Category: Devotionals

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Marked as God’s Own Forever

Read: Ephesians 1:11-14 In him you also . . . were marked with the seal of the promised Holy Spirit. (v. 13 NRSV) The words flew like a dart to

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God the Grace-filled Gatherer

Read: Ephesians 1:1-10 He has made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure that he set forth in Christ, as a plan for the

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Homecoming after Exile

Read: Isaiah 54:1-10 But my steadfast love shall not depart from you. (v. 10 NRSV) One cultural observer describes life today as “coping with the flux.” Our age is characterized

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The Power of the Written Word

Read: Esther 9-10 [These days were] turned for them from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into a holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, days

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The Battle Is Not Done

Read: Esther 8 For how can I bear to see the calamity that is coming to my people? Or how can I bear to see the destruction of my kindred?

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Esther Argues Her Case

Read: Esther 7 Then Queen Esther answered, “If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be granted me for

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No Rest for the Wicked

Read: Esther 6:4-14 Then the king said to Haman, “Hurry; take the robes and the horse, as you have said, and do so to Mordecai the Jew, who sits at

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Sleepless in Susa

Read: Esther 5:6:1-3 On that night the king could not sleep. And he gave orders to bring the book of memorable deeds, the chronicles, and they were read before the

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Haman Gets Indigestion

Read: Esther 5:9-14 Yet all this is worth nothing to me, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate. (v. 14) Some people are just