Jan 31, 2024 | Weekly Devotional
Did you ever fail to show the proper respect for your father when you were a child? Did your father ask, “Who do you think you’re talking to?” When we talk about prayer, it is appropriate to ask ourselves the same question: “Who do you think you’re talking to?” I once...
Jan 24, 2024 | Weekly Devotional
Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. John 3:6 I grew up in a pastor’s family. My dad was a wonderful godly man, zealous for serving the Lord. My parents made it very easy to believe that God is real. I grew up knowing that His word is...
Jan 17, 2024 | Weekly Devotional
Jesus says, “If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.” John 15:10, 11 Life in the kingdom of God is life...
Jan 10, 2024 | Weekly Devotional
… if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!– 2 Corinthians 5:17 Some people have a vivid memory of a turning point in life when they asked Jesus to save them. They can share a personal testimony divided sharply between before...
Jan 3, 2024 | Weekly Devotional
As we start the new year, Pastor Wood is with his son Paul who spent four days in ICU at Emory Hospital in Atlanta. Now that he is stable, he may not require surgery at this time. The Wood family has been greatly encouraged by the fact that thousands of brothers and...
Dec 27, 2023 | Weekly Devotional
“For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich.”2 Corinthians 8:9 The apostle Paul writes a lengthy portion of 2 Corinthians encouraging generosity on the...
Dec 13, 2023 | Weekly Devotional
In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) And everyone went to their own town to register. Luke 2:1-3 The census ordered by...
Dec 8, 2023 | Weekly Devotional
Satan is a Judo expert distinguishing good from evil WEEK 1 —INTRODUCTION FOCUS Though [Jesus] was God’s Son, He learned obedience through what He suffered. After He was perfected, He became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey Him, and He was declared by...
Dec 8, 2023 | Weekly Devotional
Satan is a Judo expert distinguishing between good and evil WEEK 2 — CONVICTION VS CONDEMNATION, Part 1 FOCUS: Therefore, no condemnation now exists for those in Christ Jesus, because the Spirit’s law of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and...