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Daily Devotion Archive
God’s Word for You – Mark 6:30-33 A secluded, solitary place
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUMARK 6:30-33 Listen to this devotion. 30 The apostles gathered around Jesus and reported to him all they had done and taught. Mark brings us back to the present day of his account, which is to say, just as the apostles returned after being sent out to preach, heal, and drive out […]
God’s Word for You – Mark 6:26-29 “I must become less…”
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUMARK 6:26-29 Listen to this devotion. 26 The king became very sad, but because of his oaths and his dinner guests, he did not want to refuse her. 27 So at once he sent an executioner and ordered him to bring John’s head. The man went, beheaded John in the prison, 28 […]
God’s Word for You – 1 Corinthians 6:15-16 United with a prostitute?
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU1 CORINTHIANS 6:15-16 Listen to this devotion. 15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Certainly not! 16 Do you not know that when a man is united with a prostitute he becomes one […]
God’s Word for You – 1 Corinthians 6:14 God raised the Lord
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU1 CORINTHIANS 6:14 Listen to this devotion. 14 God both raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power. Paul silences the philosophy of the Corinthians by showing that their theory didn’t take into account all of the facts. They had argued that the Lord would destroy the body, […]
God’s Word for You – 1 Corinthians 6:12-13 Everything is permitted
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU1 CORINTHIANS 6:12-13 Listen to this devotion. 12 “Everything is permitted for me”– but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permitted for me”– but I will not be mastered by anything. 13 “Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, but God will destroy them both.” The body is […]
God’s Word for You – 1 Corinthians 6:11 Washed, sanctified, justified
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU1 CORINTHIANS 6:11 Listen to this devotion. 11 And some of you were those things. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. Here Paul sets his finger on the Corinthians: Some of you were […]
God’s Word for You – 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 A panoply of perversions
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU1 CORINTHIANS 6:9-10 Listen to this devotion. 9 Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit God’s kingdom? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men for pay or for pleasure 10 nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards […]
God’s Word for You – Mark 6:24-25 The sin of Salome (Part 2)
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUMARK 6:24-25 Listen to this devotion. 24 She went out and said to her mother, “What shall I ask for?” “The head of John the Baptizer,” she answered. 25 At once the girl hurried in to the king with the request: “I want you to give me the head of John the […]
God’s Word for You – Mark 6:21-23 The sin of Salome (Part 1)
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUMARK 6:21-23 Listen to this devotion. Remember as we read that this account is a flashback, telling us why Herod thought that Jesus might possibly be John the Baptist risen from the dead. Here as in some other places, the Greek text does not call John “the Baptist,” but “the Baptizer” or […]
God’s Word for You – 1 Corinthians 6:5-8 Better to be wronged
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU1 CORINTHIANS 6:5-8 Listen to this devotion. 5 I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is no one wise enough among you to decide a dispute between brothers? 6 Instead, brother takes brother to court– in front of unbelievers? 7 In fact you have already suffered defeat: to […]
God’s Word for You – 1 Corinthians 6:4 lawsuits about everyday matters
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU1 CORINTHIANS 6:4 Listen to this devotion. 4 If you have lawsuits about everyday matters, then why do you appoint judges who have no standing in the church? Sometimes we need to spend some time figuring out what a verse says before we can apply what it means to our lives. Here […]
God’s Word for You – 1 Corinthians 6:3 We will judge angels
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU1 CORINTHIANS 6:3 Listen to this devotion. 3 Do you not know that we will judge angels? Then why not matters of this life? Paul continues his concern about judging ordinary, human cases or grievances by taking one more look at the final and ultimate court: Judgment Day. Not only will believers […]
