by Daily Devotionals | Jul 22, 2023 | Daily Devotional
Read: Romans 8:14-17 In a dusty village in Nepal near the shadows of Mount Everest, close to 80 percent of the girls are destined to be sold into brothels because they are the lowest subgroup of the lowest caste in the country, the Badi people. Their religion teaches...
by Daily Devotionals | Jul 21, 2023 | Daily Devotional
Read: Ephesians 1:3, 2 Corinthians 4:17 I nearly dropped the book when I read David Bentley Hart’s translation of the word “blessed” in the Bible. The famous scholar talks about how blessed has lost its meaning in our culture: it is used more or less as “lucky” or...
by Daily Devotionals | Jul 20, 2023 | Daily Devotional
Read: Romans 8:11 A local church once took a mission trip to build a church in a remote village in Russia. They were building the house of worship from the stones of an abandoned Russian prison. What a powerful scene! Careful attention was taken to preserve the...
by Daily Devotionals | Jul 19, 2023 | Daily Devotional
Read: Psalm 103:1, John 1:29 One of the primary ways we train our souls to love God is by preaching the Gospel to our souls. The more your soul sees the cross of Jesus, the more gratefulness and adoration will well up within you. Humans are conditioned to respond that...
by Daily Devotionals | Jul 18, 2023 | Daily Devotional
Read: Hebrews 2:1 My friend Ryan shares a story of a man named Mr. Bi who was a professor at Beijing University, known as “the Harvard of China.” He made a joke in class about the Communist party to a group of students. One of those students reported his joke to the...
by Daily Devotionals | Jul 17, 2023 | Daily Devotional
Read: Ephesians 3:16-19 What would happen if you woke up and reminded yourself of the Gospel every day? If you are like me, you are tempted to take the Gospel for granted and stop rehearsing it because it’s become so familiar. We store it in our story somewhere in the...
