April 28, 2022 | Jeremiah 49:1–6 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue In one Avengers movie, the Hulk (a good guy) battles Loki (a bad guy). Loki shouts, “Enough!…I am a god, you dull creature,” but the Hulk slams him to the ground anyway. As he walks away, the Hulk smiles and mutters, “Puny god.” You trust […]
March 5, 2022 | Judges 4:1-10 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue Have you ever experienced this cycle? We sin, suffer, repent, and are reconciled, only to fall back into sin again. This pattern is played out again and again in the Old Testament. See now that I myself am he! There is no god besides me. […]
March 3, 2022 | Joshua 2:12-24 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue Biblical providence refers to God’s work of providing for the needs of His people. It is sometimes surprisingly miraculous and often seemingly simple. Always, it is deeply compassionate and a cause for gratitude. Today’s Scripture passage pulses with providence. What, then, shall we say in […]
March 2, 2022 | Joshua 2:1-11 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue Since World War II, the Force RECON branch of United States Marine Corps has completed information-gathering missions that can only be accomplished by soldiers on the ground. In today’s passage, Joshua initiated his own on-the-ground intelligence operation. Rather than running headlong into battle, he sent […]
February 22, 2022 | Philippians 4:4-7 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue Prayer is not rocket science. You just talk to God. What could be easier? But in practice, we may find praying to be more challenging than we expected. It is not like an ordinary conversation, where we can gauge God’s response by judging His facial […]
February 15, 2022 | Philippians 3:1-6 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue In today’s world, confidence is a positive trait. We want our children to be confident adults, so we tell them they are unique, above average, and destined for greatness. But Paul’s view, as he tells us in Philippians 3:1–6, is radically different. His confidence was […]
January 4, 2022 | Isaiah 44:24-28 DEVOTION This Month’s Issue Elisha and his servant woke up one morning to find their city surrounded by an impressive enemy army (2 Kings 6:15–17). “Oh no, my lord! What shall we do?” cried the servant. “Don’t be afraid,” the prophet answered. “Those who are with us are more […]
August 12, 2021 | Hosea 5:8–14 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue Author Flannery O’Connor once wrote that when you’re talking about faith to an unbelieving audience, “you have to make your vision apparent by shock—to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind, you draw large and startling figures.” Her story “Greenleaf” tells of […]
July 8, 2021 | John 1:29-42 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue In William Blake’s poem “The Lamb,” a child asks the small creature, “Dost thou know who made thee?” The answer is found in the second stanza: “He is calléd by thy name, For he calls himself a Lamb: He is meek and he is mild, […]
July 4, 2021 | Psalm 80 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue A famous hymn, often sung to a Welsh or Irish tune, celebrates God as our Shepherd: “The King of love my shepherd is, whose goodness faileth never. I nothing lack if I am his, and he is mine forever. Where streams of living water flow, […]