Category: MOMENT WITH GOD-A DEVOTIONAL ON EVERY BIBLICAL BOOK

  • WAITING FOR THE MOMENT

    Reflections on Revelation I cringed as I tightened the straps that would hold the brace securely around my body for the night. Several weeks earlier, a doctor had detected the curve in my spine that identified me as a teen with scoliosis. Every night for the next year, I would wear a special brace that…

  • FROM: Anonymous

    Reflections on Jude Jude exhorts believers in Jesus to have “more and more mercy, peace, and love” (Jude 2). He ends his letter with some practical advice on what this characterization should look like (Jude 20–22). But what else should we be doing? When I cradled my first paycheck at age 16, I recognized the…

  • HE HEARS

    Reflections on 3 John It felt like God wasn’t listening. Scripture is full of verses about God hearing and answering our prayers. “And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we…

  • LANGUAGE, LETTERS & LIES

    Reflections on 2 John What does God have in common with Romeo? When I first started dating my wife, I wanted to speak like Romeo, but without the tragedy part. What I didn’t realize is that the way we write and speak is already influenced by Shakespeare. Every language is a product of its great…

  • THE INTANGIBLE GOD

    Reflections on 1 John I lay on the table with wires attached to my arms and legs. Soon, the electrodes taped to my skin would have currents running through them. I was about to experience one of the many medical tests I’ve been subjected to over the past few years. The uncertain outcomes and pain…

  • PREPARED FOR ACTION

    Reflections on 2 Peter In his second letter, Peter acts as a personal trainer. He writes both his letters “as reminders to stimulate [believers] to wholesome thinking” (2 Pet 3:1 NIV). His wants his audience “to recall the words spoken in the past by the holy prophets and the command given by our Lord and…

  • WALKING WHILE WOUNDED ISN’T SUPPOSED TO BE EASY

    Reflections on 1 Peter It’s been nearly a year since my wife and I experienced the heartbreaking loss of an unborn child. I don’t pretend to know why it happened—only that it did. A person in pain will do nearly anything for relief. I thought my spiritual understanding and the educational pedigree I was working…

  • CHOOSING A PATH

    Reflections on James Studying the Bible as a new Christian is similar to the feeling you get at an all-you-can-eat buffet: It’s fun to pile food onto your plate, but when you sit down, you realize that you might not want to eat it all. Spiritual indigestion is a very real threat. For me, it…

  • DISCIPLINE

    Reflections on Hebrews I spent a significant portion of my teenage years looking after other people’s children. I quickly discovered that the easiest way to end bickering and prompt students to do their homework was to give the kids whatever they wanted. I turned in my discipline card after a vegetable showdown with a 7-year-old…

  • WHEN FRIENDS ARE NOT FRIENDS FOREVER

    Reflections on Philemon I grew up as a peace-loving middle child. Although raised in a relatively peaceful household, I still worked to resolve conflicts between siblings—and sometimes even parents. But when I found myself playing the role of “bridge” between two spatting friends, I was at a loss. I wasn’t their mother or their middle…