July 25, 2022 | Proverbs 15 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue College professors are often asked to write recommendation letters for their students. In addition, many companies ask the professor to fill out a form that ranks the candidate in various areas; one being “teachability.” They want to know if your former student was humble and […]
July 16, 2022 | Proverbs 5:1–23 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue We often say that we love all sorts of things. We love books, songs, shirts, movies, coffee, pizza, dogs, a sports team, or our spouses. It can be confusing when we use the same word to talk about two radically different things. After all, we […]
April 12, 2022 | Jeremiah 20:7–18 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue The famous artist Donatello completed a life-size marble sculpture of the prophet Jeremiah in 1427. If you visited the museum in Florence, Italy, you’d note that Jeremiah looks fatigued, even exhausted. His face suggests profound sadness and frustration as well as a hint of inner […]
I woke up at 10am, had my bath and prepared breakfast ( Lemon tea + Tuna and bread + spaghetti with vegetables and meat). After taking breakfast, I helped mum in the garden (swept all the fallen leaves and with the help of a wheelbarrow, I transported them to the dumping site). Around 3:00pm, […]
February 13, 2022 | Philippians 2:17-18 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue When you think of Old Testament sacrifices, you probably think of animals. And it’s true! God’s people worshiped Him by offering lambs, bulls, and sometimes even doves or pigeons. But they also worshiped with other kinds of sacrifices, including grain in the form of flour […]
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 […]
August 11, 2021 | Hosea 5:1–7 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue Have you ever been present in a courtroom when a bailiff says, “All rise,” just before the judge enters the room? Everyone in attendance stands to attention, out of respect—for the judge and for the law. Today’s passage begins with a similar proclamation. “Hear, you […]
July 1, 2021 | Psalm 23 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue According to one Bible app, the most popular verse of 2020 was Isaiah 41:10: “Do not fear, for I am with you.” In 2019, it was Philippians 4:6: “Do not be anxious about anything.” In 2018, it was also Isaiah 41:10, and in 2017, it […]
June 17, 2021 | Psalm 90 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue From the fountain of youth to the philosopher’s stone, humans have long been obsessed with finding a way to cheat death and achieve immortality. For most people, the solution to the problem of death is to just not think about it, to live life as […]