April 4, 2022 | Jeremiah 5:20–31 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue Digging into our sin is like peeling an onion. We’re never done—there always seems to be another layer. And the more layers are revealed, the more we recognize the depths of our sinfulness and our inability to help ourselves. As Jeremiah said later in the […]
August 10, 2021 | Hosea 4:15–19 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue What should a church do when a member is pursuing sin? The New Testament teaches that an individual should approach the brother or sister one-on-one. “If they listen to you, you have won them over” (Matt. 18:15). If they do not listen, two or three […]
July 26, 2021 | 1 Corinthians 5 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue Jesus Christ is both our Good Shepherd and the perfect Lamb of God, sacrificed for our salvation. While under the Mosaic Law animals had to be sacrificed over and over, our Lord Jesus became the perfect Sacrifice who paid that price once for all […]
February 11, 2021 | Romans 6:1–23 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue Juneteenth commemorates the day that Union General Gordon Granger announced to former slaves in Galveston, Texas, that the Civil War had ended, and they were free. The announcement came two and a half years after Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This was life-changing good […]
SIN’S DOWNWARD SPIRAL February 2, 2021 | Romans 1:18-22 Devotion One of the most famous sermons preached by 18th-century pastor and theologian Jonathan Edwards was titled “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.” Edwards said that the sermon was “attended with many impressions upon the hearers.” Some, who felt convicted of their sin, cried […]
July 13, 2020 | Joshua 7:1–19 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue Joy filled the air. The Israelites were swapping stories about the destruction of Jericho when they received awful news. The nearly 3,000 men who had been sent to overtake the city of Ai had been routed. This had to be a stunning turnaround for the […]
June 18, 2020 | Joshua 7 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue One of the most common “hidden” sins of our time is pornography. Research says it accounts for at least 30 percent of all data transferred across the Internet. In 2018, more than 5.5 billion hours of pornography were consumed by one website alone. Every month, […]
WHEN SIN CROUCHES AT YOUR DOOR March 17, 2020 | Genesis 4:1–16 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue We have quite a few expressions in the English language that involve doors. An opportunity is often called an “open door.” If “opportunity is knocking” at your door, a response is needed. If you encounter a small opportunity, you […]