Daily Devotion: October 13, 2025

We are encouraged to pray for others in church, for missionaries and different people from our lives. Often we are asked to commit to a prayer vigil for a person, a missionary, a situation and many churches have a prayer list. Sometimes we hesitate to make prayer commitments because we are not sure that we will be able to live up to it. We ask ourselves will we remember to pray every day? It isn’t that we don’t want to, we’re obviously taking the matter of prayer very seri

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Daily Devotion: October 12, 2025

Tasting Life

We have annual festivals in many areas and oftentimes local restaurants will have a booth or set up a table offering tastes of their specialities. The owners of those restaurants and their Chefs hope that by tasting their food it will entice us to try more of their recipes. They invite us to come, taste and see for ourselves how good their food is. In Psalms 34:8 David said “O taste and see that the Lord is good…” He continues to express how he sought the Lord

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Daily Devotion: October 11, 2025

Loving Jesus. We say we love Jesus, we often whisper it in prayer, say it when singing a hymn, when arriving or leaving church, when looking upon a cross or perhaps when taking communion. The phrase is said by most of us often enough. We say “I Love You” to our children and they say it to us. We say it to our spouse or a boyfriend, girlfriend or friend But what about “I Love You Jesus?” What if Jesus is waiting for us to say that to Him, how long would He have to wait to h

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Daily Devotion: October 10, 2025

A biblical understanding of pride shows it as the root of many sins, a self-worship that directly opposes God, who "opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble" (James 4:6). A life of humility, patterned after Christ, is the antidote to this insidious vice. This guide offers a Bible study and devotion to help you identify pride in your own heart and cultivate a humble spirit. 

Bible study: The path of pride versus the walk of humility

Opening Prayer: Begin with a moment

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Daily Devotion: October 9, 2025

This one-chapter book of Philemon with only 25 verses, a personal letter from the apostle Paul, is a powerful and practical illustration of the gospel in action. It addresses the difficult issue of a runaway slave, Onesimus, who has become a Christian and is now being sent back to his master, Philemon, a wealthy leader in the church at Colossae.

Bible study: Philemon 1

Background

The people: Paul writes this letter while in prison, possibly in Rome, to Philemon, a Christian...

Daily Devotion: October 8, 2025

This bible study and devotion is to explore the biblical understanding of spiritual apathy, examining its causes, consequences, and the path to renewal.

Introduction: Defining spiritual apathy

Spiritual apathy is a subtle and dangerous condition characterized by indifference, laziness, and a lack of zeal toward the things of God. It is not a sudden rejection of faith, but a slow, quiet drift away from an engaged relationship with Christ. A person experiencing spiritual apa

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Daily Devotion: October 07, 2025

Silence has its place vs Silence can be a sin

Silence can become a practice of humility. Life seems to require our performance but God doesn’t need us to do anything. He can make the rocks cry out in praise to Him if we don’t. We all should hope that God never has to do that because we failed to praise Him. Being silent does have its place. We sometimes should learn to listen and be slow to speak, the Bible tells us this, James 1:19-20. Our words can build up or tear down w

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Daily Devotion: October 7, 2025

What is our responsibility after we get saved? Once saved we do not become perfect. We never were and we never will be. We have all made mistakes and some of us have made what we would consider huge mistakes. However, to God sin is sin James 2:10. By the grace of God we have been forgiven when Jesus touched our hearts, convicted us of our sins and we confessed our sins to God and with a humbled heart we then asked for forgiveness and invited Jesus to come into our heart an

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Daily Devotion: October 6, 2025

Athaliah and Jehosheba

This study of the Bible we are looking at two women in the southern area of Israel known as Judah.  One was out to destroy the line of Judah and the other to preserve it.  Athelia was as bad a queen as any fairy tale could produce.  People feared her for her ruthlessness in killing her own grandsons and promoting Baal worship just like her parents Ahab and Jezebel. Athalia married the king of Judah thereby uniting the north and south. When the king di

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Daily Devotion: October 05, 2025

“There is no fear in love [dread does not exist], but full-grown (complete, perfect) love turns fear out of doors.” 1 John 4:18

THROW OUT YOUR FEARS

When you were young and said a bad word, your parents may have threatened to wash your mouth out with soap. Well, if FEAR is a DIRTY Word, then FAITH in God’s UNCONDITIONAL LOVE for you is like soap! Too many put the cart before the horse. We believe that God accepts us based on the degree of our love for Him rather than on the

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Daily Devotion: October 4, 2025

Title:

 A Prayer for the Betrayed

Scripture: Psalm 55:22: "Cast your cares on the Lord and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous be shaken".

Reflection:

Psalm 55 is a raw and honest portrait of King David's anguish during a time of immense betrayal and fear. He laments the pain inflicted by his enemies but reserves his deepest grief for a companion, a close friend with whom he once shared "sweet fellowship" and worshiped "at the house of God" (Psalm 55:13–14)

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Daily Devotion: October 3, 2025

"Praise be to the LORD my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle. He is my loving God and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield, in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me.” Psalm 144:2. 

As a Christian do you have times in your life that make you feel like you’re fighting a war rather than feeling all warm and fuzzy?  Most of us can probably relate. We sometimes feel like we are in a battle spiritually and the truth is that we do

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Daily Devotion: October 2, 2025

“To serve or be served" studying God's word in Mark 10:45 we are told that Jesus, the son of God didn't come to be served but came to serve and minister to others.  Think about that..... "For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many." Mark 10:45. Jesus, our Lord God gives us a loving example of servitude to others and we too must remember to live our life in servitude to others. From healing the sick and po

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Daily Devotion: October 1, 2025

A Bible study on the Shulamite woman

The Shulamite woman is the heroine of the Song of Solomon (or Song of Songs), a book of lyric poetry focused on romantic love. Her identity is not explicitly revealed, but she is described as a country girl who works in the vineyards and is in love with a shepherd. The story, told largely from her perspective, follows her courtship, marriage, and ongoing love with her beloved. The Song of Solomon can be read as a celebration of marital i

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Daily Devotion: September 30, 2025

What does the Bible say about etiquette / manners?

Etiquette is a set of specific rules designed to ensure polite behavior in a group or within a culture. When someone knows and follows the expected rules for behavior, we say that person has good etiquette or good manners. Part of being properly socialized within a culture is learning what that culture considers acceptable behavior in dining, conversation, and attire. Proper etiquette can vary from culture to culture, so it

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