Tag: devotion
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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…
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What If I Doubt?
Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing…
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How Do I Cast My Anxiety on God?
“Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you” (1 Peter 5:7). Cast all your anxiety . . . I’ll be honest: The mental picture I’ve always had of this verse is of hurling my anxiety at God like a fisherman casting his line or net into the sea. Can you see the…
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“Poor Ascension Day”
“This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven” (Acts 1:11). Poor Ascension Day. Of all the major festivals of the Christian church, the Festival of the Ascension is probably the most neglected. No one greeted me this morning…
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Does God Hear My Prayers?
“Come and hear, all you who fear God; let me tell you what he has done for me. I cried out to him with my mouth; his praise was on my tongue.If I had cherished sin in my heart, the Lord would not have listened; but God has surely listened and has heard my prayer.…
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Who Am I and What Am I Supposed to Do?
“You are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you…
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What If I’m Scared of Dying?
“My heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will rest secure, because you will not abandon me to the realm of the dead, nor will you let your faithful one see decay. You make known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand” (Psalm 16:9-11). Death…