• Submitting Plans, Shaping Desires

    Submitting Plans, Shaping Desires

    Scripture Focus “The plans of the heart belong to man, But the answer of the tongue is from the Lord. All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the spirit. Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established.”…

  • Listening to Understand

    Listening to Understand

    Scripture Focus “A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion.” — Proverbs 18:2 (ESV) Devotional Thought This proverb speaks with startling relevance to our modern culture. So many conversations today generate more heat than light because people are not truly seeking understanding—they are simply waiting…

  • Prayerful Struggling for People

    Prayerful Struggling for People

    Scripture Focus “For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full…

  • God Doesn’t Wink at Our Sins

    God Doesn’t Wink at Our Sins

    Scripture Focus “The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: ‘Stand in the gate of the Lord’s house, and proclaim there this word, and say, “Hear the word of the Lord, all you men of Judah who enter these gates to worship the Lord. Thus says the Lord of…

  • This World Is Not Your Home

    This World Is Not Your Home

    Scripture Focus “For many, of whom I have often told you and now tell you even with tears, walk as enemies of the cross of Christ. Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things. But our citizenship…

  • The Easy Way or the Hard Way

    The Easy Way or the Hard Way

    Scripture Focus “I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you. Be not like a horse or a mule, without understanding, which must be curbed with bit and bridle, or it will not stay near you.” —…

  • God’s Interruptions May Be Invitations

    God’s Interruptions May Be Invitations

    Scripture Focus “So the Jews said to the man who had been healed, ‘It is the Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to take up your bed.’ But he answered them, ‘The man who healed me, that man said to me, “Take up your bed, and walk.”’” —…

  • Sharing the Whole Gospel

    Sharing the Whole Gospel

    Scripture Focus“But if I say, ‘I will not remember Him or speak anymore in His name,’ then in my heart it becomes like a burning fire shut up in my bones; and I am weary of holding it in, and I cannot endure it.” – Jeremiah 20:9 Devotional Thought Jeremiah…

  • Like a Weaned Child

    Like a Weaned Child

    Scripture Focus“O Lord, my heart is not lifted up; my eyes are not raised too high; I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me. But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; like a weaned child is…

  • Don’t Seek Things, Seek Christ

    Don’t Seek Things, Seek Christ

    Scripture Focus “Jesus answered them, ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, you are seeking me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves. Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of…