“So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you.” (John 16:22)
We have sorrows in this life as well as joys. Solomon reflected on this nature of the fallen creation when he said, “there is an...
“He [God] puts no trust even in His servants; and against His angels He charges error” (Job 4:18).
Satan likely inspires all sin upon the earth to “justify” his sin before God, thinking to demonstrate God’s folly in bequeathing the coming world to mankind (instead...
Our Memory Verse for this week comes from Proverbs 25:28. The Memory Verse for the Devotional this Friday is the sixth and final in our series looking at Peter's question, "what sort of people ought you to be" as a Christian, especially since everything in this world is destined for...
“At the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, ‘Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?’ which is translated, ‘My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?’” (Mark 15:34 NASB).
Jesus had never been separated from His Father. He told the Jews, “I and...
Our Memory Verse for this week comes from Mark 15. This verse records the moment commonly understood to be when the Holy, Heavenly Father forsook His Son as Jesus took responsibility for all the sins of the world - the moment my sin and your sin covered His sinless nature. The last...
Our Memory Verse for this week comes from 1 Peter, where we continue our look at connections between temptation, persecution, and suffering. This week, we want to look at suffering specifically. Why do we suffer in this life? Where does all the pain and suffering come...
“If the foundations are destroyed, What can the righteous do?” (Psalm 11:3)
We’re living in a time when the world is trying to change the context of what it means to be alive in a way we have never seen before. Man is steadily working to bury the foundational...
Our Memory Verse for this week comes from Proverbs, where we see that we should not trust in our own minds, but that we must put all our trust and hope in the grace of God. Unfortunately, many churches and ministries preach a "self-help" or "self-improvement" gospel, in which we are to "work out...
Our Memory Verse for this week comes from John chapter 3 where John the Baptist's disciples were worried that Jesus was "stealing" their thunder, cutting into John's ministry, and drawing people away from him. While his followers were worried about John's reputation and his "brand," John...
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