The simplicity of the Gospel gives what the complexity of human wisdom promises but never delivers.
From Micah 6:8: “He has told you, O mortal, what is good, and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice and to love kindness and to walk humbly with your God?”
John MacArthur (born 1939) is an American pastor and Christian author.
Always
With Jesus
Walking with courage
Strengthened through Risen grace
Victorious
Blessed
Beyond earth
Eyes upon Savior
Embracing His timeless grace
Salvation
Faith’s
Eternal light
Departing from darkness
Journey trusts Messiah’s grace
Promises
Oh! Yes, I do love Jesus, because He first loved me.
From Colossians 1:18: “He is the head of the body, the church; He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He might come to have first place in everything.”
Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892) was an influential English preacher. Even in modern times, his writings and many sermons have remained a constant source of encouragement to Christians around the world. He has often be referred to as the “Prince of Preachers.”
From Psalm 118:1: “O give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; His steadfast love endures forever!”
Christ shall endure forever
Witnessing His steadfast love
Forgiveness heals brokenness
Righteousness flows from above
Christ journeys to Calvary
Bringing man’s darkness with Him
Sin’s valley of death’s shadow
Light waiting at heaven’s rim
Christ becomes faith’s cornerstone
Yielding to Father’s design
Truth waiting at Roman cross
Sacred blood pays every fine
Christ foils enemy’s insults
Shedding eternity’s wrath
Love borne, no matter its cost
Promised grace reveals faith’s path
Christ builds heaven’s trusted bridge
Rising from now empty tomb
Passion’s flames light mercy’s quest
Brought forth into Father’s room
From Psalm 118:19: “Open to me the gates of righteousness, that I may enter through them and give thanks to the Lord.”
Every path that leads to heaven is trodden by willing feet. No one is ever driven to paradise.
From Psalm 119:105: “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.”
Howard Crosby (1826-1891) was an American pastor and academic professor.
From Psalm 51:1-2: “Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your steadfast love; according to Your abundant mercy, blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.”
Heart feeling empty of faith
Crushing embers of hope
Wilderness of transgressions
Walking next slippery slope
Born into journey of sin
Following darkest road
Thorns of guilt penetrate soul
Stumbling under burden’s load
Year after year, without joy
Lowering head in shame
Chained to enemy’s false words
Searching emptiness in flames
Light shines upon Calvary
Breathing with Savior’s grace
Forgiven steps fill with hope
Ending sin’s unfruitful race
Deliverance filled with truth
Witnessing faith’s clean heart
Every sunrise guarantees
Elevating life’s fresh start
From Psalm 51:10-12: “Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me. Do not cast me away from Your presence, and do not take Your holy spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, and sustain in me a willing spirit.”
Unseen by human eyes, a great exchange took place as Jesus hung on the cross. He took all our sin upon Him and bore the wrath of every single one . . . past, present, and future.
From Romans 8:38-39: “For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Charles Stanley (1932-2023) was an American pastor and Christian writer. He was dedicated to leading a teaching ministry.
Witnessing
Savior’s light
Tomorrow will wait
Worry less, pray more
Today
Receiving
Savior’s peace
Burdens take rest
Healing waters of grace
Hope
Fulfilling
Savior’s love
Forgiveness erases darkness
Walking mercy’s Emmaus Road
Redemption
This series of poems (written in the German-inspired style of Elfchen or Elevenie) shares a total of eleven words in each poem, with a sequence by line of one, two, three, four, and one words.
Our Lord received Himself in the fire of sorrow, He was saved not from the hour, but out of the hour.
From John 12:27-28: “Now My soul is troubled. And what should I say: ‘Father, save Me from this hour’? No, it is for this reason that I have come to this hour. Father, glorify Your name. Then a voice came from heaven, ‘I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.'”
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917) was a Scottish evangelist and Christian teacher. Following his death from an illness while in Egypt during World War I, his wife took on the task of transcribing the detailed notes she had written from his lectures and sermons. Gertrude Hobbs Chambers’ efforts resulted in the publication in 1924 of MY UTMOST FOR HIS HIGHEST. I frequently read from this devotional, and it has greatly deepened my faith and understanding of God’s Word.
From Isaiah 43:19: “I am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth; do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.”
Be prepared to be surprised
Promises shall be fulfilled
God honors His divine Word
From wilderness, truth rebuilds
Faith’s path to mighty waters
Savior’s life rising from death
Light’s mercy conquers darkness
Resurrection’s living breath
Deliverance from sin’s death
Salvation wipes away tears
Harvest of grace bearing joy
Witness Jesus, He appears
Flesh left at Calvary’s cross
Righteousness offers new road
Christ buys freedom with His blood
Gather love from seeds He sowed
Courage found in Savior’s steps
Invitation to see ahead
Holy Spirit left to guide
Nourished with God’s daily bread
From Psalm 126:5-6: “May those who sow in tears reap with shouts of joy. Those who go out weeping, bearing the seed for sowing, shall come home with shouts of joy, carrying their sheaves.”
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