Series: Devotion

“Focusing on Something Better” Galatians 5:16-25 But I say, walk… read more

“Quietness and Care” 1 Kings 19:9b-13 And behold, the word… read more

After all, they had been living with a man possessed by demons for a long time. Any time they went outside the city, there was a risk that they would run into him—naked, tortured, strong, and out of his right mind. He even lived in a graveyard!

But for adults, it’s more complicated. For example, what should you do when a corrupt government official demands a $5,000 bribe before he will allow a young child to rejoin his family in America? Should you pay up? Should you refuse, and leave the child alone in that country? And what if you have no money anyway?

Give glory to the Name of God, my friend. He is God and there is no other. Give glory to Him and obey the Gospel. Believe in His great Son Jesus Christ and in the grace God offers you in Jesus Christ. Accept His forgiveness, and live His life.

“There is no salvation for him in God.” We may have heard similar comments in our culture today. Unbelievers may ridicule our faith as useless. From their point of view, our beliefs are merely a collection of outdated rules and myths. The Christian faith is thought to be just another religion among many

On this street corner alone, a thousand or more had gathered. But Peter didn’t just see a crowd. He saw faces, the lines of which told thousands of stories. Some, he knew. Others, he didn’t. But he wanted to. He wanted to know them all. And he wanted them to know Whom he knew.

We can fall into that trap too, can’t we? We trust in what we already know—in common sense, the voice of experience, the wisdom of the world. But God says to us, “Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?” (Isaiah 43:19a)

Let all the house of Israel therefore know for certain that God has made Him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.”