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Witness: Reflecting the Light

Today Daily Devotional ·

2025/09/10

[John] himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light.— John 1:8 When we think about sharing our faith, we are often nervous about having the right words to say. What if I say something wrong? What if someone asks me a question I don’t know how to answer? What kind of witness would that be? I love how the gospel of John describes the work of John the Baptist. It is a reassuring description of what it means to be an evangelist (a messenger) for Jesus. We are told that John came

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Witness: Me? An Evangelist?

Today Daily Devotional ·

2025/09/09

When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?” — John 4:7 Many Christians are uneasy about sharing the gospel message. We don’t want to say the wrong thing or offend people or push them away. I remember how scared I was the one time I did door-to-door evangelism. As a teenager I volunteered in the summer with a group of young people in a neighborhood church. We led vacation Bible school for kids living nearby, and when we followed up to visit with the

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Witness: I Can’t Help It!

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2025/09/08

“As for us, we cannot help speaking about what we have seen and heard.” — Acts 4:20 When we see or experience something extraordinary, usually we can’t help telling people about it. Whether it is an encounter with a celebrity or a wonderful vacation or a life-changing event, we want to share it. As a young teen, I witnessed the launch of one of the first space shuttles. You can be sure I told all my friends about it when I got back home! This week, as we think about God’s big mission, let’s focus

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Sabbath: Rest

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2025/09/07

“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” — Matthew 11:28 Today is Sunday, so let’s pause our focus on mission themes and take some time out for worship and rest. This is important, because missions can easily focus on all the things we are called to do. And, at times, talking about God’s mission can leave us feeling guilty about things we are not doing. So today we remember that we do not carry the world on our shoulders. We take a day to worship, meditate on

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Gospel: You’ve Been Invited!

Today Daily Devotional ·

2025/09/06

Jesus replied, “A certain man was preparing a great banquet and invited many guests.” — Luke 14:16 Thinking about the gospel reminds us that at the heart of the Christian faith is a life- changing message of joy. That’s why I like this parable so much. Jesus uses a powerful metaphor to describe life with him in the kingdom of God: a great banquet. In Jesus’ day, banquets often celebrated important events in the community. In fact, Jesus’ first miracle took place at a wedding banquet. To spare the

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Gospel: Radical Transformation

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2025/09/05

Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. — Romans 6:8 As we think about the Lord’s good news, the gospel, it is important to be aware of the radical change it brings to our lives. A few years ago, I had the privilege of baptizing Ava, a recent immigrant from Iran. Her journey began when she found out that her neighbor, a woman from our church, was a Christian. Ava had lots of questions, and that led to many months of one-on-one Bible study, in which Ava felt safe to

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Gospel: A Humble Witness

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2025/09/04

God exalted him to the highest place . . . that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow . . . and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord. . . .— Philippians 2:9-11 When I was a pastor, one of the churches I served celebrated Ascension Day with a midweek worship service. That meant extra preparation work for me, and I admit that sometimes I resented having to do that extra work. One year, in front of a small crowd on a Thursday evening, I delivered a hastily produced sermon. And

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Gospel: You Are Loved!

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2025/09/03

This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.— 1 John 4:10 My wife, Jacquie, is a teacher in a Christian elementary school. One day she asked her students to complete this sentence: “Jesus loves me because . . .” Almost every student answered with phrases like “Because I am sometimes kind to my sister” or “Because I try to do my best in school.” It was interesting to hear that almost all of the students connected Jesus’ love with

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Gospel: A Definition

Today Daily Devotional ·

2025/09/02

Jesus went through all the towns and villages . . . proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness. — Matthew 9:35 The first word we want to focus on as we think about God’s big mission is gospel. Here is a definition of the gospel that I think captures just how big and amazing this good news is: “The gospel is the good news of God’s reign, grace, and love in and through Christ for the redemption and renewal of all things.” This definition shapes everything we do

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A Big God. A Big Mission.

Today Daily Devotional ·

2025/09/01

Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous deeds among all peoples.— Psalm 96:3 Recently our young grandson was lying quietly in his bed. Suddenly he piped up with a question: “Mommy, if God made everything, then who made God?” What a good question! And just how big is God? Psalm 96 reminds us that we serve the God of the universe. As followers of Christ, we are brought into a life-giving relationship with our big and marvelous God who not only rules the heavens and the earth but also

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Good and Faithful Servant

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2025/08/31

“When you are old you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will dress you and lead you where you do not want to go.” — John 21:18 When Peter questioned Jesus’ prediction about his death on the cross, the Lord strongly rebuked him (Matthew 16:21-23). Later, on the lakeshore where Jesus restored Peter, directing him to feed his sheep (John 21:15-17), Jesus predicted Peter’s death. Though the details are unclear, Christian tradition has taught that the apostle Peter, while serving as a

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Waiting is the Hardest Part

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2025/08/30

Do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. — 2 Peter 3:8 A line in a popular song says, “The waiting is the hardest part.” Why is waiting so hard? Waiting can bring anxiety and a feeling of helplessness. Today, nearly 2,000 years after the apostle Peter wrote about this, we’re still waiting for Jesus’ return, when the Lord will make all things new. Peter’s readers, Christian exiles suffering hardship, are asking,

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Using Our Gift of Faith

Today Daily Devotional ·

2025/08/29

His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. — 2 Peter 1:3 Have you ever received gifts that you opened but never used? Sometimes the gifts we receive don’t have any practical use. God has given us the greatest gift of all that we can use every day. Are we using it? In his second letter to Christians scattered across Asia Minor (present-day Turkey), the apostle Peter reminds his readers that the faith

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Big Cat!

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2025/08/28

Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour.— 1 Peter 5:8 Appreciation for cats is not universal. Kittycats, like lions, evoke a mixed response. In the Bible a lion can represent the sovereign strength of God—as in “the Lion of the tribe of Judah” (Revelation 5:5). Or think of Aslan, who represents Jesus in the Chronicles of Narnia. Peter mentions a different sort of lion, though, at the end of his first letter to early

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Ugly Pets

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2025/08/27

Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.— 1 Peter 4:8 I’ve heard it said that grudges are like “ugly pets.” And if we let them, those ugly pets will sit on our shoulders while we feed and pamper them. Actually, grudges will weigh us down, and eventually they can consume us. So how do we get rid of a grudge? The apostle Peter offers just the right formula for killing pet grudges. Throughout his letter to Christians who are facing hardship and persecution in

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Resident Aliens

Today Daily Devotional ·

2025/08/26

In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. — 1 Peter 1:6 During the 19 years that our family lived in China, we were “resident aliens.” We were living in one country, but we had citizenship in another. Writing to Christians who were scattered throughout Asia Minor (present-day Turkey), Peter reminds them that they are like resident aliens, citizens of two worlds. When he wrote his first letter, Peter was likely in his

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A Confrontation

Today Daily Devotional ·

2025/08/25

When Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned. — Galatians 2:11 After his formative, life-changing encounter with Cornelius the centurion, Peter and others led the early church in understanding God’s grace for all people (see Acts 10-11, 15). Later, however, Peter tended to favor Jesus’ Jewish followers, while Paul continued working for the Lord as a missionary to Gentiles (Acts 9, 13-14, 16-28). Though Peter believed that Jesus’ love was for all people, he

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A Divine Appointment

Today Daily Devotional ·

2025/08/24

“Surely no one can stand in the way of their being baptized with water. They have received the Holy Spirit just as we have.”— Acts 10:47 Have you heard the saying “The more things change, the more they stay the same”? Though Jesus had come to change the spiritual lives of all who would believe in him as Savior, some things in the lives of Peter and others remained the same. But a divine appointment changed everything. As a leader in the early church, Peter set an example for the Jewish followers

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A Sobering Moment

Today Daily Devotional ·

2025/08/23

Peter said to her, “How could you conspire to test the Spirit of the Lord?” — Acts 5:9 “Kill the chicken to scare the monkey,” says a Chinese proverb. In other words, put the fear of punishment into people, and they will not break the rules. Is that what Peter does in this unnerving story about Ananias and Sapphira? In the early chapters of Acts, the writer Luke includes progress reports on the growth and character of the early church. At the end of Acts 4 we read that the believers were “one in

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What to Say?

Today Daily Devotional ·

2025/08/22

“When they arrest you, do not worry about what to say or how to say it. At that time you will be given what to say, for it will not be you speaking, but the Spirit. . . .” — Matthew 10:19 Are you ever at a loss for words? I am, at times, in difficult or sensitive situations, where the cost might be high. In our reading for today, we see Peter and John living out a promise that Jesus had given them—that the Holy Spirit would provide them with words in difficult situations. Jesus had commissioned

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