Daily Devotionals

08/30/17

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…

08/29/17

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…

08/28/17

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…

08/27/17

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…

08/26/17

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…

08/25/17

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…

08/24/17

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….

08/23/17

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…

08/22/17

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…

08/19/17

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…