As human beings, we often complicate things and make them much harder to understand. In Mark’s Gospel, he begins with the start of Jesus’ earthly…
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Devotions
Simple Obedience
Throughout the Christmas narrative, we see a series of simple instructions being given to Joseph and Mary. For their part, they just needed to…
Keep It Simple
What a contrast we see in this chapter. First, we see the birth of Christ as an unwanted disruption to King Herod’s political agenda and to what…
Our Focus This Advent Season
This advent season we will encourage the church to reclaim the true meaning of Christmas by shifting our focus to worship fully the Christ who…
Unity Through Transparency
In this passage, James is instructing the church to get right with God before Christ’s return. Obviously, there was grumbling and judgment go…
Fix Your Eyes on Christ
Today, we will look at a practical example of a divided church. The church at Corinth was known for its infighting and divisions. If you were…
United Under Christ’s Authority
As we saw on Monday, Jesus prayed that we might be one. The Spirit of Christ has baptized us into one body. Now we are to keep the unity that…
The Key to Biblical Unity
We are called to be one body, despite our differences (i.e. politics, social issues, sports, etc.). Disunity was just as much an issue in the…
Unity in the Church
In John chapter seventeen, we find Jesus in the upper room the night before His crucifixion. John records a long prayer that Jesus prayed that…
The Problem With Pride
This whole week we have looked at what it means to reflect Christ’s humility in our lives. Jesus described Himself as “gentle and humble in heart…
Obedience Demonstrates Love
Yesterday, we saw the importance of thinking like Jesus. We saw that in order to reflect Christ’s humility, we had to surrender our minds to…