Daily Devotions

Exo. 32:2‭-‬6 And Aaron said to them, “Break off the golden earrings which are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.” So all the people broke off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron. And he received the gold from…

Mt. 26:73‭-‬75 And a little later those who stood by came up and said to Peter, “Surely you also are one of them, for your speech betrays you.” Then he began to curse and swear, saying, “I do not know the Man!” Immediately a rooster crowed. And Peter remembered the word of Jesus who had…

Lk. 10:40‭-‬42 But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she approached Him and said, “Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to serve alone?  Therefore, tell her to help me.”  And Jesus answered and said to her, “Martha, Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things.  But one thing…

Lk. 15:28‭-‬32 But [the older son] was angry and would not go in.  Therefore, his father came out and pleaded with him.  So he answered and said to his father, “Lo, these many years I have been serving you; I never transgressed your commandment at any time; and yet you never gave me a young…

1Sam. 17:23‭-‬25 Then as he talked with them, there was the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, coming up from the armies of the Philistines; and he spoke according to the same words.  So David heard them.  And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him and were…

Jon. 4:6‭-‬11 And the Lord God prepared a plant and made it come up over Jonah, that it might be shade for his head to deliver him from his misery. So Jonah was very grateful for the plant. But as morning dawned the next day God prepared a worm, and it so damaged the plant…

Mt. 26:44‭-‬46 So He left them, went away again, and prayed the third time, saying the same words. Then He came to His disciples and said to them, “Are you still sleeping and resting? Behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of sinners. Rise, let…

Pro. 27:10 Do not forsake your own friend or your father’s friend, nor go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity; better is a neighbor nearby than a brother far away. Regardless of one’s culture, the instutution of family carries some common characteristics for all.  This might escape us in our modern…

Pro. 22:24-25 Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man, lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare. This particular translation of these verses gives us a bit more insight into the kind of person we need to avoid in friendship.  Other translations refer to…

Pro. 27:17 As iron sharpens iron, so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend. My countenance is my face.  When I come to someone else’s mind, I expect that it is similar to when others come to my mind.  Thinking of the image of a person, we think of the person’s face.  After all,…