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.
Romans 1:16-17 "For I am not ashamed of the gospel for it is the power of God for salvation to all who believe, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, 'The righteous shall live by faith.'" When The Lights Turn On Sometimes we have moments in life where it feels like we are converted...
Keep ReadingJohn 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 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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