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Daily Devotion

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26
Mar2022

Repentance and forgiveness

by Mark Schubert

I said to myself, ‘I will confess my transgressions to the Lord’. And you forgave me! All my guilt is gone (Psalm 32:5b).

25
Mar2022

Be holy

by Mark Schubert

But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; for it is written: ‘Be holy, because I am holy’ (1 Peter 1:15,16).

24
Mar2022

Greed and God

by Mark Schubert

No immoral, impure or greedy person – such a person is an idolater – has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God (Ephesians 5:5).

23
Mar2022

Success?

by Mark Schubert

Whoever wants to be first must be your slave – just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many (Matthew 20:27,28).

22
Mar2022

A different response

by Mark Schubert

When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he did not bring on them the destruction he had threatened (Jonah 3:10).

21
Mar2022

Repentance leads to …

by Mark Schubert

Perhaps they will listen and each will turn from their evil ways. Then I will relent and not inflict on them the disaster I was planning (Jeremiah 26:3).