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Daily Devotion Archive
God’s Word for You – 1 Corinthians 5:6-7 Sweep out the yeast
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU1 CORINTHIANS 5:6-7 Listen to this devotion. 6 Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough? 7 Sweep out the old yeast that you may be a new batch without yeast– as you really are. For our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed: […]
God’s Word for You – 1 Corinthians 5:3-5 Hand him over to Satan
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU1 CORINTHIANS 5:3-5 Listen to this devotion. 3 Even though I am absent in the body, I am present in spirit. And just as if I was present, I have already passed judgment on the one who did this. 4 When you are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ […]
God’s Word for You – 1 Corinthians 5:2 The purpose of excommunication
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU1 CORINTHIANS 5:2 Listen to this devotion. 2 Yet you are proud! Shouldn’t you have been filled with grief so that the man who did this deed would have been removed from among you? In Corinth, sex was a problem. There were so many perversions, so many things that would have been […]
God’s Word for You – Mark 6:14-16 Herod’s fear
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUMARK 6:14-16 Listen to this devotion. 14 King Herod heard about this because the name of Jesus had become well known. Herod was saying, “John, the one who was baptizing, has been raised from the dead, and that is why these miraculous powers are at work in him.” 15 But others were […]
God’s Word for You – Mark 6:13 Anointing with oil
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUMARK 6:13 Listen to this devotion. After being rejected in his home town of Nazareth, Jesus taught throughout the villages of Galilee. Now he sent out the twelve apostles in pairs, to preach the gospel, heal the sick, and with special authority over demons or evil spirits. 13 They drove out many […]
God’s Word for You – 1 Corinthians 5:1 Incest in Corinth
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU1 CORINTHIANS 5:1 Listen to this devotion. 5 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and a kind of sexual immorality that is not found even among Gentiles: A man has his father’s wife! Just how pious and righteous were the lives of the Corinthians who were critical […]
God’s Word for You – 1 Corinthians 4:20-21 The danger of pietism
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU1 CORINTHIANS 4:20-21 Listen to this devotion. 20 For the kingdom of God does not consist in talk but in power. 21 Which one do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or with love in a spirit of gentleness? The phrase “kingdom of God” is generally the way […]
God’s Word for You – 1 Corinthians 4:18-19 The cross of ‘modern theology’
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU1 CORINTHIANS 4:18-19 Listen to this devotion. 18 Some of you are arrogant, as though I were not coming to you. 19 But I will come to you soon, if the Lord is willing, and I will find out the power, not the talk, of these arrogant people. Those pesky Corinthian factions […]
God’s Word for You – 1 Corinthians 4:17 My ways in Christ Jesus
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU1 CORINTHIANS 4:17 Listen to this devotion. 17 That is why I sent Timothy to you. He is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord. He will remind you of my ways in Christ Jesus, as I teach them everywhere in every church. Timothy was a young man Paul met in […]
God’s Word for You – 1 Corinthians 4:15-16 Be imitators
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU1 CORINTHIANS 4:15-16 Listen to this devotion Paul just said: “I am not writing this to shame you, but to admonish you as my dear children.” Now he continues that thought with the way that he has set a fatherly example. 15 For even if you have ten thousand guides in Christ, […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 53:6b God restores his people
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 53:6b Listen to this devotion. When God restores his people,let Jacob rejoice and Israel be glad! When Martin Luther brought a pine tree into his house (what did his wife say?) and decorated it with candles wired to the branches, he said that he had been moved by the beauty of […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 53:6a Our salvation
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 53:6a Listen to this devotion. 6 Who will bring salvation for Israel from out of Zion? “From out of Zion” could have two or even three meanings. First, Zion can be a reference to the Old Testament Jews, the nation that was promised a Savior that would come from their nation […]