The Devil Made Me Do It!

“But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed.” (James 1:14) Have you ever noticed what we often do to explain sin in our lives? Many of us tend to blame it on someone else. From the beginning of time, we have looked for an excuse for our sin. When Adam committed his first sin, he blamed it on Eve. “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate”, he told God. […]

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The Voice In The Wilderness

“In those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea, and saying, ‘Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!’” (Matthew 3:1-2) The immortal words of John the Baptist, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand”, had a great deal to do with my own salvation. While sitting on the back porch of a friend’s house late one evening in 1991, I heard those words just a few days before I was saved. There was a grove of trees out behind his […]

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God Sees Pride Differently Than The World Views It

And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death – even death on a cross!” (Philippians 2:8) Here’s a question for your Sunday School class. Ask your classmates how many of the seven deadly sins they can name. Just in case you don’t know, they are pride (vanity), envy, gluttony, lust, anger, covetousness, and sloth. One of these sins is described as an abomination to God. Do you know which one? I remember it from years ago in an exchange I […]

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Forgiveness Can’t Be Withheld If Christ Lives In Your Heart

“No longer as a slave, but better than a slave, as a dear brother.” (Philemon 1:16) Has someone ever hurt you so deeply that you just can’t forgive them? Maybe this devotion is just for you. One of the most wonderful books in the Bible is the Philemon. Actually, Philemon hardly qualifies as a book. It only has 25 verses. It was a letter from the Paul to Philemon who was a wealthy friend that lived in Colosse. Interestingly, this very personal letter to Philemon was written while […]

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