Easter Every Day

Verse: Psalm 103: 1-5 Praise the Lord, O my soul, all my inmost being, praise his holy name. 2 Praise the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits – 3 who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases, 4 who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you...

Moving Mountains

Verse: Matthew 21:18-22 18 Early in the morning, as he was on his way back to the city, he was hungry.  19 Seeing a fig tree by the road, he went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves.  Then he said to it, “May you never bear fruit again!”  Immediately the...

Jesus Navigates a Hard Issue

Verse: Matthew 19: 3-12 Some Pharisees came to him to test him. They asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any and every reason?” 4 “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ’made them male and female,’ 5 and said, ‘For this...

Evil Thoughts

VERSE: Matthew 15:10-20 Jesus called the crowd to him and said, “Listen and understand.  11 What goes into a man’s mouth does not make him ‘unclean,’ but what comes out of his mouth, that is what makes him ‘unclean.’” 12 Then the disciples came to him and asked, “Do...

Peace and Joy

VERSE: Matthew 17:22-23 Now while they were staying in Galilee, Jesus said to them, “The Son of Man is going to be betrayed into the hands of men.  They will kill him, and on the third day he will be raised to life.”  And they were exceedingly sorrowful. DEVOTION This...