Daily Devotion: Christ our Propitiation by Wil Pounds

Bible Reading: 1 John 2:1-8 KJV

Key Verse:  "And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world."
- 1 John 2:2 KJV

Please don’t let that title scare you off. That is a beautiful and profound word. Christ’s death turns away the wrath of God. The apostle Paul said Christ is our propitiation. He is a propitiatory sacrifice. It refers to what Christ did on our behalf before God.

Daily Devotion: God Expects Us To Be Diligent And Not Lazy by J.E. Smith

Bible Reading: Ecclesiastes 9:9-16 KJV 

Key Verse:  "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; "
- Ecclesiastes 9:10a KJV

As believers, we are called to live a life of diligence and productivity, honoring God with our time, talents, and resources. However, the enemy of laziness often tempts us to shirk our responsibilities and indulge in idleness. In this devotional, we will explore the consequences of laziness and the biblical expectations for a life of purpose and fruitfulness.

Daily Devotion: He Was Delivered For Our Offences by Octavius Winslow

Bible Reading: Romans 4:18-25 KJV

Key Verse:  "Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification."
- Romans 4:25 KJV

Obeying, suffering, and rising as the Representative, the Surety, the Head of His Church, may we not say, that what He did was not so much His own act, as that of the Church in Him? He obeyed not for Himself, nor for Himself did He die and rise again, but for His "body, the Church." His resurrection, therefore, was as much His Church's entire release, discharge, and justification, as it was His own. Then was the glorious sentence of acquittal passed, then transpired the great act of justification. 

Daily Devotion: We Have Obtained An Inheritance by Charles Spurgeon

Bible Reading: Ephesians 1:10-17 KJV

Key Verse:  "In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:"
- Ephesians 1:11 KJV

When Jesus gave Himself for us—He gave us all the rights and privileges which went with Himself. As eternal God, He has essential rights to which no creature may venture to pretend—yet as Jesus, the Mediator, the federal Head of the covenant of grace—He has no inheritance apart from us. All the glorious consequences of His obedience unto death—are the joint riches of all who are in Him, and on whose behalf He accomplished the divine will.

Daily Devotion: He Is The Head Over All Things by J.C. Philpot

Bible Reading: Ephesians 1:16-23 KJV

Key Verse:  "And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,"
- Ephesians 1:22 KJV

How vast, how numerous, how complicated are the various events and circumstances which attend the Church of God here below, as she travels onward to her heavenly home! But if all things as well as all persons are put under Jesus' feet, there cannot be a single circumstance over which he has not supreme control. Everything in providence and everything in grace are alike subject to his disposal. There is not a trial or temptation, an affliction of body or soul, a loss, a cross, a painful bereavement, a vexation, grief or disappointment, a case, state or condition, which is not put under Jesus' feet.

Daily Devotion: Christ Defends His Disciples by Favell Lee Mortimer1

Bible Reading: Matthew 12:1-8 KJV 

Key Verse:  "But when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto him, Behold, thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath day."
- Matthew 12:2 KJV

The Pharisees were so much inflamed against Christ, that now that he was in Jerusalem they sought eagerly to find some accusation against him, or his disciples. They particularly watched them on the Sabbath day; and now they thought they had caught them in a fault, because they observed them plucking ears of corn, and rubbing them in their hands, (as Luke informs us,) and eating, as they passed through some fields on their way to the synagogue.

Daily Devotion: Are You Ashamed To Be a Christian by J. R. Miller

Bible Reading: Acts 24:10-17 KJV

Key Verse:  "But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets:"
- Acts 24:14 KJV

It is easy enough when we are in meetings of Christians—to be known as one of them. But Christ wants us to confess him just as distinctly when we are among his enemies. If anyone sneers at us as Christians, we should not blush and hang our head, and stammer out an apology, or, far worse, a denial. We should be ready, without bravado, modestly and humbly—yet boldly, to admit that we are Christians, and to do it in such a way as to show that we rejoice in our relation to Christ, and in confessing it.