Devotion for August 16
God’s Spirit creates in us righteous desires, setting our minds on the things that please God and unsettling our hearts about anything that does not.
God’s Spirit creates in us righteous desires, setting our minds on the things that please God and unsettling our hearts about anything that does not.
Before we were born again, God discerned our hearts to be defective, damaged by sin. Then, with his divine power and knowledge, he gave us new hearts to love and live for Jesus.
Jesus promised, “Your Father who is in heaven [will] give good things to those who ask him.” That’s not a promise to answer every whim but to give what is best for our souls.
Christian women need a full understanding of the gospel to break the cycle of sexual sin.
Our failings are made known to us so that our Savior’s necessity would be confessed and his grace claimed.
Remembering who and what we are has implications for waging war against isolation. One of the most important is that we will understand that it is family — and, perhaps counterintuitively, not friendship — that is the true antidote for loneliness.
We all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit (1 Cor. 3:18). French mathematical genius, Blaise Pascal, spent years running from God—like so many people today. Then, Pascal encountered…
Wives truly honor husbands not by suppressing gifts but expressing them fully and selflessly for the good of a loved one.
On behalf of the PCA Permanent Committee of Mission to North America (MNA), it is with great joy that I introduce Teaching Elder Irwyn Ince as the newly elected MNA coordinator pro tempore. Dr. Ince will begin serving September 1, 2021, pending full approval of his call as MNA coordinator, to be recommended to the…
When our trials and disappointments seem more than we can bear, we must hold to the One who holds us because he is very great and he is very good.