Devotional
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Daily Readings: 1 Thessalonians 1-2 and Psalm 148 In about 50AD, Paul wrote to the young Church in Thessalonica to encourage them. They had recently experienced death among their membership (possibly due to persecution), so Paul wrote to encourage them and to remind them of our Christian hope and assurance of life even after death.…
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Daily Readings: Colossians 3-4 and Psalm 147 Yesterday we reflected on how Colossians 1-2 reveals the glories of Christ our Lord and what He has accomplished for us, His beloved people. We were encouraged to think, throughout the day, about how we could more fully reveal the glory of Jesus Christ in every action and…
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Daily Readings: Colossians 1-2 and Psalm 146 The apostle Paul wrote a letter to Christians living in the small city of Colossae while he was in prison in Rome. His point in writing it was to encourage them with the wonderful truth about their Lord Jesus Christ. Chapters 1-2 are filled with revelation about the…
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Daily Readings: Philippians 3-4 and Psalm 145 Our world is filled with reasons to be anxious. Violence, crime, corruption, conflict, broken marriages and families, poverty, sickness, economic gloom; the list goes on and on. The Philippians faced most of these issues, but they could add persecution and potential martyrdom to their list too. From his…
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Daily Readings: Philippians 1-2 and Psalm 144 In about 62AD, while imprisoned in Rome, Paul wrote his letter to the Philippian Christians to encourage them, reassure them and thank them for their support. Chapters 1 and 2 are filled with beautiful and powerful statements about the faithful Christian life, and the ancient hymn recorded in…
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Daily Readings: Ephesians 6 and Psalm 143 10 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Ephesians 6:10-20 portrays the Christian life as a spiritual battle in which our spiritual enemy, the ‘Adversary’, ‘Satan’, comes against the Kingdom Family of God on multiple fronts. He attacked the Ephesians through false teaching, temptation to…
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Daily Readings: Ephesians 5 and Psalm 14 1 Follow God’s example … 2 and live a life of love … 3 But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God’s holy people. As in the days of the early…
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Daily Readings: Ephesians 4 and Psalm 141 On Friday, in reflecting on Ephesians 3, I invited you to … “Imagine when we are empowered to encounter this love not only inwardly and individually by the Spirit, but also as it overflows between us in loving relationship too. Imagine when each member becomes an instrument of…
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Daily Readings: Ephesians 3 and Psalm 140 16 I pray that out of his glorious riches He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the Lord’s…
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Daaily Readings: Ephesians 2 and Psalm 139 In Ephesians 2, “the incomparable riches of God’s grace” are celebrated. We are reminded that, before God intervened, we were physically alive but spiritually separated from God. We were spiritually “dead in our transgressions and sin” and thoroughly deserving of God’s judgment. We had done absolutely nothing to…
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