Category: Daily Devotion

Look at the ships also: though they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs. 5 So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire!…

  So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. James 2:17 – Imagine walking upon a crime scene and seeing a body lying on the ground. You check to see if the person is breathing, but you see no signs of that happening. You check the person’s pulse, but you…

  But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind. James 1:6 – I believe we’ve all likely been at this place before where we’ve prayed for something, yet the end result was still not receiving it. Likely…

  Therefore let us go to him outside the camp and bear the reproach he endured. Hebrews 13:13 – Spurgeon had a solid quote about this verse. “If you can dwell with the wicked, if you can live as they live, and be ‘hail-fellow well met’ with the ungodly, if their practices are your practices, if…

  But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering…Hebrews 12:22 – With our verse starting with the word “but,” we then know whatever was said in the previous verses we are making some sort of change from it. So what was…

  By faith he went to live in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise. Hebrews 11:9 – One of the things I prayed for when I was first married was to be able to have our own house one day. Thankfully,…

  But in these sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year.4 For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. Hebrews 10:3-4 – Thankfully we don’t have to bring animal sacrifices like the Jewish people had to in their worship of God, yet the lack of such a practice can cause…

  Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins. Hebrews 9:22 – Imagine someone who had just been found guilty of a crime. The judge declares their guilt and then goes on to proclaim their sentence. 20 years in prison, a hefty…

  Now the point in what we are saying is this: we have such a high priest, one who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven…Hebrews 8:1 – When I planned out my order for what books we’d cover in our 2025 reading plan, I didn’t purposefully have us…

  For on the one hand, a former commandment is set aside because of its weakness and uselessness 19 (for the law made nothing perfect); but on the other hand, a better hope is introduced, through which we draw near to God. Hebrews 7:18-19 – The writer of Hebrews was challenging some firmly established belief systems for the Jewish people here.…