Archive for 'Devotion'

Encounter in the Temple

Luke 2:22-40 Mal 3: 1-4 / Psa 24 / Heb 2:14-18 Lord, as you have promised, you can now dismiss your servant in peace. For my eyes have seen your salvation, which you have prepared in the sight of all people… (Luke 2:29-30) Like Simeon and Anna, may we see That Jesus Christ is life’s [...]

Nothing Less for God’s Kingdom

Luke 9: 57-62 Neh 2: 1-8 / Psa 137 …go and proclaim the kingdom of God. (Luke 9: 60) What matters is what we are now, Not what we’d been or left behind. He who “sets a hand to the plow” Has set God’s kingdom on his mind. As they were walking along the road, [...]

Keeping the Sabbath Holy

Luke 6: 6-11 Col 1: 24—2:3 / Psa 62 “I ask you, which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to destroy it?” (Luke 6:9) What we want’s not as important As God’s grace that will make us stay As faithful to His covenant, And to [...]

Love on the Sabbath

Mark 2:23-28 Heb 6: 10-20 / Psa 111 “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.” (Mark 2:27-28) The Sabbath’s more than day of rest, It’s also meant for our delight; God therefore set aside the best To worship Him with [...]

Salvation Comes in God’s Time

Matthew 18: 12-14 Is 40:1-11 / Ps 96 It is not the will of your heavenly Father that one of these little ones be lost. (Mt.18:14) In times when we may fall to sin, Let not the light of hope grow dim; God’s love will wipe our record clean, His mercy calls us back to [...]

The Example of Kateri Tekakwitha

Matthew 10: 34-42 Is 1: 10-17 / Ps 50: 8-9, 16-17, 21 and 23 Whoever does not take up his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me. (Mat.10:38) Where there’s love, there’s also discord, Just as peace is won with a sword; ‘Midst the strife, hold fast to God’s Word, Where we [...]