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Daily Devotion

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14
Aug2022

A better way

by Annie Duarte

Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division (Luke 12:51).

13
Aug2022

Please intervene again, O Lord

by Pastor Steve Liersch

God presides in the great assembly; he renders judgement among the ‘gods’ (Psalm 82:1).

12
Aug2022

Let the ‘games’ continue

by Pastor Steve Liersch

Similarly, anyone who competes as an athlete does not receive the victor’s crown except by competing according to the rules (2 Timothy 2:5).

11
Aug2022

Taking Jesus at his word

by Pastor Steve Liersch

‘Go,’ Jesus replied, ‘your son will live.’ The man took Jesus at his word and departed (John 4:50).

10
Aug2022

Sharpening the conscience of service

by Pastor Steve Liersch

From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked (Luke 12:48b).

09
Aug2022

Whom do you fear – and why?

by Pastor Steve Liersch

I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you that you fear mere mortals, human beings who are but grass, that you forget the Lord your Maker (Isaiah 51:12,13).