Category: Daily Devotional

Lamentations 1-2 How Lonely Sits the City 1 How lonely sits the city    that was full of people!How like a widow has she become,    she who was great among the nations!She who was a princess among the provinces    has become a slave. 2 She weeps bitterly in the night,    with tears on her cheeks;among all her lovers    she has none to comfort her;all her friends have…

Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? 1 Corinthians 15:12-34 For every Christian, suffering in this life is a given. It is important to note that we can have hope in our suffering only if there is an afterlife,…

Jeremiah 51-52 The Utter Destruction of Babylon 51 Thus says the Lord:“Behold, I will stir up the spirit of a destroyer    against Babylon,    against the inhabitants of Leb-kamai,[a]2 and I will send to Babylon winnowers,    and they shall winnow her,and they shall empty her land,    when they come against her from every side    on the day of trouble.3 Let not the archer bend his bow,    and let…

Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with…

Jeremiah 48-49 Judgment on Moab 48 Concerning Moab. Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “Woe to Nebo, for it is laid waste!    Kiriathaim is put to shame, it is taken;the fortress is put to shame and broken down;2     the renown of Moab is no more.In Heshbon they planned disaster against her:    ‘Come, let us cut her off from being a nation!’You…

For God is not a God of confusion but of peace. 1 Corinthians 14:26-40 Today the so-called “worship wars” rage between those who prefer traditional services and those who want to adopt a more “contemporary” form of worship. Frequently, the choice is framed as one between “liturgical” and “non-liturgical” worship. However, the distinction is not so…

Jeremiah 46-47 Judgment on Egypt 46 The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations. 2 About Egypt. Concerning the army of Pharaoh Neco, king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates at Carchemish and which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon defeated in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: 3 “Prepare buckler…

But in the church I would rather speak five intelligible words to instruct others than ten thousand words in a tongue. 1 Corinthians 14:1-25 Paul says that intelligible speech is superior to the exercise of tongues in corporate worship because when people understand the language being spoken, they are able to be built up in…

Jeremiah 43-45 Jeremiah Taken to Egypt 43 When Jeremiah finished speaking to all the people all these words of the Lord their God, with which the Lord their God had sent him to them, 2 Azariah the son of Hoshaiah and Johanan the son of Kareah and all the insolent men said to Jeremiah, “You are telling a lie. The Lord our God did not send you…

And I will show you a still more excellent way. 1 Corinthians 13 Paul introduces this well-known passage with a statement ending chapter 12. These verses make up a most-beloved passage of the New Testament on Paul’s exposition of love. Paul stresses, first, love’s absolute necessity in the Christian life by writing of present things…