Revcort's Ramblings

  • Faith That Can Be Seen

    Faith That Can Be Seen

    Scripture Focus “But someone will say, ‘You have faith and I have works.’ Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder!” — James 2:18–19 (ESV) Devotional…

  • Mercy Triumphs Over Judgment

    Mercy Triumphs Over Judgment

    Scripture Focus “For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.” — James 2:13 (ESV) Devotional Thought Mercy does not come naturally to us, does it? Most people are remarkably skilled at showing mercy to themselves while demanding justice for everyone else. We…

  • Hearing Is Not Enough

    Hearing Is Not Enough

    Scripture Focus “But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away…

  • Outside the Camp

    Outside the Camp

    Scripture Focus “So Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people through his own blood. Therefore let us go to him outside the camp and bear the reproach he endured. For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come.”…

  • Love That Lives Out the Gospel

    Love That Lives Out the Gospel

    Scripture Focus “Let brotherly love continue. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body.” — Hebrews 13:1–3 (ESV) Devotional…

  • When We Turn on Each Other

    When We Turn on Each Other

    Scripture Focus “For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ But if you bite and devour one…

  • Receiving an Unshakable Kingdom

    Receiving an Unshakable Kingdom

    Scripture Focus “See that you do not refuse him who is speaking. For if they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less will we escape if we reject him who warns from heaven. At that time his voice shook the earth, but now…

  • Discipline That Transforms

    Discipline That Transforms

    Scripture Focus “It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. Besides this, we…

  • Running the Race with Endurance

    Running the Race with Endurance

    Scripture Focus “Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith,…

  • Strangers Seeking a Better Country

    Strangers Seeking a Better Country

    Scripture Focus “These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. For people who speak thus make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. If they…