3 Nails + 1 Cross = Salvation 4 All

Synopsis: Why did Jesus have to die on the cross?
Keywords: cross, Easter, Good Friday, crucifixion

A Great Light

Synopsis: Take a moment away from all the hurry associated with Christmas and relight your candle by going to the Source!
Keywords: Christmas, Light, darkness

A Happy Heart

Synopsis: Laughter is good for the soul
Keywords: laughter, humor, humour, jokes, joy, happiness

A Parent's Prayer

Synopsis: A suggested prayer for parents...
Keywords: parents, prayer

A Question Answered

Synopsis: Keep on asking questions of God but don't forget to listen to God's words directed toward you.
Keywords: Christmas Devotion, Incarnation, God with Us

A Quiet Place

Synopsis: A quiet place to prepare for the day.
Keywords: Prayer, Quiet Time, Devotional

A Successful Life

Synopsis: Whenever God wants to give us a gift, he wraps it in struggles and difficulties.
Keywords: Trial, struggles, difficulties, trust, purity, forgiveness, character

Appearances

Synopsis: Outward appearance doesn't reflect what people are really like or their true worth.
Keywords: outward appearances, heart, inner self, worth

Are you a vessel?

Synopsis: God has created different vessels for different purposes, but all are meant to hold the message of salvation.
Keywords: vessels, evangelism, witnessing, sharing the gospel

At The Start Of All Things

Synopsis: “Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of His grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God’s grace. Every day should be a day of...
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Autumn Season of Life

Synopsis: God will finish the work he has begun.
Keywords: Growth, Change, Life.

Best Christmas Pageant Ever

Synopsis: The Herdmans understand what the Christmas story is all about.
Keywords: Christmas, Giving, Worship, Change

Century of Experience

Synopsis: Are you looking for a spiritual experience or experiencing God daily?
Keywords: growth, stagnant, complacency, Christianity, tree

Chicken Eggs

Synopsis: Growing up, we lived in the country and my family had quite a collection of animals. We had turkeys, geese, ducks, chickens, and rabbits. I was given the daily responsibility of feeding them and collecting the eggs which the birds...
Keywords: Used by God, members, eggs, gifts, talents, Easter egg ideas

Chili Crab

Synopsis: Has your spiritual growth become stagnant. Learn from the crab. Maybe there is a shell in your life that you need to shed!
Keywords: crab, change, growth, spiritually stagnant

Christ's Banquet Table

Synopsis: How much have you eaten off of Christ's banquet table?
Keywords: Thanksgiving, Feast, Abundance, Blessings

Christ, Born in Me

Synopsis: What difference does it make that Christ was born so long ago in Bethlehem, if he be not born in me?
Keywords: Christmas, obedience, God’s purpose, yielding to God

Christmas - An Earthly Stepfather for God

Synopsis: God needed a godly man to take the responsibility to raise Jesus in the right way.
Keywords: Christmas, stepfather, father, parenting

Christmas - What gift would I give Him?

Synopsis: You are the greatest of all gifts given to this world, your family, and your community.
Keywords: Christmas gifts, giving

Christmas All Year

Synopsis: The everlasting Lord Jesus Christ died that we would know Christmas All Year.
Keywords: Christmas, pressure, stress

Christmas Memories

Synopsis: The meaning of Christmas is found in the relationship.
Keywords: Christmas, relationship, fellowship

Christmas Peace

Synopsis: We must expose others to the glory of God so that they may find peace in Him.
Keywords: peace, glory, Christmas, Angels, Shepherds

Christmas: a Demonstration of God's Power and Grace

Synopsis: The coming of the Messiah is the ultimate demonstration of the grace and power of God.
Keywords: God's power, God's Grace, Christmas

Christmas: A Question Answered

Synopsis: This Christmas, are you willing and ready like Mary to say: "May it be to me as you have said."
Keywords: advent, Christmas, Mary, Gabriel, birth of Christ

Christmas: A Quiet Voice

Synopsis: find the time this Christmas season to be still and listen for your quiet voice.
Keywords: busyness, Christmas hustle

Christmas: A Savior is Born

Synopsis: All men, no matter how powerful and righteous, need a Savior
Keywords: Christmas, Savior is born

Christmas: Everlasting

Synopsis: At Christmas we describe Christ as the Savior, but Isaiah also referred to Christ as the Everlasting Father
Keywords: Christmas, everlasting father

Christmas: Everlasting Father

Synopsis: Everlasting Father was one of the titles the prophet Isaiah ascribed to the Savior that would come to rule the world.
Keywords: Everlasting Father, Christ, titles Christmas

Christmas: Everyday Praises?

Synopsis: Remember that our God is a Mighty God, a Wonderful Counselor, Prince of Peace and the Everlasting Father all year long and not just at Christmas!
Keywords: Christmas, busyness, frustrations, praise

Christmas: God Gifts us with his presence

Synopsis: From first breath to last, Jesus is there and you are His. This is God's gift to you: Christmas.
Keywords: God's presence, Christmas

Christmas: God Speaking through us

Synopsis: Let our prayer this Christmas season be that the Holy Spirit will be able to speak and work through us to proclaim Christ to the World.
Keywords: Christmas, angel, proclamation, Holy Spirit

Christmas: God With Us

Synopsis: O daughter of Zion; for lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith the Lord
Keywords: Christmas, God with us, Emmanuel

Christmas: God becoming one of us

Synopsis: Christmas - The event when God became one of us so He could do the 1 thing we could not do for ourselves - eradicate sin
Keywords: Christmas, incarnation, redemption plan

Christmas: God's Larger Vision

Synopsis: Are you preparing yourself today so that God can use you tomorrow, next week, or a year from now?
Keywords: christmas. God's Plan, vision

Christmas: Great Things come in small packages

Synopsis: Next time you think you are too small or insignificant for God to use you, remember Bethlehem.
Keywords: Bethlehem, Christmas, significance

Christmas: Mary's Song

Synopsis: A. W. Tozer warned, "Scientists have lost God amid the wonders of his world; Christians are in danger of losing God amid the wonders of His Word."
Keywords: Christmas, Bible, God;s Word, Mary's Song

Christmas: Wonderful Counselor

Synopsis: We have a Savior who understands us perfectly, who knows how we feel, a Wonderful Counselor!
Keywords: Christmas, counselor, feelings

Cleaning Your Room

Synopsis: Our lives, like our bedrooms as teens, reflect on us. What passions and aspects of your personality does your life now reflect?
Keywords: devotion, clutter, discipline, cleaning, spiritual habits

Coming Home

Synopsis: God is always waiting for us to come home!
Keywords: Grace, mercy, God's love, forgiveness, patience

Consecration

Synopsis: What is consecration and how do we benefit from living the consecrated life?
Keywords: consecration, obedience, surrender

Crabgrass

Synopsis: Have you tried to remove habitual sin in your life?
Keywords: Attitude

Cracked Pots

Synopsis: If we will allow it, the Lord will use our flaws.
Keywords: flaws, faults, weaknesses, service, Used by God

Early One Morning

Synopsis: Early one morning I rushed straight into the day, too much to do, no time to pray. Problems overcame me, heavier each task, "Why doesn't God help me?" He answered, "You didn't ask." I wanted great joy, but the day...
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Easter: God doing the Impossible

Synopsis: Easter reminds us that God makes a habit of doing the impossible!
Keywords: easter, resurrection, empty tomb, new beginning, impossible situations, hope, despair, doubts

Emmanuel - God with Us

Synopsis: Reflect today on how God is with YOU, and as a family share what GOD WITH US means to you.
Keywords: Emmanuel, God with us, God's presence

False Predictions

Synopsis: As you start the New Year, listen to God. Don't listen to the voices of discouragement, but to the great encourager, the one who knew you before you were even born. The key to realizing God's plan for you, of release from whatever captivity you may be in, of restoration to God and his place for you is to seek Him with all your heart. When you do, you not only find him, you also find yourself!
Keywords: New Year, plans, prosperity, goals, dreams, hope, future, forgiveness, restoration, new beginnings, new starts

Fearing Failure

Synopsis: Failure is in fact a great teacher if we know how to learn and apply its lessons.
Keywords: failure, restoration

Feeling alone?

Synopsis: God can handle your feelings. He understands. He cares. Be honest with him.
Keywords: cross, Good Friday, Easter, feelings, isolation, emotions, hurt, pain

Firsts & Lasts, What Happened to the In Betweens?

Synopsis: Our Journey and the Development of Character
Keywords: Character, Growth, Journey, Choices, Decision Making

Forgiveness at the Cross

Synopsis: Christ's first words on the cross were of unconditional forgiveness.
Keywords: Easter, Crucifixion, Cross, forgiveness, grace, good Friday

Gather or Scatter

Synopsis: Is your lifestyle gathering or scattering for the Kingdom of God?
Keywords: Lifestyle evangelism, witness, living testimony

God is Good, All the Time

Synopsis: So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life -your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life - and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God wants you to do it...
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Growing Older?

Synopsis: How do you know if you are maturing spiritually?
Keywords: maturity, Bible study, application fo scripture, applying the Bible to life

Heroes?

Synopsis: Like the TV series "Heroes", God calls each of us to a journey of discovery to use the special abilities he has given us to save the world!
Keywords: TV, television, heroes, extraordinary, abilities, skills, gifts, talents, journey, save the world, evangelism

High Flying Acrobats

Synopsis: Transitions in life are opportunities for growth.
Keywords: transitions, growth, change, opportunities, development

Higher Up!

Synopsis: Are you building higher up?
Keywords: pain, suffering, trials, tribulations, circumstances, adversity, struggles, overcoming, hurt, affliction, testing, security, trust

His Love Endures Forever

Synopsis: The gift of the Christ is probably one of the hardest gifts for the people of the world to take because really we don't deserve it and yet God sent him anyways.
Keywords: gifts

Hot things Hot

Synopsis: Spiritually lukewarm?
Keywords: thermos, lukewarm, hot, cold

How To Pray For Your Children

Synopsis: We need to pray for our children just as Jesus intercedes for us!
Keywords: prayer, children, Mother's Day, mother

Impossible?

Synopsis: God wants to do the impossible in your life and the first step toward that is for you to believe it can be done.
Keywords: impossible, belief, doubts, breakthroughs, mindset

In God's Hands

Synopsis: We must the same journey from isolation and despair with God's seeming lack of help - "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" to commitment to allow God to finish his will in us - "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit".
Keywords: Easter, Good Friday, cross, crucifixion, commitment, trust

In Your eyes

Synopsis: What do people see when they look into your eyes?
Keywords: Compassion, witness, lifestyle evangelism, love, giving, christlike

It is Finished?

Synopsis: Jesus finished the work of perfect redemption for men. He completed what we could not even begin.
Keywords: cross, Easter, Good Friday, redemption, purpose, God's will, atonement, cross, crucifixion

January

Synopsis: New Year is a time to loko back and a time to look forward!
Keywords: January, New Year, Looking Back, Looking forward!

King and Father

Synopsis: God cares for his people constantly.
Keywords: Christmas, Devotion, Father

Lessons from an Ant

Synopsis: We can learn much from even the smallest creatures in God's creation.
Keywords: Planning, Troubles, Burdens, Difficulties, Worries

Light

Synopsis: Lights are meant to be placed in dark places.
Keywords: Light, evangelism, Lifestyle Evangelism, Sharing Christ,Great Commission

Limitations

Synopsis: Are you caught up in your limitations?
Keywords: Limitations, God's Call

Little Town of Bethlehem

Synopsis: In the city of David there has been born for you a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.
Keywords: Bethlehem, Christmas, Christmas Star

Little Tree

Synopsis: God knows our needs best
Keywords: Prayer, Growth, Needs, God's Care

Magician and the Parrot

Synopsis: Difficultues are an opportunity for us to rest on God's shoulder.
Keywords: Trials, Tribulations, Struggles, Tragedies

Make Room For Jesus

Synopsis: Will you make room for Jesus this Christmas by making room for others?
Keywords: Christmas Story

Mary's Song

Synopsis: Mary glorified the Lord, and rejoiced in God her Savior. So should we.
Keywords: Mary, Christmas, God's Word, Scripture, Bible

Mighty God

Synopsis: All men, no matter how powerful and righteous, need a Savior.
Keywords: Christmas Devotion, Savior, Mighty God

New Car Christianity?

Synopsis: Who's driving who?
Keywords: surrender, obedience, commitment

New Shoes

Synopsis: This devotional on New shoes and Change could be easily adapted as an object lesson or children's sermon.
Keywords: object lesson, children's sermon, change, transitions, moving forward, life's journey

Ordinary

Synopsis: Christmas reminds us that Christ has always brought joy to the ordinary, peace to the weary, and hope to the lowly.
Keywords: Christmas, Ordinary

Paradise

Synopsis: Today you will be with me in paradise." (Luke 23:43) "Today" Jesus makes a huge promise to the sinner next to him on the cross. Today you will be with me in paradise. Immediately. Instantly. Now. Not tomorrow. Not in...
Keywords: cross, crucifixion, Easter, paradise, heaven, presence of God, good Friday

Pearls

Synopsis: A pearl is a victory over a problem.
Keywords: Difficulties, trials, struggles, test, victory

Placing Lights

Synopsis: Are you a light for Christ?
Keywords: light, evangelism, witnessing, sharing the gospel

Planning for Prosperity

Synopsis: In the Bible, Peter also spoke of things that will insure a Christian will be spiritually prosperous. Like the Chinese New Year, a little house cleaning and what we nourish ourselves with become important.
Keywords: Chinese New Year, Luck, prosperity, growth, nourishment, holiness, cleaning house

Remembering Well

Synopsis: Thoughts on Thanksgiving from Charissa Ee
Keywords: Thanksgiving

Responding to Christmas

Synopsis: God wants to include each of us in His plan for the world. But how will we respond? When we look at the events of the Christmas story we can see a few possible responses. DOUBT - Zechariah (Luke 1:5-22)...
Keywords: Christmas story, Mary, Joseph, Elizabeth, Zachariah, John, Baby Jesus, Shepherds, Herod, Wise men, Magi, Gabriel, angels, responding to God, dreams, worship, obedience, submission

Ruled by Fear

Synopsis: What are you afraid of? How do you respond when afraid?
Keywords: Fear, courage, boldness, timidity

Scars

Synopsis: Are your scars excuses that hold you back from what life has to offer?
Keywords: scars, cross, Christ, Easter

Seasoned with Salt

Synopsis: Are you salt to those around you?
Keywords: Salt, preserve, seasoning, taste, evangelism, witnessing, sharing the gospel

Slow Leaks

Synopsis: There was a time when we all had a spring in our step and bounced into action when a spiritual goal was placed before us. But something has changed.
Keywords: Spiritual Revival, Recommitment, Spiritual Zeal

Spectator Sport?

Synopsis: Are you playing the position the Coach (God) has put you in?
Keywords: Superbowl, American Football

Spiritual Gardening

Synopsis: The Bible is filled with references to gardens and gardening or farming.
Keywords: spiritual fruit, fruit of the Spirit, spiritual gardening, lessons from gardening

Tank Test

Synopsis: Is your life in balance?
Keywords: Fish, Aquarium, Balance

Tested by Fire

Synopsis: Shadrach Meshack and Abed-nego were test and God was Glorified as a result!
Keywords: Tests, Trials, Tribulations,

Thanks, Forgiving Day

Synopsis: Thanks, forgiving!
Keywords: Thanksgiving, forgiveness, gratitude

The Gift of the Wisemen

Synopsis: The wisemen gave Christ the greatest gift
Keywords: Christmas, gifts, giving, worship

The Incredibles

Synopsis: Sometimes we spend so much time identifying our spiritual gifts we end up not doing anything with them.
Keywords: Spiritual Gifts, Talents, Service, Serving God

The Musician

Synopsis: For half a lifetime he wandered the empty night, alone and hopeless, until a simple melody pierced the darkness and caught his attention. Making the melody was a young man, a musician, with a sensitive ear, and an even more...
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The Smell of Durian

Synopsis: Is your life a fragrance of Christ?
Keywords: fragrance, smell, evangelism, witnessing, sharing the gospel

They Followed the Star

Synopsis: The star was something new. It was something unusual. It was something surprising.
Keywords: Christmas, obedience, following God’s guidance, the journey

Thinking about others in time of great pain

Synopsis: Christ's focus on the cross was not his own pain, but the pain of others.
Keywords: cross, crucifixion, pain, comfort, family, relationships, Easter, Good Friday

Thirst?

Synopsis: God hears your cries. He knows your thirst. And he offered himself as living water that you might never thirst again.
Keywords: Easter, thirst, humanity, divinity, Good Friday, crucifixion, cross

To Infinity & Beyond

Synopsis: Impossibility and possibility is relative to how we see ourselves.
Keywords: Faith, Limitations, Encouragement

Training for the Race

Synopsis: Keep going, even when you can't see the goal!
Keywords: Michael Phelps devotional, swimming, race, spiritual disciplines, spiritual training in righteousness, devotional

Two Talents

Synopsis: Are you average in your talents and gifts?
Keywords: talents, gifts, application of knowledge, average

Underdogs

Synopsis: Are the giants too big or is your God too small?
Keywords: giants, David, Goliath, spiritual battle

Uneasy

Synopsis: Do you feel uneasy when it comes to religion and spirituality?
Keywords: Easter, response, uneasiness

Walking Like a Pigeon

Synopsis: Discovering our focus in our relationship to the world and the will of God
Keywords: focus, pigeon, sight, walk

Well Established

Synopsis: Are you making progress in your Christian Life?
Keywords: growth, judgement, journey, farmer, wagon, testimony, complacency, grave

Who's your Ninevah?

Synopsis: The life of Jonah is full of lessons for all of us. To explore these lessons yourself, or with the youth you work with, check out "A Whale of a Tale", my Bible Study curriculum based on the life of Jonah.
Keywords: Jonah, Evangelism, Youth Camp materials, Bible study, Great Commission, God's call, witnessing

Wile E Coyote

Synopsis: Like Wile E Coyote in the Roadrunner cartoons, are there things in life that you fanatically pursue with the reckless abandon of a half-crazed coyote?
Keywords: pursuits, goals, hungers, lusts, taking hold of Christ, seeking God first

Would You Like to Hold Him?

Synopsis: Gather around the manger. Smell the hay. Don't worry about getting cleaned up. That's why Jesus came.
Keywords: Christmas, Shepherds, Salvation

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