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Daily Devotion Archive
God’s Word for You – Galatians 1:9 Beside what you received
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUGALATIANS 1:9 Click to listen to this devotion. 9 As we have said before, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel beside what you received, we must curse him! In verse 8, Paul proposed one improbable and one impossible setting: that Paul himself, or even an […]
God’s Word for You – Song of Solomon 5:2 He knocks
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUSONG OF SOLOMON 5:2 Click to listen to this devotion. The Wife Speaks 2 I was asleep but my heart was awake.A sound! My lover is knocking. This might have been a better chapter break than verse 1. Here we begin a strange interlude; perhaps the most difficult part of the book […]
God’s Word for You – Song of Solomon 5:1 Encouragement
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUSONG OF SOLOMON 5:1 Click to listen to this devotion. The Husband Speaks 5:1 I have come into my garden, my sister, O bride.I have gathered my myrrh with my spice.I have eaten my honeycomb and my honey.I have drunk my wine and my milk. We should perhaps ignore that there is […]
God’s Word for You – Galatians 1:8 Anathema
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUGALATIANS 1:8 Click to listen to this devotion. 8 But even if we or an angel from heaven would preach any gospel alongside the one we preached to you– we must curse him! Verse 9 will express a similar thought. The difference is that here, the “improbable if not incredible” occurrence (“even […]
God’s Word for You – Galatians 1:7b The twisting of the gospel
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUGALATIANS 1:7b Click to listen to this devotion. But there are some who are stirring you up and who want to twist the gospel of Christ. Crowds of Jews did something like this when Paul was preaching in Berea, over in Greece. “They went there, too, agitating the crowds and stirring them […]
God’s Word for You – Galatians 1:6-7a No other gospel
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUGALATIANS 1:6-7a Click to listen to this devotion. 6 I am astonished that you are being turned away so quickly from the one who called you (purely by the grace of Christ) to another gospel, 7 which is really no gospel at all. Here Paul begins the main body of the letter […]
God’s Word for You – Galatians 1:4-5 The gospel
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUGALATIANS 1:4-5 Click to listen to this devotion. 4 He gave himself for our sins in order to rescue us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father– 5 to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen. Having highlighted the divinity of Jesus, Paul quickly […]
God’s Word for You – Galatians 1:3 Grace and peace
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUGALATIANS 1:3 Click to listen to this devotion. 3 Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. Grace, quite simply, is God’s love, the love that man does not deserve. But grace comes anyway because God loves; not because man is worthy of love. Grace is […]
God’s Word for You – Galatians 1:1-2 The Apostle of Christ
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUGALATIANS 1:1-2 Click to listen to this devotion. 1:1 Paul, an apostle– not from men, nor through a man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead– 2 and all of the brothers who are with me, To the churches of Galatia: Ancient letters began by […]
God’s Word for You – Galatians Introduction
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUGALATIANS INTRODUCTION Click to listen to this devotion. G A L A T I A N S This autumn will mark the 25th anniversary of these “God’s Word for You” devotions (1270 weeks so far). I began in 1999 with a series on Galatians for a dozen readers, and I would very […]
God’s Word for You – 1 Chronicles 29:26-30 The End of David’s Reign
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU1 CHRONICLES 29:26-30 Click to listen to this devotion. 26 David son of Jesse had been king over all Israel. 27 He was king over Israel for forty years: seven years in Hebron and thirty-three years in Jerusalem. 28 He died at a good old age, full of days, and wealth, and […]
God’s Word for You – 1 Chronicles 28:19-21 Divine Inspiration
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU1 CHRONICLES 28:19-21 Click to listen to this devotion. 19 “All this,” David said, “I have in writing from the hand of the LORD upon me to give me understanding in all the details of the plan.” In this remarkable verse, David describes the act of divine inspiration. For Moses, the first […]
