Morning Devotions

Who Made Your Mouth?: Exodus 4:10-17

March 11, 2025

Rev. Derek Rishmawy brings us a message from Exodus 4:10-17.

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God is for Us: Psalm 46

March 6, 2025

Trials and sufferings convince us that God has abandoned us, but Psalm 46 reminds us that God is with us and for us, even when it feels like everything and everyone is against us.

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The Chief of Sinners: 1 Timothy 1:12-17

March 4, 2025

The glory of the gospel is that Jesus came into the world to save great sinners like you and me. In yet another act of overflowing mercy, he chooses to use us to display his grace to the world.

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Growing Down: Isaiah 6:1-8 | Rev. Jesse Pirschel

February 25, 2025

While all agree that progressive sanctification is important but does the Scripture view progress the same way we do? Is growth in the Christian life an acquisition of more strength or is it reckoning with our weakness? This devotion hopes to wrestle with the strength of weakness in the Christian life.

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Judge the Ministry With Right Judgment: John 7:14-24

February 18, 2025

If you are a faithful pastor you will suffer rejection. But as you persevere in serving others with God’s power, truth and love, like Jesus, you win by losing.

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A Sojourner’s Long Psalm: Psalm 119

February 14, 2025

Psalm 119 provides an extended insight into the psalmist’s spiritual experience as a suffering sojourner looking ahead to God’s mysterious but sure deliverance.

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Open Their Eyes: 2 Kings 6:8-23

February 11, 2025

Any preacher today could be tempted to regard his main obstacle as a modern one, namely the incredulity and cynicism of a secularist world. Be there is an ancient one as well—the recurring doubts of God’s people in the supernatural world. Preachers have long served as God’s agents to help those who struggle to walk by faith and not by sight, and continue to look to the things that are unseen, which are eternal. 2 Kings 6:8-23 reveals an example of God’s prophet being used to open the eyes of others in order to see what is truly real.

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Resurrection and Faithfulness (Colossians 1:24-31)

December 5, 2024

President’s Chapel Fall 2024

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God Reveals the Faults of the Afflicted but Saves Them (Psalm 91)

December 3, 2024

This Psalm teaches us about life’s travails, and that Israel fails, but that Christ prevails.

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Dependence on Christ: Mark 9:14-29

November 26, 2024

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Your Ways; God’s Ways Mark (5:21-43)

November 21, 2024

In Jesus’ encounter with two people in great need we are reminded that God’s ways are not our ways; and that God’s ways are always better.

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Romans 12:1-2

November 19, 2024

Change is unavoidable but how we change should follow God’s design for change.

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Double Trouble, Double Cure (Psalm 51)

November 14, 2024

David has two problems. There is David’s sin and there is David’s self. He faces his guilt as well as his guilty feelings. His repentance finds its voice, as does his faith, in the hope that God’s grace is sufficient for both his problems.

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A Blessing for the Saints (Ephesians 1:1-2)

November 12, 2024

What it means to be a saint, in Christ Jesus, and the joy, freedom, and security that comes with knowing God as our Father and Christ as our Lord.

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Psalm 44

November 7, 2024

Many Psalms of Lament conclude with confidence in God despite suffering.  However, Psalm 44 begins with confidence, followed by a complaint, concluding with a call for God to act.

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A Prayer for the Suffering and Forsaken Ones (Lamentations 5)

November 5, 2024

Lamentations articulates some of the worst human suffering. In response, a prayer for the Lord’s restoration is made.

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The Purified Words of the Lord (Psalm 12)

October 31, 2024

When language devolves into lies and power-relations to drown out trustworthiness, we find divine rescue in the sevenfold pure words of the Lord.

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The Wisdom of the Generations (Proverbs 4:1-9)

October 29, 2024

We will see how wisdom holds the secret to being truly alive in every generation.

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