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Priscilla and Aquila

Today Daily Devotional ·

2025/02/19

When Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they invited him to their home and explained to him the way of God more adequately. — Acts 18:26 Aquila and Priscilla were an amazing couple. They were not missionaries or ministers. They were tentmakers (or leather workers) by trade—laypeople who were used mightily by the Lord. They moved from Rome to Corinth, where Paul met them. He was also a tentmaker, so he lived and worked with them. After some time, Paul moved on to Ephesus, and Priscilla and Aquila went

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“Heal the Sick”

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2025/02/18

“Heal the sick who are there and tell them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near to you.’” — Luke 10:9 As a missionary, I sometimes traveled with health-care workers from the Luke Society, a medical mission organization, to remote villages in the Philippines. There we met people who usually didn’t have access to healthcare. The Luke Society workers were able to diagnose and treat illnesses and provide dental care, and we all shared the love and good news of salvation in Christ. Sometimes this work

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The Other Side of Hospitality

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2025/02/17

“When you enter a house, first say, ‘Peace to this house.’ . . . Stay there, eating and drinking whatever they give you.” — Luke 10:5-7 We were heading south from Bacolod City in the Philippines, convoying with other vehicles for a church retreat. As we entered Valladolid, I found that our car’s brakes weren’t working. So we hobbled into a service station near the center of town. “Sure, we can fix it,” they said. “Don’t worry.” But I did worry. I didn’t know if I could trust them to do the job

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Hospitality Bridges Barriers

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2025/02/16

Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it.— Hebrews 13:2 During my first year as a missionary on Panay Island in the Philippines, while I was still single, I heard someone knocking at my gate. It was Pastor Raul and his wife, Valerie, and they informed me that they would stay with me for a few days. Raul had been one of my students a couple years earlier on Negros Island. They had arrived a few days early for a

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“We are God’s Light in This Place”

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2025/02/15

You were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light (for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth). . . . — Ephesians 5:8-9 For a few years we rented a small fourth-floor apartment in a five-story tenement in Manila, the Philippines. Jason, the building manager, was a follower of Jesus. He led adult Sunday school classes in his church at times, and because I was a seminary teacher he would sometimes ask me for help in planning his

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Love, Respect, and the Image of God

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2025/02/14

The commandments . . . are summed up in this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” — Romans 13:9 I thank God for the opportunities I’ve had to visit many countries and to live in several of them for a long while. All of this has given me a fascination for cultural differences. The differences in food alone can delight the palate (or sometimes unsettle the stomach). Some societies are egalitarian; others are hierarchical. Some encourage dependence on one another, emphasizing community;

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Welcome!

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2025/02/13

A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows. . . . God sets the lonely in families, he leads out the prisoners with singing. . . . — Psalm 68:5-6 “Welcome to the family; we’re glad that you have come to share your life with us as we grow in love. . . .” During my first year in the Philippines, I often heard this song at the beginning or end of a worship service, as people in church would go around shaking hands and welcoming new people. I was single and a foreigner, and at times I felt

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Jesus, the Way to Salvation

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2025/02/12

“I am sending you to them to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins. . . .” — Acts 26:17-18 Here the apostle Paul describes how his life turned around when he met Jesus. The Lord called him to be a witness to the Gentiles (non-Jews) so that they too could receive salvation. And Paul did that for the rest of his life. Jesus calls us, too, to spread the good news that he came to save us. But this is highly

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“Why Hasn’t Anyone Come to Tell Us?”

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2025/02/11

How can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? — Romans 10:14 In the Philippines there was a tribal group in the mountains that had never heard the good news of Jesus. Some of our missionary friends learned that the chieftain, who communicated with demonic spirits, performed a yearly sacrifice and scattered blood around the community as an atonement for the bad things people had done toward each other. They believed that one

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Yes, I Do!

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2025/02/10

The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. — Romans 6:23 We didn’t overload Sharon (see Feb. 9) right away with all kinds of information on how to become a Christian when she first attended our group. We simply explained the way of salvation and knew that the Holy Spirit would keep working in her to bring her to faith in Christ. During those weeks I was training our group members in several ways to present the way of salvation. One day I explained how

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Links in a Salvation Chain

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2025/02/09

The first thing Andrew did was to find his brother Simon and tell him, “We have found the Messiah.” . . . And he brought him to Jesus.— John 1:41-42 The first time Sharon came to our Bible study group in Beijing, she introduced herself this way: “My name is Sharon. I’m not a Christian yet, but I want to know how to become one.” God was obviously working in Sharon’s life before she came to our group. She was seeing Christ at work in people around her, and someone had brought her to our group. It’s

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Crossing the Bridge From Death to Life

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2025/02/08

“Whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and . . . has crossed over from death to life.” — John 5:24 I was with a group going house to house in the Philippines to share the way of salvation. We used simple tracts that featured the Bridge Illustration—showing Jesus as the bridge from death to life. In the doorway of a palm-thatched house I spoke with a middle-aged woman and her teenage daughter, who was nursing an infant. The illustration pictured a chasm with a cliff on

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Languages are Fun!

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2025/02/07

“Aren’t all these who are speaking Galileans? Then how is it that each of us hears them in our native language?” — Acts 2:7-8 When I arrived in Iloilo City in the Philippines, I lived with a Filipino family for several months. They had two girls, ages 5 and 6, who loved having a kuya (older brother) in their home. When they started unexpectedly entering my room to chat with me, I realized that boundaries were needed. So I said in Ilonggo, “You need to ask first before entering my room.” Then they

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The Waffle Problem

Today Daily Devotional ·

2025/02/06

[Jesus] himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility. — Ephesians 2:14 When you pour syrup on a breakfast waffle, the little ridges and squares in the waffle catch the syrup and keep it from spreading out evenly. So you end up putting lots of syrup on your waffle, and that may not be so good for your health. On a pancake the syrup spreads more easily. The world is more like a waffle than a pancake. A map of Nigeria, for

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Empowered to be Christ’s Witnesses

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2025/02/05

“You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” — Acts 1:8 Here Jesus tells his followers that his purpose in sending the Holy Spirit is to empower them to be his witnesses. They are to bring the good news of his coming kingdom “to the ends of the earth.” Jesus’ witnesses testify to what they have seen, learned, and experienced, describing how the Lord has worked in their life and in

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Every Nation, People, and Language

Today Daily Devotional ·

2025/02/04

Before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. — Revelation 7:9 God gave the apostle John a magnificent vision of a diverse multitude—people from every part of the human family—forming a great chorus worshiping the Lord and proclaiming his victory over evil. This vision portrays what believers in Christ have been laboring and praying for through the centuries. The goal of God’s mission in

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The Curtain is Torn

Today Daily Devotional ·

2025/02/03

When Jesus had cried out . . . in a loud voice, he gave up his spirit. At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. — Matthew 27:50-51 At the moment Jesus died, the curtain in the temple was torn open “from top to bottom.” The temple represented God’s presence among his people. The innermost section was called the Most Holy Place, and God’s presence was focused especially in that room. A thick curtain separated it from the rest of the temple, and only one person,

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Broken-hearted God

Today Daily Devotional ·

2025/02/02

The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled.— Genesis 6:6 Ancient Greek philosophers imagined a perfect supreme being. It would know everything and be in control of everything. It could not be influenced by people or other creatures, because that would imply weakness or lack of control. It could not have emotions or be truly responsive to humans. The Greeks called this supreme being God. The early Christian church developed in a world that was

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Locked Out

Today Daily Devotional ·

2025/02/01

The Lord God banished him from the Garden . . . [and] placed . . . cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life. — Genesis 3:23-24 God placed our first parents, Adam and Eve, in a beautiful garden filled with wonderful plants, wildlife, and abundant food (Genesis 2:8-25). God himself was present there and took walks with them in “the cool of the day”; but Adam and Eve fell into sin, disobeying God’s command to them (Gen. 3:1-11). And as we read at the

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Finish Well!

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2025/01/31

No one has ever shown the mighty power or performed the awesome deeds that Moses did in the sight of all Israel. — Deuteronomy 34:12 Moses remained committed to the Lord until the very end of his life. He was a child of God, a diligent leader of God’s people, a prophet, and much more. Moses is described as a “man of God” and a “servant of the Lord” in the closing chapters of Deuteronomy. He knew who he was and whose he was. That makes a difference in one’s life. Moses was faithful. Though he was

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