February 9, 2022 | Philippians 2: 7-8 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue English Reformer Miles Coverdale described the essence of Christ’s humility in this couplet: “For our sake made he himself small/That reigns Lord and king over all.” The order is important. Jesus already existed as “Lord and king over all” when He was born in […]
February 8, 2022 | Philippians 2:5-6 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue when I am sitting quietly, my wife will smile and tell me what I am thinking. She is almost always right. We truly know someone when we understand the way they think. In today’s passage, Paul opens a window into the mind of Christ and […]
February 7, 2022 |Philippians 2:1-4 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue William Carey, pioneer missionary to India, said: “Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God.” The key phrase in the second half of this saying is “for God.” Sometimes our spiritual ambitions are more focused on ourselves than on God. In the previous chapter […]
February 6, 2022 | Philippians 1:27-30 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue When Martha’s pastor visited her in the hospital, she assured him that she wasn’t afraid. “I’m ready to die,” she said. “I’m glad to hear that,” he replied. “But what if you recover? Are you also ready to live?” Conduct yourselves in a manner worthy […]
February 5, 2022 | Philippians 1:19-26 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue Recently a friend posted on her blog that she had been diagnosed with incurable cancer. “Yes, I might have incurable cancer,” she wrote. “But I also have incurable life—I had life before cancer, I have life now with incurable cancer, and I will have life […]
February 4, 2022 | Philippians 1:12-18 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue Some churches approach ministry like they are planning a marketing campaign. They talk about platforms and branding. They use social media to create a positive public image. The more people who know about the church, the better their image and the more successful they […]
February 3, 2022 | Philippians 1:9-11 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue Many parents love to track the growth of their children by marking their height each year on their birthday. But is it possible to measure our growth as believers? More importantly, how does spiritual growth take place? And this is my prayer: that your love […]
February 2, 2022 | Philippians 1:7-8 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue Minutes after my wife Jane and I pulled into the driveway of the church parsonage in our rental van loaded with all our worldly possessions, church members appeared to help unload it. I remember seeing their faces for the first time. They were all strangers […]
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 […]