Daily Devotionals
The Poor Always With Us?
August 30, 2017 Daily ReadingsPsalm 8Exodus 2:15b-22Psalm 18:1-3, 20-32Isaiah 28:14-22This week’s sermon text: Matthew 26:6-13 Field NotesMy wife called, “I don’t know whether to be happy or sad? A car…
Jealous for God
August 29, 2017 Daily ReadingPsalm 8Exodus 2:11-15aRomans 11:33-36Psalm 18:1-3, 20-32Deuteronomy 32:18-20, 28-39This week’s sermon text: Romans 11:33-36 Field NotesHow can God be a jealous God? Isn’t jealousy sinful? When we…
From the Written to the Living Word of God
August 28, 2017 Daily ReadingPsalm 8Exodus 1:1-7Romans 2:1-111 Samuel 7:3-13This week’s sermon text: Psalm 18:1-3, 20-32 Field NotesForty-one years ago, as he was about to read the Scripture, a pastor…
Prophetic Forgiveness
August 26, 2017 Daily Reading (Click to read each Scripture)Genesis 50:15-26This week’s sermon text: Romans 3:9-26 Field NotesI worked with inner-city youth for several years. One day we were studying…
The Power of Prayer
August 25, 2017 Daily Reading (Click to read each Scripture)Psalm 138This week’s sermon text: Romans 3:9-26 Field NotesWhat a beautiful vision of prayer we find in Psalm 138! The Psalmist…
Prayer-Filled
August 24, 2017 Daily Reading (Click to read each Scripture)1 Corinthians 6:1-11This week’s sermon text: Romans 3:9-26 Field NotesFor me, the passage today from 1 Corinthians is in many ways…
A New Vision of Prayer
August 23, 2017 Daily Reading (Click to read each Scripture)Matthew 8:1-13This week’s sermon text: Romans 3:9-26 Field NotesThis passage in Matthew is a riveting story of power dynamics at play….
Standing in Awe of God
August 22, 2017 Daily Reading (Click to read each Scripture)Romans 11:13-29This week’s sermon text: Romans 3:9-26 Field NotesIn today’s passage, Paul is asking the Gentile Christians in Rome not to…
Filled with the Spirit
August 21, 2017 Daily Reading (Click to read each Scripture)Psalm 130This week’s sermon text: Romans 3:9-26 Field NotesI was having coffee this morning with a pastor from the Korean United…
The Dusty Hem
August 19, 2017 Daily Reading (Click to read each Scripture)Genesis 42:1-28Matthew 14:34-36Psalm 133 This week’s sermon text: Romans 2:1-7, 11-16 Field NotesIf you heard that a holy man was in…