Today's Devotions

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Showcase: Assorted Treats

  • Hope for Haiti +

    In Christ we who are many form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. Romans 12:5 Read More
  • Give My Soul Rest: the movie Avatar +

    Avatar, the 2009 movie by James Cameron, raised as much discussion and controversy through its piecemeal use of Native American, Read More
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What the Bible says...
  • {highslide type="img" url="thumbnails/close_500.jpg" captionText="I am a child of God: But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name. John 1:12" display=none } I am a child of God. {/highslide}
  • {highslide type="img" url="thumbnails/close_500.jpg" captionText="God loves me and has chosen me: Knowing, brethren beloved by God, His choice of you. 1 Thessalonians 1:4" display=none } God loves me and has chosen me. {/highslide}
  • {highslide type="img" url="thumbnails/close_500.jpg" captionText="I am a friend of Jesus: No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you. John 15:15" display=none } I am a friend of Jesus. {/highslide}
  • {highslide type="img" url="thumbnails/close_500.jpg" captionText="I am a member of Christ\'s body and a partaker of his promise: The Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel. Ephesians 3:6 5:30" display=none } I am a member of Christ's body and a partaker of his promise.{/highslide}
  • {highslide type="img" url="thumbnails/close_500.jpg" captionText="I have boldness and confident access to God through faith in Christ: In whom we have boldness and confident access through faith in Him. Ephesians 3:12" display=none } I have boldness and confident access to God through faith in Christ.{/highslide}
  • {highslide type="img" url="thumbnails/close_500.jpg" captionText="My new self is righteous and holy: Put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth. Ephesians 4:24" display=none } My new self is righteous and holy{/highslide}
  • {highslide type="img" url="thumbnails/close_500.jpg" captionText="I was formerly darkness, but now I am light in the Lord: You were formerly darkness, but now you are Light in the Lord; walk as children of Light. Ephesians 5:8" display=none } I was formerly darkness, but now I am light in the Lord. {/highslide}
  • {highslide type="img" url="thumbnails/close_500.jpg" captionText="I am a citizen of heaven: For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. Philippians 3:20" display=none } I am a citizen of heaven. {/highslide}
  • {highslide type="img" url="thumbnails/close_500.jpg" captionText="The peace of God guards my heart and mind: And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:7" display=none } The peace of God guards my heart and mind. {/highslide}
  • {highslide type="img" url="thumbnails/close_500.jpg" captionText="God supplies all my needs: And my God will supply all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:19" display=none } God supplies all my needs. {/highslide}
  • {highslide type="img" url="thumbnails/close_500.jpg" captionText="I have been made complete in Christ: In Him you have been made complete, and He is the head over all rule and authority. Colossians 2:10" display=none } I have been made complete in Christ. {/highslide}
  • {highslide type="img" url="thumbnails/close_500.jpg" captionText="I have been raised up with Christ: Therefore if you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Colossians 3:1" display=none } I have been raised up with Christ. {/highslide}
  • {highslide type="img" url="thumbnails/close_500.jpg" captionText="I am chosen, holy, and blameless before God: Just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before Him. Ephesians 1:4" display=none } I am chosen, holy, and blameless before God. {/highslide}
  • {highslide type="img" url="thumbnails/close_500.jpg" captionText="I am redeemed and forgiven by the grace of Christ: In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace. Ephesians 1:7" display=none } I am redeemed and forgiven by the grace of Christ. {/highslide}
  • {highslide type="img" url="thumbnails/close_500.jpg" captionText="I have been predestined by God to obtain an inheritance: In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to His purpose who works all things after the counsel of His will. Ephesians 1:10-11" display=none } I have been predestined by God to obtain an inheritance. {/highslide}
  • {highslide type="img" url="thumbnails/close_500.jpg" captionText="I have been sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise: In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation-having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise. Ephesians 1:13" display=none } I have been sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise. {/highslide}
  • {highslide type="img" url="thumbnails/close_500.jpg" captionText="Because of God\'s mercy and love, I have been made alive with Christ: But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved). Ephesians 2:4-5" display=none } Because of God's mercy and love, I have been made alive with Christ. {/highslide}
  • {highslide type="img" url="thumbnails/close_500.jpg" captionText="I am seated in the heavenly places with Christ: And raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus. Ephesians 2:6" display=none } I am seated in the heavenly places with Christ. {/highslide}
  • {highslide type="img" url="thumbnails/close_500.jpg" captionText="I am God\'s workmanship created to produce good works: For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them. Ephesians 2:10" display=none } I am God's workmanship created to produce good works. {/highslide}
  • {highslide type="img" url="thumbnails/close_500.jpg" captionText="I have been brought near to God by the blood of Christ: But now in Christ Jesus you who formerly were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. Ephesians 2:13" display=none } I have been brought near to God by the blood of Christ.{/highslide}
  • {highslide type="img" url="thumbnails/close_500.jpg" captionText="I am joined to the Lord and am one spirit with him: But the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit with Him. 1 Corinthians 6:17" display=none } I am joined to the Lord and am one spirit with him. {/highslide}
  • {highslide type="img" url="thumbnails/close_500.jpg" captionText="God leads me in the triumph and knowledge of Christ: But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and manifests through us the sweet aroma of the knowledge of Him in every place. 2 Corinthians 2:14" display=none } God leads me in the triumph and knowledge of Christ. {/highslide}
  • {highslide type="img" url="thumbnails/close_500.jpg" captionText="The hardening of my mind has been removed in Christ: But their minds were hardened; for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains unlifted, because it is removed in Christ. 2 Corinthians 3:14" display=none } The hardening of my mind has been removed in Christ. {/highslide}
  • {highslide type="img" url="thumbnails/close_500.jpg" captionText="I am a new creature in Christ: Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come. 2 Corinthians 5:17" display=none } I am a new creature in Christ. {/highslide}
  • {highslide type="img" url="thumbnails/close_500.jpg" captionText="I have become the righteousness of God in Christ: He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. 2 Corinthians 5:21" display=none } I have become the righteousness of God in Christ. {/highslide}
  • {highslide type="img" url="thumbnails/close_500.jpg" captionText="I have been made one with all who are in Christ Jesus: There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. Galatians 3:28" display=none } I have been made one with all who are in Christ Jesus. {/highslide}
  • {highslide type="img" url="thumbnails/close_500.jpg" captionText="I am no longer a slave but a child and an heir: Therefore you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God. Galatians 4:7" display=none } I am no longer a slave but a child and an heir. {/highslide}
  • {highslide type="img" url="thumbnails/close_500.jpg" captionText="I have been set free in Christ: It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery. Galatians 5:1" display=none } I have been set free in Christ. {/highslide}
  • {highslide type="img" url="thumbnails/close_500.jpg" captionText="I have been blessed with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places: Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ. Ephesians 1:3" display=none } I have been blessed with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places. {/highslide}
  • {highslide type="img" url="thumbnails/close_500.jpg" captionText="I am a branch of the true vine, and a conduit of Christ\'s life: I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser.... I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing. John 15:1,5" display=none } I am a branch of the true vine, and a conduit of Christ's life. {/highslide}
  • {highslide type="img" url="thumbnails/close_500.jpg" captionText="I have been justified and redeemed: Being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus. Romans 3:24" display=none } I have been justified and redeemed. {/highslide}
  • {highslide type="img" url="thumbnails/close_500.jpg" captionText="My life is hidden with Christ in God: For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. Colossians 3:3" display=none } My life is hidden with Christ in God. {/highslide}
  • {highslide type="img" url="thumbnails/close_500.jpg" captionText="Christ is my life, and I will be revealed with him in glory: When Christ, who is our life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory. Colossians 3:4" display=none } Christ is my life, and I will be revealed with him in glory.{/highslide}
  • {highslide type="img" url="thumbnails/close_500.jpg" captionText="I have been chosen of God, and I am holy and beloved: So, as those who have been chosen of God, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Colossians 3:12" display=none } I have been chosen of God, and I am holy and beloved. {/highslide}
  • {highslide type="img" url="thumbnails/close_500.jpg" captionText="My old self was crucified with Christ, and I am no longer a slave to sin: Knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin. Romans 6:6" display=none } My old self was crucified with Christ, and I am no longer a slave to sin. {/highslide}
  • {highslide type="img" url="thumbnails/close_500.jpg" captionText="I will not be condemned by God: Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. Romans 8:1" display=none } I will not be condemned by God. {/highslide}
  • {highslide type="img" url="thumbnails/close_500.jpg" captionText="I have been set free from the law of sin and death: For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death. Romans 8:2" display=none } I have been set free from the law of sin and death. {/highslide}
  • {highslide type="img" url="thumbnails/close_500.jpg" captionText="As a child of God, I am a fellow heir with Christ: And if children, heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him. Romans 8:17" display=none } As a child of God, I am a fellow heir with Christ. {/highslide}
  • {highslide type="img" url="thumbnails/close_500.jpg" captionText="I have been accepted by Christ: Therefore, accept one another, just as Christ also accepted us to the glory of God. Romans 15:7" display=none } I have been accepted by Christ. {/highslide}
  • {highslide type="img" url="thumbnails/close_500.jpg" captionText="I have been called to be a saint: To the church of God which is at Corinth, to those who have been sanctified in Christ Jesus, saints by calling, with all who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours. 1 Corinthians 1:2; Ephesians 1:1; Philippians 1:1; Colossians 1:2" display=none } I have been called to be a saint. {/highslide}
  • {highslide type="img" url="thumbnails/close_500.jpg" captionText="I have wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption: But by His doing you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption. 1 Corinthians 1:30" display=none } I have wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption. {/highslide}
  • {highslide type="img" url="thumbnails/close_500.jpg" captionText="My body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who dwells in me: Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? 1 Corinthians 3:16 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? 1 Corinthians 6:19" display=none } My body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who dwells in me. {/highslide}

Reflections to Consider

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Publications

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Music

  • River of Love

    There's a river of love that runs through all timeBut there's a river of grief that floods through our livesIt Read More
  • I Am Nothing

    I stutter when I tryTo speak the language of lifeI want to shout out loudBut I just cry insideSometimes it Read More
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Audio & Video

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Favorites

  • Transforming this World: The Hope of Glory by NT Wright +

    Wright confronts the perspective that this world doesn’t matter, and that we live only to be in heaven. He shows Read More
  • What is Good in a World that Defies Hope: a talk by NT Wright +

    This is the second part of three talks by NT Wright at Harvard University in November, 2008 on the topic Read More
  • The Stream, the Lake and the River: NT Wright +

      Acts 2.1-21; John 7.37-39; a sermon at the Eucharist on the Feast of Pentecost, 11 May 2008, by the Read More
  • Jesus in the Perfect Storm by NT Wright +

    Zechariah 9.9-17; Luke 19.28-48; A sermon for Palm Sunday, April 17, 2011, In the University Chapel of St Salvator, St Read More
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Hidden Blessings

  • Christ is a Great Savior: a review of the movie Amazing Grace +

    Amazing Grace is a historical drama about William Wilberforce who was elected to British Parliament at the age of 21 Read More
  • Wilberforce, Hollywood's Amazing Grace, Charlotte Allen +

    William Wilberforce's relentless campaign eventually led the British Parliament to ban the slave trade, in 1807, and to pass a Read More
  • Making Beauty out of Ugly Things: Grace by U2 +

    Grace, she takes the blame She covers the shame Removes the stain It could be her name Grace, she carries Read More
  • The True Nature of Grace and Love: a movie review of the Soloist +

    The 2009 movie The Soloist is based on a book by the same name, written by Los Angeles Times columnist Read More
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