Wait For It

Verse: Matthew 6:1-4 “Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven. “So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the...

Finding Merciful Moments

Verse: Matthew 5:7 Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. Devotion: OK, this one can be hard. In some ways, I think, it may seem like an easy thing, show mercy. At least in the abstract. But there are so many ways that this can come up, both large and...

Keep Your Head

Verse: 2 Timothy 4:3-5 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 ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from...

Simple Gospel

Verse: 2 Timothy 2:8-10 Remember Jesus Christ, raised from the dead, descended from David. This is my gospel, for which I am suffering even to the point of being chained like a criminal. But God’s word is not chained. Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the...

And Yet.

Matthew 2:13-18 When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up,” he said, “take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.” So he got up, took the...