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Daily Devotions
Am I a God nearby, says the Lord, and not a God far off? Who can hide in secret places so that I cannot see them? says the Lord. Do I not fill heaven and earth? says the Lord.” vss. 23-24 Jeremiah 23:23-26 Jeremiah knew the Lord intimately and understood that God was beyond human understanding. If we imagine that we can escape the scrutiny of the Lord by staying away from church or avoiding prayer or becoming atheists, we…
Daily Devotions
‘I am the Alpha and the Omega,’ says the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.” vs. 8 Revelation 1:5b-8 We’re used to the language John used to describe God. After all, many of us grew up with the hymn, Holy, Holy, Holy, and came to love the cadence of the words in the second verse, “Which wert, and art, and evermore shall be.” There’s a poetic quality to that description of God that…
Daily Devotions: April 29, 2019
April 29, 2019 For full passage click: Acts 9:1-3 …“Meanwhile Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest and asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any who belonged to the Way, men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.” vvv. 1-2 Saul loved the traditions, laws, and history of his people. He proudly claimed membership in the tribe of Benjamin…
Daily Devotions: April 21, 2018
April 21, 2018 John 10:11-15…“I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me, just as the Father knows me and I know the Father. And I lay down my life for the sheep.” vss. 14-15 As John recounted the words of Jesus, he often used the words “I AM” to remind his readers that Jesus was the one in whom the great “I AM” had become incarnate. Jesus was YHWH or I AM in human…