Narrow Pathways

Devotional

Week of April 21, 2024 (To read the devotional click on the topic heading) >Health problems have prevented me from posting. I suggest that you read devotionals listed in the Index.<

Monday

OBEDIENCE

13 Enter through the narrow gate, for the gate is wide and the road is easy that leads to destruction, and there are many who take it. 14 For the gate is narrow and the road is hard that leads to life, and there are few who find it. Matthew 7:13-14 (NRSV) STORY The Didache, which in Greek means “Teaching,” is also called the Teaching of the Twelve Apostles. It is the oldest surviving document that we have that outlines the theology and organizational structure of the church. It was composed by the Apostolic Fathers, who were the core Christian theologians of the early…
Tuesday

BIBLE

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: 2 Timothy 3:16 (KJV) Devotion In 1874, William Mitchell Ramsey was appointed as the professor of classical art and archaeology at Oxford University. His earlier education centered on the Tübingen School of biblical interpretation. This academic approach to the scriptures maintained that the Book of Acts was composed in the second century, and therefore was not a reliable account of the missionary journeys of Paul as recorded by Luke. Maintaining that Acts was a second century composition, Ramsey considered…
Wednesday

CHRISTOLOGICAL TITLES – SUFFERING SERVANT

“Eighty-six years I have served Christ, and he never did me any wrong. How can I blaspheme my king who saved me?” This is considered one of the most important confessions in the history of Christendom. It was spoken by Polycarp as his last opportunity to recant before being executed as a subservient of the state. Though thousands of Christians met a similar fate and must be duly recognized for their steadfastness, Polycarp, because of his position in the church and his chronological age at the time of his death, has decorously received special recognition. His family converted to Christianity…
Thursday

COMMUNITY

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation, for in] him all things in heaven and on earth were created, things visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or powers—all things have been created through him and for him. He himself is before all things, and in him all things hold together. He is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he might come to have first place in everything. For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him God was pleased to reconcile…
Friday

NEW BEGINNINGS

When God began to create the heavens and the earth, the earth was complete chaos, and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters. Then God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good, and God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. Genesis 1:1-5 Devotion World War I was also called “The Great War.” Most lasting though is the phrase that…