Category: Devotionals

Devotionals

How Long?

Read: Revelation 6:9-11 How long before you will judge and avenge our blood? (v. 10) Walking through the old market district of a city in eastern Turkey, my guide mentioned

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Jesus’s Other Sheep

Read: John 10:14-30 My sheep hear my voice . . . and they follow me. (v. 27) Who are the “other sheep” to whom Jesus refers (v. 16)? They are

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Faith Comes by Hearing

Read: 1 Thessalonians 2:9-13 Faith comes from hearing . . . the word of Christ. (Rom. 10:17) So here is how the gospel works. As Christians share the gospel, some

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Blessed Are the Persecuted

Read: Luke 6:20-23 Blessed are you when people hate you . . . and revile you . . . on account of the Son of Man! (v. 22) “Blessing” and

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The Blood of the Martyrs

Read: Revelation 12:7-17 They have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death. (v.

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Faithful Witness

Read: Acts 7:54-60; Revelation 2:12-13 Antipas my faithful witness, who was killed among you. (Rev. 2:13) There is often a high cost for being “not ashamed of the gospel.” On

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Son of God

Read: Matthew 3:13-17 Behold, a voice from heaven said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.” (v. 17) For more than three decades now, I’ve kept

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Son of Mary

Read: Luke 2:4-19 Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary? (Mark 6:3) Sometimes, I send my children the pictures I took of them years ago. My kids roll

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Son of David, Son of Abraham

Read: 2 Samuel 7:8-16 The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. (Matt. 1:1) I once asked a group of students to