Devotional

Salvation 15 We ourselves are Jews by birth and not gentile sinners, 16 yet we know that a person is justified not by the works of the law but through the faith of Jesus Christ.[d] And we have come to believe in Christ Jesus, so that we might be justified by the faith of Christ[e] and not by doing the works of the law, because no one will be justified by the works of the law. Galatians 2:15-16 (NRSV)   STORY Martin Luther is recognized as the father of the Protestant Reformation. The Reformation took place in Germany in the sixteenth century. The movement began when…

Evil No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8:37-39 (NRV)   STORY The Exorcist, a movie that was released in 1973, is considered one of the scariest movies ever made. It is about Regan MacNeil, a 12-year-old girl, played by Linda Blair, who becomes possessed by Satan.…

Grace Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand, and we boast in our hope of sharing the glory of God. And not only that, but we also boast in our afflictions, knowing that affliction produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us. Romans 5:1-5 STORY Paul Hubbard was six years older than Luther Taylor, whose story…

Health 8 The Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with a terrifying display of power, and with signs and wonders; 9 and he brought us into this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey. 10 So now I bring the first of the fruit of the ground that you, O Lord, have given me.’ You shall set it down before the Lord your God and bow down before the Lord your God. Deuteronomy 26:1-11 (NRSV) STORY Oprah Gail Winfrey was born on January 29, 1954, in Kosciusko, Mississippi, to an unmarried teenage mother. Winfrey grew up in such…

Money Management 10 The lover of money will not be satisfied with money, nor the lover of wealth with gain. This also is vanity. Ecclesiastes 5:10 (NRSV) 16 Then he told them a parable: “The land of a rich man produced abundantly. 17 And he thought to himself, ‘What should I do, for I have no place to store my crops?’ 18 Then he said, ‘I will do this: I will pull down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. 19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years;…

Learning Happy are those who do not follow the advice of the wicked, or take the path that sinners tread, or sit in the seat of scoffers; but their delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law they meditate day and night. Psalm 1:1-2 (NRSV) Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6 (KJV) STORY A In Adam’s Fall: We sinned all. B Heaven to find; The Bible Mind. C Christ crucify’d; For sinners dy’d…. Z Zacchaeus he Did climb the Tree…

11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. 12 The hired hand, who is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and runs away, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them. 13 The hired hand runs away because a hired hand does not care for the sheep. 14 I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and my own know me, 15 just as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. And I lay down my life for the sheep. John 10: 11-15 (NRSV)   STORY Marin…