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Daily Devotion Archive
God’s Word for You – 1 Corinthians 15:29 Baptized for the dead?
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU1 CORINTHIANS 15:29 Click to listen to this devotion. 29 Otherwise, what will those people do who are baptized on behalf of the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized for them? Paul takes on some of the elegance of a dancer or a figure skater […]
God’s Word for You – 1 Corinthians 15:27-28 All in all
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU1 CORINTHIANS 15:27-28 Click to listen to this devotion. 27 For “He has put everything under his feet.” But when it says, “everything is put under him,” clearly this does not include the one who put everything under him. 28 When everything is under him, then the Son himself will also be […]
God’s Word for You – 1 Corinthians 15:25-26 The last enemy
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU1 CORINTHIANS 15:25-26 Click to listen to this devotion. 25 For he must reign “until he has put all his enemies under his feet.” 26 The last enemy to be done away with is death. It’s usual for most of us to have a final goal in mind when we begin a […]
God’s Word for You – 1 Corinthians 15:22-24 Then comes the end
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU1 CORINTHIANS 15:22-24 Click to listen to this devotion. Today’s devotion may seem more technical to some, and in this case I feel it’s important to explain some things as precisely as time allows, but I want very much to make a clear point, or as Paul says, “a clear trumpet call.” […]
God’s Word for You – Susanna 1:25-29 They bore false witness
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUSUSANNA 1:25-29 Click to listen to this devotion. We are continuing the apocryphal account of Susanna, who now has refused the indecent and sinful advances of two of Israel’s elders, and is now going to be accused by them of having a rendezvous with a doubly fictional “young man.” 25 Then one […]
God’s Word for You – Susanna 1:22-24 Susanna shouts
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUSUSANNA 1:22-24 Click to listen to this devotion. 22 Susanna groaned and said, “I am hemmed in on every side. If I do this, it will mean death for me. If I resist, I cannot escape your hands. 23 I choose not to do it! I will fall into your hands rather […]
God’s Word for You – 1 Corinthians 15:20-21 Christ has been raised
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU1 CORINTHIANS 15:20-21 Click to listen to this devotion. 20 But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. 21 For since death was by a man, so also by a man is the resurrection of the dead. Paul doesn’t have any more […]
God’s Word for You – 1 Corinthians 15:15-19 To be pitied…
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU1 CORINTHIANS 15:15-19 Click to listen to this devotion. 15 We are then found to be false witnesses of God, because we testified about God that he raised Christ– whom he did not raise if it were true that the dead are not raised. 16 For if the dead are not raised, […]
God’s Word for You – 1 Corinthians 15:11-14 The illogic of Greek logic
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU1 CORINTHIANS 15:11-14 Click to listen to this devotion. 11 So then, whether it was me preaching or them, that is what we preached, and that is what you believed. Paul is confident that where Christ is preached, the full message is proclaimed no matter who is preaching: the suffering, death, and […]
God’s Word for You – 1 Corinthians 15:5-10
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU1 CORINTHIANS 15:5-10 Click to listen to this devotion. 5 after that he appeared to Cephas, and then to the twelve. 6 After that he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep. 7 Then he appeared to James, […]
God’s Word for You – 1 Corinthians 15:4 He was buried
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU1 CORINTHIANS 15:4 Click to listen to this devotion. 4 that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures, The second point in Paul’s gospel of first importance is that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, was buried after his death. The facts […]
God’s Word for You – Susanna 1:15-21 The big lie
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUSUSANNA 1:15-21 Click to listen to this devotion. 15 Once, while they were carefully watching for the right day, she went in as usual with only two maids, and wished to bathe in the garden because it was very hot. 16 No one else was there except the two elders, who had […]
