Tag: worship
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Worship This
Acts 17:22–31; 1 Peter 3:13–4:6 (read online ⧉) Worship. We view this as a core function of what we are to do as Christians. We worship the one true God, who is mysteriously Three-in-One. In some respects, and more practically, worship is acting in a reverential state toward something greater than the self. If analyzed…
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Oath Busting
Genesis 13:1–18; Numbers 13:30–14:4; Numbers 14:36–45 (read online ⧉) God had made a promise to Abraham. As God is the make of the promise, following yesterday’s devotion, it was an oath. Abraham’s descendants would flourish in the land that Abraham would walk. At the time of Lot’s and Abraham’s separation, the land that Lot had…
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Worship Space
Exodus 35:21–36:7; 1 Chronicles 28:9–21; 2 Kings 12:4–16 (read online ⧉) When things return to normal, well, they probably won’t return to the past normal. In fact, who knows what the new normal will look like. Will places such as churches have to remodel to meet the new “physical separation” expectation? Really. While we may…
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Holy Night
29 April 2020 Devotional Genesis 1:1–19; Genesis 22:17–18; Psalm 134 (read online ⧉) I try to settle, but I just pass throughA rain dog, gypsyA wandering JewAll those homes were not oursThen I slept one nightIn Abraham’s fieldAnd dreamt there was no moonThe night he diedCounting stars from The Orphan by the Newsboys One of…
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A Time of Distress
Deuteronomy 4:25–31; Jonah 2:1–10; Matthew 9:35–38 (read online ⧉) Moses is not all that optimistic about the future spiritual health of the people of Israel. He’s downright pessimistic about what paths they will follow away from God. There is something in today’s opening verse that is important, “When you…have been in the land a long…
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New, not Renewed
Jeremiah 31:31–34; Psalm 51:1–12; John 12:20–33 (read online ⧉) The promise of a new covenant was good news! A people who were lost and broken, many of whom knew that they had fallen away from God received the positive and hopeful news that there would be a new covenant. The problem was when and how…
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Loving Intercession
Psalm 51:1-12; Exodus 30:1-10; Hebrews 4:14-5:10 (read online ⧉) Incense was used as part of the priests’ daily worship of God. It was a prescribed practice. Priests had a number of prescribed practices that they were regularly responsible for. They were constantly doing their tasks before God, both to honor him and be the representative…
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Redemption in the Darkness
Psalm 107:1–16; Isaiah 60:15-22; John 8:12-20 (read online ⧉) Psalm 107:2–3Let the redeemed of the Lord say so,those he redeemed from troubleand gathered in from the lands,from the east and from the west,from the north and from the south. Isaiah’s stirring vision for Jerusalem is that not only of restoration but also claiming a prominent…