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Daily Devotion Archive
God’s Word for You – Galatians 1:14 Traditions
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUGALATIANS 1:14 Click to listen to this devotion. 14 I was advancing in Judaism beyond many my age among my own people and I was extremely zealous for the traditions of my fathers. Paul is describing his life in those days of his youth, all through his twenties, when he was a […]
God’s Word for You – Galatians 1:13 Paul the Persecutor
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUGALATIANS 1:13 Click to listen to this devotion. 13 For you have heard of my former way of life in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God beyond measure and tried to destroy it. Fourteen years of Paul’s life had by now been spent as a Christian, but for something like […]
God’s Word for You – Galatians 1:11-12 A revelation
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUGALATIANS 1:11-12 Click to listen to this devotion. 11 I want you to know, brothers, that the gospel I preached is not something from man. 12 For I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it; rather, I received it through a revelation from Jesus Christ. The Galatians […]
God’s Word for You – Galatians 1:10 A servant of Christ
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUGALATIANS 1:10 Click to listen to this devotion. 10 In fact, am I now looking for approval from men, or from God? Or am I trying to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ. Here Paul moves to a new thought, […]
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 […]
