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Daily Devotion Archive
God’s Word for You – Mark 16:18 Snakes, poison, and demons
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUMARK 16:18 Click to listen to this devotion. 18 They will pick up snakes with their hands. If they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all. They will lay their hands on sick people, and they will get well.” Mark records three more miracles from our Lord’s own mouth. […]
God’s Word for You – Mark 16:17 demons and tongues
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUMARK 16:17 Click to listen to this devotion. 17 And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons. They will speak in new languages. Still speaking in Galilee, Jesus continued his comforting word to his apostles. He promised them signs, miracles, to accompany their preaching. […]
God’s Word for You – Mark 16:16 Only unbelief damns
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUMARK 16:16 Click to listen to this devotion. 16 Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. John 3:16 is sometimes called “the gospel in a nutshell.” Surely that is true, and just as surely this verse is “all of theology in a nutshell,” […]
God’s Word for You – Song of Solomon 4:1 Look at you!
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUSONG OF SOLOMON 4:1 Click to listen to this devotion. 4 Look at you! You are beautiful, my darling!Look at you! You are beautiful!Your eyes behind your veil are doves.Your hair is like a flock of goatsdescending from Mount Gilead. At last we have an answer to the problem that was raised […]
God’s Word for You – Song of Solomon 3:9-11 Christ and the Church
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUSONG OF SOLOMON 3:9-11 Click to listen to this devotion. 9 King Solomon made for himself the palanquin;he made it of wood from Lebanon. As we saw with verse 7, a palanquin (rhymes with “Martin Sheen”) is a covered chair or litter on poles, a sedan chair carried by four or more […]
God’s Word for You – Mark 16:15 The Great Commission
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUMARK 16:15 Click to listen to this devotion. 15 He also said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation. My opinion is that these words are Mark’s version of the Great Commission that Jesus gives in Matthew 28:19-20. Perhaps that one was given only to […]
God’s Word for You – Mark 16:14 The rebuke
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUMARK 16:14 Click to listen to this devotion. 14 Later Jesus appeared to the Eleven themselves as they were reclining to eat. He rebuked them for their unbelief and their stubbornness, since they did not believe those who had seen him after he had risen. This probably happened on Easter Sunday evening, […]
God’s Word for You – Mark 16:13 They did not believe them, either
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUMARK 16:13 Click to listen to this devotion. 13 They returned and reported to the rest, but they did not believe them, either. Can there be gospel in the doubt of the apostles? Human doubt mixed with fallen, flawed, sinful human reason can quickly become an internal liar; the very worst kind […]
God’s Word for You – Mark 16:12 Another form
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUMARK 16:12 Click to listen to this devotion. 12 After this, Jesus appeared in another form to two of them while they were walking in the country. Mark builds up the resurrection appearances and proclamation: First, the empty tomb, combined with the heraldry of an angel. Then Jesus appeared to Mary Magdalene. […]
God’s Word for You – Mark 16:10-11 Doubt
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUMARK 16:10-11 Click to listen to this devotion. 10 She went and told those who had been with him, while they were mourning and weeping. 11 When they heard that Jesus was alive and that he had been seen by her, they did not believe it. Mary went off to report to […]
God’s Word for You – Mark 16:9 He appeared
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUMARK 16:9 Click to listen to this devotion. 9 When Jesus rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had driven seven demons. From this point, Mark lists five resurrection appearances of Jesus. They come from each of what I think of […]
God’s Word for You – Mark 16:8 Trembling
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUMARK 16:8 Click to listen to this devotion. 8 The women went out and fled from the tomb. They were trembling and amazed. They said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid. Six actions are packed into this one verse; three or four are acts, and two or three are emotions. We […]
