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  • What Do You Treasure?

    What Do You Treasure?

    “For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” (Matthew‬ ‭6‬:‭21‬) What do you love most? Is there something you simply can’t live without? There are many things in life we hold dearly—our families, friends, and even possessions. Of course, we should hold our loved ones dearly. But what about possessions? What about…

  • The Weight of our Sin

    The Weight of our Sin

    We have a problem, and it’s not a tiny problem. It’s not a minor issue or a little fork in the road. The problem we have is eternally weighty. Our problem is our sin. And the weight of sin—or the wages of sin, I should say—is death. That means not only physical death, but spiritual…

  • The Need for Truth

    The Need for Truth

    The church needs truth. In a day and age when there are many secular, anti-Christian ideas infiltrating the church, we need to stand all the more firm on the solid rock that is the Bible while holding fast to the unshakeable truths Christians have believed for over 2,000 years! We need truth, and that truth…

  • Did Jesus Ever Get Sick?

    Did Jesus Ever Get Sick?

    The other day our youngest, Piper, got sick. Anytime someone in my family gets sick—whether it’s my kids or wife—I immediately want to make sure they’re okay. But then there’s another part of me—a sinful one—that immediately resorts to anxiety. Hopefully it’s not contagious, I think. I hate vomiting. I inevitably make the situation all…

  • Our Only Comfort

    Our Only Comfort

    For this devotional today, I want to share with you this beautiful piece of question and answer from day one of the Heidelberg Catechism: Question: “What is your only comfort in life and death?” Answer: “That I am not my own, but belong with body and soul, both in life and in death, to my…

  • Jesus, our Creator

    Jesus, our Creator

    “For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.”‭‭(Colossians‬ ‭1‬:‭16‬) Jesus is not only our Savior, but our Creator. Contrary to the heresies of different cults and religions, Jesus is eternal—He was not…

  • Put Off, Put On

    Put Off, Put On

    “…to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.” (Ephesians‬ ‭4‬:‭22‬-‭24‬) The Christian life, from beginning…

  • Dead People Don’t Believe

    Dead People Don’t Believe

    “And you were dead in the trespasses and sins”‭‭(Ephesians‬ ‭2‬:‭1‬) Perhaps you’ve heard the analogy before of God saving us. We were drowning in the ocean and God threw out a life raft to us. By our free will, we took hold of the life raft and He drew us in and brought us to…

  • God’s Sovereignty and Unanswered Prayer

    God’s Sovereignty and Unanswered Prayer

    Author’s Note: I forgot to write an original devotional for this morning, so I decided to do another short excerpt from my book, Taking No for an Answer. Enjoy. God is sovereign, and I am not. That fact right there should cause an immense amount of gratitude to swell up in my heart. God’s will…

  • Acknowledging our Sin

    Acknowledging our Sin

    “For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.” (Psalm‬ ‭51‬:‭3‬) We are prideful creatures. Even as we are united with Christ, we still reside in our sinful flesh, so we fight day in and day out against our ungodly desires. Because of this, it takes the grace of God to put…