Category: Devotion

Devotion Acts 17:23 Peace, True Peace

Acts 17:23 – For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: to an unknown god. So you are ignorant of the very thing you worship—and this is what I am going to proclaim to you. Since Athens had over three thousand idols in their city,…

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Devotion Luke 6:45 Contents Of The Heart

Luke 6:45 “The good person out of the good treasure of the heart produces good, and the evil person out of evil treasure produces evil; for it is out of the abundance of the heart that the mouth speaks.” Proverbs 4:22 – Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it. When I was a…

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Devotion Acts 17:22 When One Is Greater Than Many

Acts 17:22 – Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: “People of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious. 23 For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: to an unknown god. So you are ignorant of the very…

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Devotion John 3:5-8 Breathing and Living In The Wind

John 3:5-8 – Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit. 6 Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. 7You should not be surprised at my saying, ‘You must be born again.’ 8 The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but…

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Devotion Isaiah 43:18-19 A Good Day To Smile

Isaiah 43:18-19 – Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past.  19 See, I am doing a new thing!  Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?  I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland. Ecclesiastes 3:11 – He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the…

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Devotion Acts 17:16-21 God Is In Control Part 3

Acts 17:16-21 – While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was greatly distressed to see that the city was full of idols. 17 So he reasoned in the synagogue with both Jews and God-fearing Greeks, as well as in the marketplace day by day with those who happened to be there. 18 A group of Epicurean and Stoic philosophers began…

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Devotion John 3:16 Through Jesus God Forever Loves Us

Since God allowed His Son to suffer and die for us, do we really think that His love for us stopped at the resurrection of Jesus?  No, our Father has given us His great love and eternal care.  So His passionate love for us to send Jesus to die for us remains with us today…

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Devotion 2 Samuel 16:10b To Know Him Is To Love And Trust Him

2 Samuel 16:10b – “…If he is cursing because the Lord said to him, ‘Curse King David,’ who can ask, ‘Why do you do this?’” 2 Samuel 15-16 Jerusalem is where King David’s palace was, the city was called the City of Peace.  Yet, at that time, there was little peace there. Leading up to the above verse we read…

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Devotion Acts 17:16-21 Trust And Obey, There’s No Other Way Part 2

Acts 17:16-21 – While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was greatly distressed to see that the city was full of idols. 17 So he reasoned in the synagogue with both Jews and God-fearing Greeks, as well as in the marketplace day by day with those who happened to be there. 18 A group of Epicurean and Stoic philosophers began…

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