Click for a PDF version Monday James 3:1 It is not an exaggeration to say that a great teacher can change a student’s life. There is an endless number of great teacher stories that attest to the benefits of a strong relationship between an educator and pupil. Teaching is a great responsibility and paradoxically...
Click for a PDF version Monday James 2:14-17; Luke 10:25-37 This week we are going to be focusing around a passage in James about faith and obedience. To explain true faith, James uses the following four different illustrations: the ill-clad and hungry brother or sister; the believing demons; Abraham, the friend of God; and...
Click for a PDF version Monday James 2:1 Brothers and sisters in the church will show no partiality. When he was a student, the famous Indian leader, Mahatma Gandhi, considered becoming a Christian. He read the Gospels and was moved by them. It seemed to him that Christianity offered a solution to the caste...
Click for a PDF version Monday Genesis 4:5-7; Matthew 5:21-22 How can a person be anger free in an angry world? This week we’ll be seeking to answer this question and others. What are the causes and effects of anger? What is the cure and antidote to anger? What does anger have to do...
Monday James 1:9-11; Ecclesiastes 5:10-12; Matthew 6:19-21, 19:23-26 Is wealth itself sinful? The Bible does not teach this. One of its most misquoted verses actually states, “The love of money is a root of all kinds of evils” (1 Timothy 6:10). Money is neutral biblically, but the love of money—like any idol impairing right...
Click for a PDF version Monday James 1:1-8; John 7:1-5; Acts 1:12-14 Today’s devo kicks off Glenkirk’s teaching series in the book of James. This week’s theme: putting faith to work amidst suffering. Interestingly, though this son of Joseph and Mary of Nazareth eventually led Jerusalem’s fledgling Christian church, James was originally cynical regarding...
Click for a PDF version Monday John 1:1-7, 21-23; 4:34-38; 5:31-40 John the Baptist introduced the world to Jesus. “There was a man sent from God whose name was John. He came as a witness concerning [Jesus] that light, so that through [John] all might believe.” (John 1:6-7) John the Baptist was like a...
Click for a PDF version Monday John 18:37-38 What is truth? When Jesus stood before Pilate, as recorded for us in John 18, He claimed to have come into the world to “testify to the truth” (v. 37). Pilate responded to this by asking a question that has resonated throughout the world ever since:...
Click for a PDF verison Monday John 1:1-4 Physical Life John 14:6 must be one of the best-known verses in John’s Gospel, where Jesus declares Himself to be “the way and the truth and the life.” In our devotions this week, we want to have a look at the LIFE that Jesus promises to...
Click for a PDF version Monday Genesis 1:26-27; Romans 5:8; 1 John 2:2 This week’s theme is “loving those different from us.” We will survey this scripturally regarding various groups, considering God’s heart throughout. Start here: Every human was made in God’s image (Genesis 1:26-27). Everyone you have ever met—or will meet—carries the image...
