Devotion for November 18
The charge to put God’s priorities above our own often can reduce our checklist to one item: Does this church help me serve Jesus better?
The charge to put God’s priorities above our own often can reduce our checklist to one item: Does this church help me serve Jesus better?
When the Holy Spirit is active among us, he not only convicts our hearts of sin, but makes us willing to confess our sin to God and to one another.
In order to love your enemy, it helps to understand that your enemy is not only your enemy. Your enemy is also your neighbor.
Our churches, our families, our neighborhoods, fellowships, and the people in all of these become more precious to us as we invest in them, and Jesus shine brighter because we do.
We don’t love others because they deserve it, but because Christ deserves our obedience.
If you have come to the end of yourself, it’s time to pray “that the power of Christ may rest upon me.”
So, whoever confesses, “I got nothing but Jesus,” gets heaven.
After its annual meeting NAPARC issued a press release with a summary of the meeting.
When you recognize God’s discipline, trust it to be an expression of fatherly care that would be absent without his grace.
Veterans Day is the one time we can count on civilians—a group from which we came but can never fully return—to think about us.