Lent is a season of fasting as we prepare for Easter. For 40 days (including 6 Sundays) beginning on Ash Wednesday and ending on Palm Sunday, the Church responds to the atoning death of Christ. This is a season of joy and sorrow, eagerly waiting and silently longing, sure hope and battling unbelief.
As part of Lent, we learn to focus on what matters most during this season of fasting. These devotionals are meant to be read each day in order to help you focus on what matters most -- The grace of God in Jesus Christ for sinners.
John 1:1 "The Word was God". "I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He woul...
Keep Reading"Jesus, knowingthat the Father had given all things into his hands, and thathe had come from God andwas going back to God, rose from supper. He laid aside his outer garments, and taking a towel,tied it around his waist. Then hepoured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him." - John 13:3-5 Text: J...
Keep Reading"For itwas fitting that he,for whom and by whom all things exist, in bringing many sonsto glory, should make thefounder of their salvationperfect through suffering." - Hebrews 2:10 Text: Hebrews 2:10, Hebrews 12:2 The author of the book of Hebrews gives Jesus an interesting title: the Founder of Our Salvation. The word we translate as "Founder" here is the Greek word...
Keep Reading"Andthe Wordbecame flesh anddwelt among us,and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Sonfrom the Father, full ofgrace andtruth." - John 1:14 Text: Hebrews 2:5-18 Why did God become man? Many people, throughout history and even today, have asked this question. Why was it necessary for Christ, the Word of God, to take on our flesh and dwell amongst us? The answer to...
Keep ReadingRomans 3:10-12, 20 "None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one...For by works of the law no human being will be justified in His sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin." The Type of Jesus We Want You better watch out. You better not cry...
Keep Reading"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." John 1:1 Knowing Christ is the definition of being a Christian. Take Christ out of Christianity and you lose its meaning. Unfortunately, we are living in days of biblical illiteracy even though it is more available than ever. We have become more preoccupied with trinkets than the Treasure....
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