April 24, 2021 | Luke 18:9–14 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue One of the easiest traps we can fall into is the Comparison Trap. We look at the lives of others and begin comparing ourselves to them. Sometimes we are jealous, sometimes we look down on others, for who they are or the way they live […]
November 27, 2020 | Acts 25:1–27 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue Did you know you are a citizen of not one but two kingdoms? Martin Luther observed that we are in kingdoms of Earth and of heaven. In the heavenly kingdom, God rules perfectly. In the earthly, God has delegated authority to rulers who often exercise […]
September 2, 2020 | 1 Samuel 2:12–36 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue In recent days it seems as if news headlines are filled with stories about church leaders whose behavior has shocked believers and unbelievers alike. Unfortunately, these kinds of failures are not new. Today’s text contrasts the scandal caused by Eli’s sons with the simple […]
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. […]