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Daily Devotion

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10
Jul2025

Go on, finish the prayer – Jesus’ style

by Steve Liersch

Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, ‘My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will’ (Matthew 26:39).

09
Jul2025

Follow the leader – until …?

by Steve Liersch

But Peter declared, ‘Even if I have to die with you, I will never disown you.’ And all the other disciples said the same (Matthew 26:35).

08
Jul2025

Jesus drops a bombshell

by Steve Liersch

Jesus replied, ‘The one who has dipped his hand into the bowl with me will betray me’ (Matthew 26:23).

07
Jul2025

How dare they? But God used them anyway

by Steve Liersch

Then the chief priests and the elders of the people assembled in the palace of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas, and they schemed to arrest Jesus secretly and kill him (Matthew 26:3,4).

06
Jul2025

Multiplication is the name of the game

by Steve Liersch

After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them two by two ahead of him to every town and place where he was about to go (Luke 10:1).

05
Jul2025

Awesome

by Dianne Eckermann

Come and see what God has done: he is awesome in his deeds among mortals (Psalm 66:5).