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.”
Daily Devo | August 12, 2020
Now there’s a passionate paraphrase of St. Paul! There is far more to life for us! Accumulating, hoarding, and obsessing over transitory possessions, glittering as they are, offer far less of a life than what Christ offers…
Daily Devo | August 11, 2020
…Paul says, “join together” in imitating me, in following my example. It is quite easy to read past this communal statement. This is no solo endeavor. Others are required for this kind of imitation…
Daily Devo | August 10, 2020
The word here for “mature” is teleioi. It has the idea of having grown into the fullness of being who God made you to be, of wanting everything that God has for you. Picture that. Maybe it’s a series of images piecing together a life…
