Tag: devotion
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Lord, When Your Glory I Shall See
Moses said, “Now show me your glory.” And the Lord said, “I will cause all my goodness to pass in front of you, and I will proclaim my name, the Lord, in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.…
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Have You Prayed for Our Country?
God Bless Our Native Land 1. God bless our native land;firm may she ever standthro’ storm and night!When the wild tempests rave,Ruler of wind and wave,do thou our country saveby thy great might. 2. For her our prayer shall riseto God above the skies;on him we wait.Thou who art ever nigh,guarding with watchful eye,to thee…
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A Golden Calf and a Wooden Cross
Moses turned and went down the mountain with the two tablets of the covenant law in his hands. They were inscribed on both sides, front and back. The tablets were the work of God; the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets. When Joshua heard the noise of the people shouting, he…
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Tell Me What I Need to Know
“Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction. For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching…
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“Here Am I. Send Me!”
“The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field” (Matthew 9:37-38). “We need more pastors, teachers, and staff ministers.” If you’ve ever heard someone make that comment, or if you’ve said it yourself, I’m willing to bet that Jesus’ words…
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Who Did Jesus Come to Save?
As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “Follow me,” he told him, and Matthew got up and followed him. While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with him and his disciples. When the Pharisees saw…
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What Do We Want Our Congregations to Be?
Note: This day (Thursday, June 11, 2026) marks the minor festival of the church year for Saint Barnabas, Apostle. The following is a devotion from Richard E. Lauersdorf’s With Our Eyes on Jesus. “Some of them, however, men from Cyprus and Cyrene, went to Antioch and began to speak to Greeks also, telling them the good…
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“Let There Be . . . ”
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. And God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light” (Genesis 1:1-3). Genesis chapter 1 is one of my…