Posts from June 2025 (Page 3)
Daily Devotions
For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God.” vs. 14 Romans 8:14-17 When we read Paul’s letter to the Romans it’s not easy to understand his carefully reasoned arguments and admonitions. Even when we engage in serious study there are some things that we miss–the words he uses are not familiar to us and we may not even care much about the things he’s passionate about. In general, what he wanted his readers to…
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When you send forth your spirit, they are created; and you renew the face of the ground.” vs. 30 Psalm 104:27-34, 35b From the beginning believers have associated the gift of life with the breath of God. Certainly, that’s the central theme of the creation story in Genesis 2, where the Lord, having formed the man from the dust of the earth, breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. The psalmist goes further and credits that same breath or…
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O Lord, how manifold are your works! In wisdom you have made them all, the earth is full of your creatures. Yonder is the sea, great and wide, creeping things innumerable are there, living things both small and great.” vss. 24-26 Psalm 104:24-26 The psalmist believed that he could glimpse the Divine Presence by observing the creation and he’s right. Even the most jaded among us can’t help but be amazed at the variety and surprises the earth offers every…
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In the last days it will be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.” vs. 17 Acts 2:14-21 Luke decided that the best way to describe the explosion of Holy Spirit power that had occurred in Jerusalem after Jesus’ resurrection was to go back to the Hebrew scriptures and the words of the…
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When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting.” vss. 1-2 Acts 2:1-13 It’s not surprising that John and Luke would describe the coming of the Holy Spirit in different ways. If accounts of such a mysterious and wondrous event written down decades apart were identical, we’d likely be suspicious.…
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I made your name known to them, and I will make it known, so that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.” vs. 26 John 16:24-26 From the time of his baptism Jesus was convinced that God loved him, and he described that love in very personal terms. It was like the love of a father for an only son, and he spent the rest of his life exploring the extent…