Love God and Love Your Neighbor
He is asked for one commandment and answers with two, refusing to separate them.
Devotionals
Devotionals
What It Means to Deny Yourself
This is not an instruction to think badly of yourself, and reading it that way does damage.
Seek First the Kingdom
The word first is a ranking, not an instruction about what time you get up.
Not by Might Nor by Power
This was said to a man rebuilding something far smaller than what stood there before.
Rejoicing When the Harvest Fails
Habakkuk writes this with nothing in hand, which is the only reason it is worth anything.
A New Heart, Not a Repaired One
Every verb in the promise belongs to God, which is the part we keep trying to take over.
Blessed Is the Man Who Trusts
The drought is not cancelled in this picture, which is exactly why it is worth reading.
His Thoughts Are Not Your Thoughts
This gets offered as a shrug when it was written as an invitation.
Kept in Perfect Peace
Peace is described as something done to you rather than something you manage to produce.
Living in the Shelter of the Most High
Shelter is described as an address, not as somewhere you run when the weather turns.