Archives: Devos

Be Strong

A question every generation of Christians has asked is: Are we living in the last days?The phrase “last days” is used five different times in the New Testament—once each in Acts, 2 Timothy, James, 2 Peter, and Hebrews. And the author of Hebrews wrote: “God…has in these last days spoken to us by His Son” […]

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Asking Amiss

One day, a father heard a ruckus in the backyard. His kids and their friends were playing, but they seemed angry, like they were in a fight. When he tried to intervene, his son said, “It’s okay, Dad. We’re just playing church.”In his epistle, James shared some hard-hitting words about conflict—specifically conflict among believers.”Where do […]

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God's Gentleman

When students in a class were asked to write an essay on the Quakers, one young girl wrote: “Quakers are very meek people who never fight and never answer back. My mother is a Quaker. But my father is not.”In the book of James, the apostle wrote, “Who is wise and understanding among you? Let […]

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Fake Faith

There’s an old kids’ song that goes, “If you’re saved and you know it, then your life will surely show it.” That’s just another way to say that faith and works go together.Some people claim to be Christians, but they don’t have Jesus imprinted on their lives. If someone’s life looks the same as it […]

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The Butterfly and the Bee

A man walking by a garden saw a butterfly flitting from one flower to another, and he noted that, while beautiful, it received absolutely no benefit from those flowers. Then he saw a bee that sank deep down into the flower to extract all the pollen it could carry, its legs saturated.As believers, it should […]

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