Devotionals
You Will Receive Power
Read: Acts 1:1-11 As they were looking on, he was lifted up. (v. 9) The account of Jesus’s ascension feels like a brief interlude between far more important biblical events.
Ben Van Arragon September 3, 2025
Read: Acts 1:1-11 As they were looking on, he was lifted up. (v. 9) The account of Jesus’s ascension feels like a brief interlude between far more important biblical events.
Read: Matthew 1:1-17 Mary was the mother of Jesus who is called the Messiah. (v. 16 NIV) Thanks to online resources, more people than ever are researching their ancestry. A
Read: Acts 9:1-25 . . . lowering him in a basket. (v. 25) Did the unnamed disciples of Saul (later called Paul) know how important the man in the basket
Read: Matthew 1:18-25 He did as the angel of the Lord commanded. (v. 24) What do you do when life lands a punch that takes your breath away? Maybe you’re
Read: Joshua 2:1-15 She let them down by a rope through the window. (v. 15) News feeds seem to populate with stories of the rich and powerful. It feels at
Read: Exodus 2:1-10 She took for him a basket made of bulrushes. (v. 3) “Pull yourself up by your bootstraps” has become an American proverb exhorting people to advance themselves
Read: Revelation 21:1-6 To the thirsty I will give water as a gift from the spring of the water of life. (v. 6 NRSV) The vision is mind-boggling. John the
Read: 1 John 5:6-8 This is the one who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ. (v. 6 NRSV) The one who came by water. Baptism. The one who came
Read: Galatians 3:23-29 As many of you as were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. (v. 27 NRSV) In this passage from his great letter on Christian freedom,