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Daily Devotion Archive
God’s Word for You – 1 Corinthians 9:7-9a Do not muzzle the ox
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU1 CORINTHIANS 9:7-9a Listen to this devotion. 7 Who ever serves as a soldier and buys his own provisions? Who plants a vineyard without eating any of its fruit? Or who tends a flock without getting some of the milk? 8 I am not saying these things only from a human point […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 119:2-3 What ways are his ways⁇
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 119:2-3 Listen to this devotion. 2 Blessed are they who keep his testimonies.They seek him with all their heart. “Testimonies” is the plural of ‘edah (עֵדָה), the second synonym for law or word of God in the Psalm. Sometimes translations use “decree” for this word, but we will use “testimony” since […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 119:1 The Great Psalm begins
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 119:1 Listen to this devotion. St. Augustine called this Psalm “the Great Psalm,” and there is no reason to dispute with him about this title. While we do not know who wrote it, it has many echoes from the Psalms of David. Psalm 119 is remarkable for several reasons besides its […]
God’s Word for You – 1 Corinthians 9:5-6 A believing wife
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU1 CORINTHIANS 9:5-6 Listen to this devotion. 5 Do we not have a right to bring along with us a believing wife, as the other apostles do, including the Lord’s brothers and Peter? Certainly the apostles had the right to bring their wives along as they preached and did the work of […]
God’s Word for You – 1 Corinthians 9:1-4 Am I not free⁇
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU1 CORINTHIANS 9:1-4 Listen to this devotion. 9 Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord? 2 If I am not an apostle to others, at least I am to you, for you are the seal […]
God’s Word for You – 1 Corinthians 8:12-13 I will never eat meat again
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU1 CORINTHIANS 8:12-13 Listen to this devotion. 12 If you sin against your brothers this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. 13 This is why, if food is a cause for my brother to fall into sin, I will never eat meat again, so I will not cause […]
God’s Word for You – 1 Corinthians 8:9-11 A stumbling block to the weak
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU1 CORINTHIANS 8:9-11 Listen to this devotion. I did not inlcude the audio last Friday, so here’s that link too. 9 Take care that this liberty of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak. 10 For if someone sees you, a man who has knowledge, eating in an […]
God’s Word for You – 1 Corinthians 8:7-8 A weak conscience
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU1 CORINTHIANS 8:7-8 Listen to this devotion. 7 But not everyone has this knowledge. Some are so accustomed to idols that they eat meat thinking it really was sacrificed to an idol. Since their conscience is weak, it is defiled. 8 Food does not bring us closer to God. We are no […]
God’s Word for You – Mark 6:53-56 Gospel healing
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUMARK 6:53-56 Listen to this devotion. 53 Then they crossed over and landed at Gennesaret, and were moored there. Jesus had told his disciples to go to Bethsaida. That village, also called Bethsaida-Julius, is just uphill from the shoreline, not far from Capernaum. However, Mark omits the landing at Bethsaida (described more […]
God’s Word for You – Mark 6:49-52 Take courage
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUMARK 6:49-52 Listen to this devotion. 49 But when they saw him walking on the sea, they thought it was a ghost, and they cried out 50 because they all saw him and they were terrified. The disciples were exhausted, soaking wet, sore, and afraid for their lives. Now out in the […]
God’s Word for You – 1 Corinthians 8:1-3 meat sacrificed to idols
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU1 CORINTHIANS 8:1-3 Listen to this devotion. 8 Now about meat sacrificed to idols, we know that all of us possess knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. 2 If anyone thinks that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know. 3 But anyone who loves […]
God’s Word for You – 1 Corinthians 7:36-38 Do not marry for the wrong reason
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU1 CORINTHIANS 7:36-38 Listen to this devotion. This passage usually has the longest footnote in any modern printed Bible, even though there is no doubt as to what the Greek text is. Instead, there is a difference in what the translation should be, depending on whether one thinks that the point of […]