Devotional

Read the Word: Mark 14:3-9 Meditate on the Word: Although I don’t watch a lot of football, I know enough to know that there is no such thing as a fair-weather Buffalo Bills fan. Recently, the team put out a call for fans to come and clear snow at the stadium so that the game… Read More »

Read the Word: Genesis 11:1-9 Meditate on the Word: I recently read an article about the planned community of California City, California. Most of the land area of the city, which is California’s third-largest, is unpaved roads, complete with names, where houses were intended to be built. Houses were never built there, but from the… Read More »

Read the Word: Psalm 111:2-5 Meditate on the Word: Creation is a magnificent thing to behold! Mountains and valleys, oceans and rivers, trees and flowers, and a wide variety of animals. These all testify to the glory of the God who spoke them into being. Only God could have imagined a planet with all these… Read More »

Read the Word: Romans 9:6-18 Meditate on the Word: This is a very uncomfortable passage of scripture. At first reading, it sounds a bit like God has created some people with the intent of sending them to hell with no chance at repentance. This sounds like a terrible motive for a loving God. How do… Read More »

Read the Word: Proverbs 8:1-21 Meditate on the Word: In our current day and time, we have ready access to more knowledge than ever before in our lives. Yet, there is no corresponding increase of wisdom in society. In fact, it seems that wisdom is an increasingly rare commodity. While wisdom still calls out to… Read More »

Read the Word: Acts 5:33-42 Meditate on the Word: Israel had been looking for the Messiah for centuries, yet when He came, they rejected Him. Gamaliel gives us an interesting perspective on the issue. He mentions Theudas and Judas the Galilean as those who had risen up, gathered a following, then were killed and came… Read More »

Read the Word: Jonah 3:1-10 Meditate on the Word: I always am amazed by the fact that an unwilling preacher could go to a place such as the notoriously evil Nineveh, preach a simple message of destruction without providing any hope, and still yield amazing results. This does not seem possible, and indeed with man… Read More »

Read the Word: 2 Peter 3:1-7 Meditate on the Word: Most people have some sort of mental picture of the End Times. Various world religions have eschatological views, including Buddhism, Islam, and Hinduism. It seems that even amongst those who do not know God, there is a sense that this world as it exists is… Read More »

Read the Word: Psalm 62:5-12 Meditate on the Word: Do you ever have those days when you just feel too exhausted and unmotivated? Like you lack the strength to even get through the day? Like if one more thing happens, you will just break? I’m sure that most of us are familiar with that feeling.… Read More »

Read the Word: 1 Corinthians 6:12-20 Meditate on the Word: We have been looking closer at this passage this week for a reason. We live in a culture that encourages, glorifies, and celebrates sexual sin. We who know the truth of the gospel must necessarily look at this topic differently than the world. We must… Read More »