Faith
Weekly Devotionals
The Discipline of the Mind – Part 3
The Christlike mind counts for nothing what the world holds dear and holds as all-important what the world counts for...
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This Is My Classroom
**Today is our second devotional from the series "In the Classroom." How blessed we are to have Elisabeth share her...
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Whatever My Lot
Just after the Arab-Israeli war in 1967, I spent ten weeks in Jerusalem. One afternoon I was invited to have...
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Amy Carmichael, God’s Missionary (Part 1)
**This week we continue our quarterly theme of Elisabeth Elliot’s Heroes of the Faith with Part 1 of 2 on...
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Lilias Trotter
**This week we continue our quarterly theme of Elisabeth Elliot’s Heroes of the Faith. To discover more about Ms. Trotter’s...
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Why Did Jesus Die? – Pt. 2
Continued from last weeks devotional… Ezra the prophet, writing four centuries before Christ, knew nothing, of course, of the Cross,...
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Why Did Jesus Die? – Pt. 1
His popularity with the multitudes aroused jealousy in the teachers of the law. There was much muttering. "He is baptizing and...
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Maybe This Year . . .?
"I hardly know where to start," a recent letter begins. "My story is not one involving men. That's the problem....
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Faith Is Holding Out Your Hand
Sometimes when I was a child my mother or father would say, “Shut your eyes and hold out your hand.” That...
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Hidden Work
Few of us accomplish without delay or interruption what we set out to accomplish. Plans are made, and they fail....
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From Start To Finish
The great witnesses to faith in the eleventh chapter of Hebrews, beginning with Abel, who offered a sacrifice by faith,...
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I Will Not Be Afraid
News reports come every day concerning economic and political calamities about to befall us all, not to mention famines, tornadoes,...
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He Will Find a Place
Uncertainty is surely, for most of us, one of the harder lessons in faith. We look ahead and see only...
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Moonless Trust
Some of you are perhaps feeling that you are voyaging just now on a moonless sea. Uncertainty surrounds you. There...
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Invisible Blessings
Being very much of the earth—earthy—we always want tangible, visible things: proofs, demonstrations, something to latch on to. If we...
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Death Shall Not Hold Us
The power of the Resurrection is a power that vanquishes every other power in heaven or Earth. The battle was...
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A Strange Peace
Shortly before my daughter Valerie, my only child, went off to college as a freshman, a “sudden tide” came over...
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Learning the Father’s Love
When my brother Dave was very small, we spent a week at the seaside in Belmar, New Jersey. In vain...
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How to Discover What God Wants
A young woman came in great perplexity to a Scottish preacher, asking how she could resolve the question of her...
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The Future Is Not Our Province
While a new year offers us a fresh start, it can also bring anxiety. Questions crowd into our minds. Will...
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The World Must Be Shown
When Jesus was speaking with His disciples before His crucifixion, He gave them His parting gift: peace such as the...