HE PAID IT ALL

Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: 1 John 2:4-5 INSIGHT: The apostle John gives a word of […]

THE ONLY GOOD SHEPHERD

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. John 10:11 Insight: Jesus makes a clear difference between Him—the good shepherd—and the hired man—the devil. One lays down his own life, lives a life of sacrifice, pays the price on behalf of the sheep whereas the other runs away […]

GOD LOVES YOU

Bible Reading/Text For God so loved the world that he gave his one nad only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life… John 3:16-18 Insight: Many talk about love but only a few really manifest it. Real love must be practical. Our passage today leads us on the path of true […]

WHO DO YOU SAY JESUS IS?

Bible Reading/Text Now there was a Pharisee, a man named Nicodemus who was a member of the Jewish ruling council…. that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him. John 3:1-15 Insight: A teacher of the law, Nicodemus, goes to Jesus at night with his interrogations. He must have realized that Jesus could be the one the OT […]

MORE GRACE TO THE HUMBLE

Bible Reading/Text You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God?…But He gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble” James 4:4-6 Insight: Our meditation begins with a sense of betrayal; that’s what adultery is, being intimately involved with someone […]

INTERNAL BATTLES

Bible Reading/Text What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you?… You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your […]

A WORD OF CAUTION ABOUT THE TONGUE

\ Bible Reading/Text “Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness…Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives, or a grapevine produce figs? Neither can a salt pond yield fresh water.” james 3:1-12 Insight: A serious warning for all who are […]

PERFECT GIFT, PERFECT GIVER

Bible Reading/Text 16 Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers. 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change. James 1:16-17</s Insight: “Do not be deceived” friends, God does not tempt anybody to sin. This all idea is foreign to a God who […]

BORN OF GOD

Bible Reading/Text The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world. …But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God. John 1:9-13<span data-ccp-props Insight: Certain things—light […]

IN HIM WAS LIFE

Bible Reading/Text In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the word was God…In Him was life and the life was the light of the men.The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. John 1:1-5 Insight: Our devotional journey takes us for weeks and even […]