BIBLE PASSAGE[Please read and meditate on the passage before (or after) reading the devotion.]Jesus went into unusual detail about how he would ride into Jerusalem in that final week of his human life...  Read More

BIBLE PASSAGE[Please do read the passage before (or after) reading the devotion.]“Your faith has healed you.” We sometimes think that it means we need to have “x units” (or some God-calculated quantit...  Read More

BIBLE PASSAGE[Please do read the passage before (or after) reading the devotion.]Imagine a (power) pyramid. Worldly achievement and authority/power dictate that success is measured by the extent to wh...  Read More

BIBLE PASSAGE[Please do read the passage before (or after) reading the devotion.]I’m sure that Jesus is a little amused by our heroic ambitions to do great things for him. James and John must have had...  Read More

BIBLE PASSAGE[Please do read the passage before (or after) reading the devotion.]Why did the Gospel writers record Jesus talking about his death (and resurrection) three times to his disciples/followe...  Read More

BIBLE PASSAGE[Please do read the passage before (or after) reading the devotion.]Reminder: There will be no daily devotion tomorrow, Sunday. Hopefully, most of you will be in a House of Worship listen...  Read More

BIBLE PASSAGE[Please do read the passage before (or after) reading the devotion.]The young man who came to Jesus was rich and sincere in the way he lived out his Jewish faith. Though I wonder whether ...  Read More

BIBLE PASSAGE[Please do read the passage before (or after) reading the devotion.]Jesus’ love for children is obvious in this passage. He refused to be too busy for them; in fact he took the time to bl...  Read More

BIBLE PASSAGE[Please do read the passage before (or after) reading the devotion.]The marriage relationship was completely God’s idea! He built it into Creation when He made everything else, and it is ...  Read More

BIBLE PASSAGE[Please do read the passage before (or after) reading the devotion.]Jesus gives a curious contrast. First, on the one hand, he warns how even one aspect of a person can bring ruin to that...  Read More

BIBLE PASSAGE[Please do read the passage before (or after) reading the devotion.]Sometimes our spirit of competition can be the Church’s undoing. When the same work is being done with similar good res...  Read More

BIBLE PASSAGE[Please do read the passage before (or after) reading the devotion.]Reminder: There will be no daily devotion tomorrow, Sunday. Hopefully, most of you will be in a House of Worship listen...  Read More

BIBLE PASSAGE[Please do read the passage before (or after) reading the devotion.]Let’s spend a little more time in yesterday’s “valley” event, focusing on the afflicted boy’s father and Jesus. The boy...  Read More

BIBLE PASSAGE[Please do read the passage before (or after) reading the devotion.]As the 3 disciples and Jesus come down from the mountain after that fantastic spiritual experience of seeing and hearin...  Read More

BIBLE PASSAGE[Please do read the passage before (or after) reading the devotion.]It was an audiovisual treat, in real time, in real life – way before TV, 3-D, or virtual reality had ever thrilled huma...  Read More

BIBLE PASSAGE[Please do read the passage before (or after) reading the devotion.]It’s a question that we will need to answer sooner or later. What do I consider really, really important in life? What/...  Read More

BIBLE PASSAGE[Please do read the passage before (or after) reading the devotion.]Jesus obviously didn’t bother about opinion polls or popularity contests. And he wasn’t trying to enlarge his following...  Read More

BIBLE PASSAGE[Please do read the passage before (or after) reading the devotion.]Reminder: There will be NO daily devotion tomorrow, Sunday. Hopefully, most of you will be in a House of Worship listen...  Read More

BIBLE PASSAGE[Please do read the passage before (or after) reading the devotion.]“Who do you say I am?” That’s a strange question to ask someone who’s been with you constantly for three years. But bef...  Read More

BIBLE PASSAGE[Please do read the passage before (or after) reading the devotion.]Here’s another miracle: Jesus heals a blind man. But notice a pattern: some (nameless) people bring the man to Jesus. T...  Read More

BIBLE PASSAGE[Please do read the passage before (or after) reading the devotion.]Jesus loved his disciples. That’s why he warned them against the self-righteous pride of the Pharisees and the self-ser...  Read More

BIBLE PASSAGE[Please do read the passage before (or after) reading the devotion.]Crowds followed Jesus even when he tried to get some “alone time” for himself and with his disciples. Were they really ...  Read More

BIBLE PASSAGE[Please do read the passage before (or after) reading the devotion.]Jesus traveled with his disciples through a Gentile region near where he had healed the man with a legion of unclean/ev...  Read More

BIBLE PASSAGE[Please do read the passage before (or after) reading the devotion.]Reminder: There will be NO daily devotion tomorrow, Sunday. Hopefully most of you will be in a House of Worship listeni...  Read More