October 17, 2024
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From deep waters we cry to an attentive Lord for deliverance and forgiveness. Our watchful hope looks to his word of promise and plentiful redemption.
October 10, 2024
In this wilderness journal King David records his experience of the steadfast love of the Lord in the face of deep suffering. His poetic witness points us to the love of Christ and the promised joy of abiding in the greater son of the great King David.
November 10, 2022
Saving faith is vindicated by Spirit-wrought good works.
November 8, 2022
Dr. Bitner reads through the letter of James in its entirety in this special morning devotion.
October 27, 2022
James compares two forms of God’s law, the royal law that condemns us for just one sin and the law of liberty by which God shows us mercy. We who are under the latter law must speak and act mercifully.
October 13, 2022
James teaches how hearing God’s word and responding to it ought never be separated and how seeing and remembering who we are as sinners and objects of God’s grace draws the two together.
September 22, 2022
September 15, 2022
The wisdom we need is the wisdom God gives.
September 8, 2022
August 30, 2021
For a church facing cultural and doctrinal pressure it is easy to be sharp in doctrine but dull in love for the lost. Eating of the tree that gives life is the promised solution held out by the risen Christ.
There is a temptation in the desperate moments of our lives to let fear give way to doubt. But Exodus 2:1-10 shows us that God can be trusted in the darkest of times. He is working powerfully on our behalf to bring a Savior, and deliver us from our slavery to sin.
We will consider the outcome of the meal the Lord prepares for us in the presence of our enemies.
Within the Tabernacle, the Lord set a regular table for his covenant people to enjoy peace and joy with God and to have a foretaste of better things to come.
At the close of his Gospel account, John describes the disciples having breakfast on the shore of the Sea of Galilee. After the tumultuous events of Calvary and the empty tomb, this may strike us an insignificant or anti-climatic event to record. Is it?
Because communing with God was the goal of our creation, the story of Scripture begins with instructions on what and what not to eat. Throughout the history of salvation, the Lord signified and sealed his salvation of his people with a meal. In John 6:53-56, however, our Lord made explicit the reality was heretofore covered in shadows: what must be eaten is neither fruit nor bread but Christ himself.