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free devotional guides for your quiet time
Someone shared the following: Proverbs 8: The chapter on wisdom.Verse 19 “My fruit is better than fine gold”.Verse 27 “I was there when he set the heavens in place” Timothy Keller preached that this wisdom here refers to the Word, i.e. Christ.And, the meaning of “wisdom” here include understanding, or, the true understanding of things. …
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Meditating on 1 Timothy 6:11-21 “Take hold of the eternal life” followed Paul’s advice to Timothy to “pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance and gentleness” and “Fight the good fight of the faith”. Ultimately, they form a clear path that every Christian should focus on and do. This is true spirituality. To the goal of godliness, …
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Meditating on 1 Timothy 6:6-10 Godliness is the expression in life about what we know of God. If we know God to be love, then godliness is to love. If God is faithful, then we too should be trustworthy people. If God is kind and compassionate, then as godly people we should be biased towards …
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Meditating on 1 Timothy 6:3-5. The Elder, in his sermon to the church, used a quote from a renowned Christian, basically saying that if the church is not evangelising then the church is as good as dead (I’m sorry because I cannot remember the exact quote and I’m paraphrasing from memory) and I remember thinking, …
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Meditating on 1 Timothy 5. Having had my eyes opened to this notion of “honour” as a life principle when I wrote the 2024 Week 09 devotion guide, and having had more time to think about it since I had used the guide this week, some of my thoughts have become clearer. “Honour” is in …
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Reflecting on John 2:13-25. The Jewish authorities who asked for a sign from Jesus believed that they were in the position to judge but the truth is that we are only called to recognise and respond. It is true in this time and age, with so many false and deceiving teachings that Christians have to …
I preached in church today and this is the text of my sermon. Perhaps it will help clarify some of your thoughts about worship. Last week we looked at Psalm 40 and Elder Peter pointed out to us that the proper action on our part is to wait for the Lord; God does the rest. …
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I was tasked to preach on the shepherds as a part of an ongoing series on the characters of Christmas. This is my sermon, verbatim. Good morning. The topic given to me is actually this long “Shepherds: As believers we must understand that the gospel reaches all people” and I decided to shorten it to …
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Galatians 1 and 2 (I was to preach on Galatians 2 last week and thought it would be a good idea to spend my quiet time on the text and that was why the devotion for Week 43 was on Galatians 1 and 2. Here is the text of my sermon. It is about 6 …
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After reading through what I wrote in the previous reflection, another thought came to me. In a recent discussion (this time in a teaching session with a number of people), someone asked “how can we love the unlovable?” Having spent some time on 1 John 4, I responded saying that we should go back to …
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