Daily Devotions
August 9 | What Are God’s Two Greatest Commands?
Mark 12:30-31, “30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. ’ 31 The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself. ’ There is no commandment greater than these.” God’s two greatest commands are to love Him with all…
Read MoreAugust 8 | What is the Trinity?
Matthew 28:19, “Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.” The word “trinity” is a term Christians made to describe the three divine persons of God’s nature. Tertullian was the first church theologian to use the word trinity around…
Read MoreAugust 7 | Why Does God Allow Evil?
Genesis 2:17, “But you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.” God allows evil in the world because humanity freely chose to disobey Him in the Garden of Eden. When Adam sinned he brought spiritual death to all mankind, was…
Read MoreAugust 6 | What Happens After I Die?
Hebrews 9:27, “Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment.” After your body dies your spiritual soul will be sent to hell or brought to heaven. Then after Jesus comes to earth and judges the world, hell will be thrown into the lake of fire for eternity and heaven’s citizens…
Read MoreAugust 5 | Why Am I Here?
Acts 17:26-27, “26 From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. 27 God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not…
Read MoreAugust 4 | Who Am I?
Genesis 1:27, “So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.” You are an image bearer of God. The Bible teaches that God created us in “His own image,” in Latin this is called the, “imago dei.” Though biblical scholars have taken different…
Read MoreAugust 3 | How Does God Want to Speak to Me?
John 10:27, “My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.” The Bible teaches us that God can communicate to His people in seven different ways. First, with an audible voice that comes to the ears (Acts 9:4). Second, God can communicate to us by the Holy Spirit speaking to our mind…
Read MoreAugust 2 | Who Is God?
Psalms 89:8, “Who is like you, Lord God Almighty? You, Lord, are mighty, and your faithfulness surrounds you.” According to Anslem, the great theologian of the past, “God is the greatest conceivable being.” He is the uncaused cause who is timeless, spaceless and immaterial. He is one Supreme Being, existing in three persons, with a spiritual…
Read MoreAugust 1 | Does God Exist?
Romans 1:20, “For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.” Yes, God does exist! In today’s passage Paul taught that everyone already really knows that God exists and are without excuse. In a…
Read MoreJuly 31 | Disciples Are Faithful To The End
Matthew 25:21, “His master replied, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your masters happiness!’” Jesus spoke today’s passage in the context of sharing a parable about stewards being given different amounts of talents (bags of gold).…
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