Category: Daily Devotional

I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand. 1 Corinthians 16:19-24 As Paul draws to the end of his first letter to the Corinthians, he makes references to men and women whom the believers in Corinth knew personally. Thus, we have seen him speak of Timothy, Apollos, Stephanas, Fortunatus, and Achaicus. In today’s passage, he…

Ezekiel 11-13 Judgment on Wicked Counselors 11 The Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the east gate of the house of the Lord, which faces east. And behold, at the entrance of the gateway there were twenty-five men. And I saw among them Jaazaniah the son of Azzur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people. 2 And he…

Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. Let all that you do be done in love. 1 Corinthians 16:12-18 Even such “mundane” concerns as his travel plans are part of Paul’s Christianity as he outlined his intent to pass through Macedonia, his sending of Timothy, and his urging of Apollos to journey to Corinth…

Ezekiel 8-10 Abominations in the Temple 8 In the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house, with the elders of Judah sitting before me, the hand of the Lord God fell upon me there. 2 Then I looked, and behold, a form that had the appearance of a man.[a] Below what appeared to…

Ezekiel 5-7 Jerusalem Will Be Destroyed 5 “And you, O son of man, take a sharp sword. Use it as a barber’s razor and pass it over your head and your beard. Then take balances for weighing and divide the hair. 2 A third part you shall burn in the fire in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are…

Now concerning the collection for the saints: as I directed the churches of Galatia, so you also are to do. 1 Corinthians 16:1-4 Paul wrote in several of his epistles regarding collecting money to send to the church in Jerusalem because the Christians there were severely persecuted and very needy for help from fellow Christians. Such…

Ezekiel 1-2 Ezekiel in Babylon 1 In the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I was among the exiles by the Chebar canal, the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.[a] 2 On the fifth day of the month (it was the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin), 3 the word of the Lord came…

…the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. 1 Corinthians 15:50-58 The old covenant people increasingly understood that the Feast of Trumpets was not given to them simply as an end in itself but as a foretaste…

Lamentations 3-5 Great Is Your Faithfulness 3 I am the man who has seen affliction    under the rod of his wrath;2 he has driven and brought me    into darkness without any light;3 surely against me he turns his hand    again and again the whole day long. 4 He has made my flesh and my skin waste away;    he has broken my bones;5 he has besieged…

But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?”…God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body. 1 Corinthians 15:35-49 Many Christians have questions about life in heaven. How old will we be? If I died at age 85,…