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Daily Devotion Archive
God’s Word for You – Mark 7:29-30 The demon has gone out
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU MARK 7:29-30 29 Then he said to her, “Because of what you have said, go home! The demon has gone out of your daughter.” When we train a pet dog, we don’t reward the dog for snatching a morsel from us before we give it. In fact, that would merit a […]
God’s Word for You – Mark 7:27-28 The pet dogs under the table also eat
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU MARK 7:27-28 27 Jesus said to her, “First let the children eat their fill, because it is not good to take bread from the children and throw it to their little pet dogs.” Everything Jesus has done so far in Mark’s Gospel has been ministry among the Jews of Galilee and […]
God’s Word for You – Mark 7:24-26 The Syro-Phoenician woman
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU MARK 7:24-26 24 Jesus left there and went to the region of Tyre and Sidon. Immediately after his pronouncement that what was unclean under the Law of Moses is now clean under the Gospel of Christ, Jesus heads into a pagan country, Lebanon, with its chief cities of Tyre and Sidon. […]
God’s Word for You – Colossians 4:7-8 Tychicus will tell you
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU COLOSSIANS 4:7-8 The closing verses of the letter introduce Tychicus and Onesimus (4:7-9). Paul sends greetings from the Jews who are with him (4:10-11) and the Gentiles (4:12-14), and he asks for his own greetings to be passed along to the church at Laodicea and the one meeting at the house […]
God’s Word for You – Mark 7:20-23 All these evils
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU MARK 7:20-23 20 Jesus went on: “What comes out of a man is what makes him unclean. 21 For from within, out of men’s hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, 22 adultery, coveting, wickedness, treachery, sexual indecency, jealousy, blasphemy, arrogance and folly. 23 All these evils come from inside […]
God’s Word for You – Mark 7:14-19 All foods are ceremonially clean
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU MARK 7:14-19 14 “Listen to me, everyone!” Jesus said, calling the crowd to himself once again. “Understand this: 15 There is nothing outside a man that can make him unclean by going into him. But the things that come out of a man are what makes him unclean. 16 If anyone […]
God’s Word for You – Mark 7:9-13 Corban
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU MARK 7:9-13 9 And he said to them: “You do a good job of setting aside the commands of God in order to keep your own traditions! 10 For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’ 11 […]
God’s Word for You – Mark 7:5-8 Hypocrites
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU MARK 7:5-8 5 So the Pharisees and scribes asked Jesus, “Why don’t your disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders instead of eating their bread with unclean hands?” The key word in verse 5 is “elders” (πρεσβυτέρων). The scribes were so certain that they had caught Jesus in an […]
God’s Word for You – Mark 7:1-4 pitchers, kettles, and dining couches
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU I beg the reader’s indulgence as we turn to one chapter of Mark’s Gospel. I will not neglect our devotions on Acts for much longer. MARK 7:1-4 Clean and Unclean 7 The Pharisees and certain scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus. 2 They saw some of his disciples […]
God’s Wisdom for You – Proverbs 31:8-9 Speak up for those who cannot speak
GOD’S WISDOM FOR YOU PROVERBS 31:8-9 8 Speak up for those who cannot speak. Speak for the cause of all who are left behind. 9 Speak up, judge fairly. Defend the oppressed and the needy. We will take up these five statements individually. 8a. Speak up for those who cannot speak. Not all […]
God’s Wisdom for You – Proverbs 31:4-7 Someone whose soul is in distress
GOD’S WISDOM FOR YOU PROVERBS 31:4-7 The next four verses are not all of what the Bible has to say about beer and wine, but they are as important as any other passage. There are many warnings. Paul says: “Those who live [in drunkenness] will not inherit the kingdom of God” (Galatians 5:19-21). And Jesus […]
God’s Wisdom for You – Proverbs 31:1-3 His mother taught him
GOD’S WISDOM FOR YOU Since I have completed most of Proverbs 31, we may as well take in the opening verses of the chapter here. PROVERBS 31:1-3 1 The sayings of Lemuel, a king. An oracle that his mother taught him: Lemuel is not a name that we see anywhere else in the Bible. […]
