February 16, 2022 | Philippians 3:7-9 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue When my wife and I moved to a smaller home, we had to get rid of many things. It was hard to sort through what to keep and what to throw or give away. Some items were sentimental to us, like the toys our boys […]
January 31, 2022 | Matthew 11:25-30 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue “My dad pointed out to me something that Charles Spurgeon pointed out to him,” wrote pastor Dane Ortlund in Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers. “In the four Gospel accounts given to us in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John— eighty-nine […]
January 30, 2022 | Psalm 89:1-18 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue “Stop praying for stuff and start praying for God,” wrote pastor David Platt. “The primary point of prayer is not to get something—it’s to know Someone. When you go into your room, close the door, and pray to your Father who is in secret, there […]
January 28, 2022 | Mathew 9:9-13 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue Caravaggio’s masterpiece The Calling of Saint Matthew pictures Matthew as an older man engaged in counting money from his tax collecting. He has just realized Jesus is summoning him to become His disciple, and he’s pointing to himself as if to say, “Who, me?” […]
January 25, 2022 | Proverbs 1:1-9 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue In his 1644 essay “Of Education,” English poet John Milton explained the purpose of learning from a Christian perspective: “The end, then, of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to […]
January 13, 2022 |Deuteronomy 17:14-20 DEVOTIONS This Month’s issue The earliest printed collection of William Shakespeare’s plays appeared in 1623. Now called a First Folio, there are only 235 copies still in existence, and only 56 are complete or intact. In 2020, an intact copy was sold for a record-breaking price of nearly $10 million—it […]
January 12, 2022 | Deuteronomy 31:9-13 DEVOTIONS This Month’s issue The phrase Sola Scriptura means “Scripture alone.” This was one of the foundational principles of the Protestant Reformation. The Reformers believed that church tradition had been wrongly elevated to an equal position with God’s Word. Instead, the Bible should be given authority over the church. […]
January 11, 2022 | Proverbs 4:1-9 DEVOTIONS This Month’s issue Two immigrants to Australia found the world’s largest gold nugget! One day in 1869, one of them was digging around the roots of a tree when he discovered a gold “nugget” weighing an estimated 158 pounds. Called the “Welcome Stranger,” it was worth about $3 […]
January 5, 2022 | Acts 26 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue God called me back to school at age 40 to earn a Ph.D. I wasn’t entirely happy about it. I preferred learning on my own. Even in a good program with terrific professors, there were days I understood why some say that PHD means […]
January 3, 2022 | Ecclesiastes 12:9-14 DEVOTIONS This month’s Issue “Ecclesiastes is realistic,” wrote seminary professor Thomas Schreiner. “It teaches us that life under the sun is often empty, futile, and absurd, and yet it does not run us into the rocks of despair…When we understand that this world isn’t paradise on earth, we are […]