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Prepared for Burial

Read: Mark 14:1-11 She has done a beautiful thing to me. (v. 6) Sometime during the meal, a woman came in. She brought a bottle of perfume, likely the most valuable item she owned, worth up to a year’s wages. She took it, broke the jar, and poured it on Jesus’s head (v. 3). Those gathered with […]

Take Up Your Cross

Read: Matthew 16:21-26 Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. (v. 24 NIV) What does it look like to follow Jesus? Peter was confident he knew how to follow Jesus. Chosen and called to follow Jesus (Matt. 4:19), Peter had spent every waking moment with him. […]

Running Where Jesus Ran

Read: Hebrews 12:1-3 Looking to Jesus . . . (v. 2) Where do you look when you’re running? You could look behind you, where you’ve already run, but if you do, you might trip. You could look to the side at the sights around you, or even down at your feet, but you might bump into someone or […]

Nothing Will Separate Us

Read: Romans 8:31-39 [Nothing] will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. (v. 39) The first thing humankind did after disobeying God in the Garden of Eden was to hide. Initially Adam and Eve hid from one another, “They sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths” (Gen. […]

God Is for Us

Read: Romans 8:31-39 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?” (v. 31) The Bible uses several different prepositions to qualify God’s relationship with his people. The angel said Jesus should be called “Immanuel, (which means, God with us)” (Matt. 1:23). John describes God’s incarnation in […]

Saved in Hope

Read: Romans 8:18-25 For in this hope we were saved. (v. 24) Hope is one of the great words of the Christian faith, but it tends to be overused and misused and so has lost some of its force. We tend to use the word “hope” as if it meant wishful thinking. “I hope my team […]

Physical Redemption

Read: Romans 8:18-25 The redemption of our bodies. (v. 23) The bodily resurrection of Jesus is the foundation of the Christian faith. Everything we believe and hope for depends on the fact that Jesus’s physical body rose from the grave. Paul puts it plainly: “If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you […]

March 2024 Prayer Guide

ENGLISH — Words of Hope is making the Easter devotionals from the daily devotional available as a free downloadable resource. This resource is being advertised widely. Pray with us that new people would discover this devotional set, and that they would be challenged to grow in their faith as a result. The series is titled, […]

New Creation

Read: Romans 8:18-25 The creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. (v. 21) The effects of sin in the world go far deeper than simply distorting our ability to choose well when confronted with decisions on how to live. They […]