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Daily Devotion Archive
God’s Word for You – Acts 5:41-42 The Name
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU ACTS 5:41-42 41 The apostles rejoiced as they left the Sanhedrin, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to be dishonored for the Name. 42 Every day, in the temple courts and from house to house, they never stopped teaching and proclaiming the gospel that Jesus is the Christ. The apostles were […]
God’s Word for You – Acts 5:33-40 Fighting against God
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU ACTS 5:33-40 33 When they heard this, they were furious and began planning to put them to death. 34 But a certain Pharisee, one in the Sanhedrin named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law who was highly respected by all the people, stood up and ordered that the men be put […]
God’s Word for You – Acts 5:30-32 God exalted him to his right hand
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU ACTS 5:30-32 30 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you arrested and killed by hanging him on a cross. 31 God exalted him to his right hand as Prince and Savior, to give to Israel repentance and the forgiveness of sins. 32 We are witnesses of these things, […]
God’s Word for You – Acts 5:29 We must obey God rather than men
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU ACTS 5:29 For personal reasons I left off our series on Acts more than a month ago. Thank you to all those who have sent my wife and me your encouragement in these weeks. Circumstances may cause another such departure sometime in the future, but for the time being, we return […]
God’s Word for You – Colossians 4:9-11 A comfort to me
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU COLOSSIANS 4:9-11 9 He is coming with Onesimus, our faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They will tell you everything that is happening here. 10 Aristarchus my fellow prisoner greets you, along with Mark the cousin of Barnabas. You have received instructions about him: If he comes to […]
God’s Word for You – Mark 7:33-37 Everything he has done is ‘very good.’
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU MARK 7:33-37 33 Jesus took him aside, away from the crowd, in private. He put his fingers into the man’s ears. Then he spit and touched the man’s tongue. 34 He looked up to heaven, sighed, and said, “Ephphatha!” (which means “Be opened!”) 35 Immediately the man’s ears were opened, his […]
God’s Word for You – Mark 7:31-32 They begged Jesus
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU MARK 7:31-32 31 Then Jesus left the area near Tyre and went through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee and into the region of the Decapolis. On a map, this seems like an unusual path to take to get back to Galilee. From the northwest, Jesus led his disciples further north […]
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 […]
