WHO IS IN CONTROL? February 6, 2020 | Esther 2:8–11 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue It is easy to feel, when life is going well, that we have the world by the tail. We seem to be in control of our life. But other times, we feel helpless. Life seems to happen to us, and in […]
February 5, 2020 | Esther 2:5–7 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue Have you ever found yourself in a new place, forced to navigate within a different culture? Today, we meet Esther as she is about to leave the Hebrew world where she was raised and enter the decadent Persian world into which she has been thrust. […]
THE PLANS OF THE POWERFUL February 4, 2020 | Esther 2:1–4 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue Have you ever been anxious to see God intervene in a difficult situation? It can be frustrating when it seems like God is not acting as quickly as we’d like. In Esther chapter 2, we see the stage being set […]
February 3, 2020 | Esther 1:13–22 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue When we use a “slippery slope argument,” we assert that a relatively small event will launch an inevitable chain of increasingly worse events that will ultimately end in disaster. The problem is that the slippery slope argument isn’t sound reasoning; rather, it is a logical […]
February 2, 2020 | Esther 1:9–12 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue In literature, the “inciting incident” is an event that captures the reader’s attention and moves the story forward. Today, we read about the inciting incident in Esther’s story. Praise be to the name of God for ever and ever; wisdom and power are his. He […]
January 31, 2020 | Hebrews 13:20–25 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue This month we have been inspired by the examples of fellow believers. Each of them was committed to reading God’s Word and understood its transformative power. Evangelist Dwight Lyman Moody often said, “The Bible was not given to increase our knowledge, but to change our […]
January 30, 2020 | Acts 10:23–48 DEVOTIONS. This Month’s Issue Mary McLeod Bethune was the 15th of 17 children, the first of her parent’s children born out of slavery. Mary attended Moody Bible Institute in 1895, where she prepared for missionary service to Africa. Unfortunately, her application was denied by a mission board because of […]
GLORIFYING GOD NO MATTER WHAT January 27, 2020 | 1 Corinthians 9:19–27 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue Through her ministry, Joni & Friends, Joni Eareckson Tada shares the hope of the gospel and gives practical help to people impacted by disability. Her passion comes from personal experience. In 1967, at age 17, Joni took a dive […]
January 26, 2020 | John 16:25–33 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue Moody’s seventh president, Joseph M. Stowell, received plenty of attention growing up as a pastor’s kid. However, he admits it was not always the good kind of notoriety. Congregants expected the young Stowell to stand up straight and be an example. The young Joe would […]
BLOOD-BOUGHT GRACE January 25, 2020 | Romans 8:28–39 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue John Piper, author, speaker, and pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, is known for his passion and zeal. Recently, he spoke on his favorite verse in the Bible, Romans 8:32. “When all is said and done, we owe every good in our […]