Daily Devo | August 26, 2020
The Bible is meant to be our teacher in everything, and just as we search it to know the truth, and to know how to behave, so we should seek to learn from it how to pray…
Entries by Cheryl Hawes
Daily Devo | August 25, 2020
How blithely we read that ‘for the joy that was set before him he endured the cross …’ (Heb. 12:2), and many have been heard to say that the ‘joy’ in question was the crown that awaited him. Very likely so, but Isaiah says it was the joy of saving us…
Daily Devo | August 24, 2020
‘The city’ is one of the Bible’s pervasive themes. In Genesis 11:1–9 a ‘city’ was humankind’s remedy for the divisiveness of sin and the ever-threatening world sin had created – a human organisation for salvation and security. Isaiah foresaw the whole world organised into a ‘global village’…
Daily Devo | August 21, 2020
Paul’s message, though, is that we rejoice because Christ is in control. We are gentle because Christ is in control. We pray because Christ is in control. And when Christ is in control, you can experience true peace….
Daily Devo | August 20, 2020
Horatio Spafford was an American lawyer who lost everything he had in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Only two years later, he sent his wife Anna and their four daughters on a ship across the Atlantic Ocean to England for a trip. The ship hit another ship on the way and began to sink…
Daily Devo | August 19, 2020
But look carefully here. It’s a little counterintuitive, isn’t it? What we would say is you make your requests to God, and then…if you get your requests, you thank. That’s not what it says. It says you thank him as you make the request…
Daily Devo | August 18, 2020
Paul tells us about the character of this peace is it’s not just an absence of fear. It’s the presence of something. In particular, it’s the sense of being protected…
Daily Devo | August 17, 2020
You don’t see Paul starting by saying, “Look, I have a little model for reconciling people. Here’s step one, step two, step three. This is sort of a listening model and a problem-solving model, and I’d like you guys to go through it.” That’s not what he says…
Daily Devo | August 14, 2020
If you’re mature, you must think of yourself as a runner, not a spectator. When it comes to knowing God in Jesus Christ, there is no such thing as a spectator sport. We are not justified to sit; we are justified to run.
Daily Devo | August 13, 2020
Christians, Paul is saying, know where their loyalties lie: “in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus” (3:20). Paul is actually describing Christians as having “counter-citizenship.”
