEVOTION • “Though you wash yourself with lye and use much soap, the stain of your guilt is still before me” (Jer 2:22); “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow” (Is 1:18).
Read time: 3 min
Mixtures of ‘Smoke and Light’
DEVOTION • “A smoldering wick he will not quench, until he brings justice to victory” (Matthew 12:20).
Read time: 3 min
Coram Deo: Moment by Moment Before the Face of God
DEVOTION • “Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer” (Psalm 19:14).
Read time: 2 min
What’s Your Hope? How Jesus is Better than Winning the Powerball
DEVOTION • “May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope” (Rom 15:13).
Read time: 3 min
Pursuing the Abundant Life in the Spirit
DEVOTION • “One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple” (Ps 27:4).
Read time: 2 min
Why Doesn’t God Just Fix Our Problems?
DEVOTION • The story of the Brazen Serpent in Numbers 21:4–9 illustrates why God may, in fact, provide grace in the midst of a crisis rather than immediately removing the crisis.
Read time: 3 min
Beware of Ritual without Relationship
DEVOTION • Hosea 6:6: “For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.”
Read time: 2 min
Resist the Devil by Resisting the Devilish Impulse to Distrust God
DEVOTION • James 4:7: “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.“
Read time: 4 min
Stare at the Son for Personal Transformation
DEVOTION • 2 Corinthians 3:18: “And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.”
Read time: 3 min