Category: Daily Devotion
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What God Requires: We cannot walk with the Lord absent the Gospel.
It should be obvious to us by this point, but we cannot walk with God except by means of the Gospel. “Our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ,” says the apostle John (1 John 1:3, emphasis added). Or as Jesus Himself put it, “No one comes to the Father except through me”…
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What God Requires: We cannot love kindness apart from the Gospel.
Often, the message of Micah 6:8 sometimes replaces the Gospel. Instead of heralding “Christ and him crucified” (1 Cor. 2:2), we sound a message of generic love and goodwill. Now, again, we should take no issue with people—believers and unbelievers alike—loving one another insofar as they are able. But the Scriptures call us to more…
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What God Requires: Helpless Without the Gospel
He has told you, O man, what is good; And what does the LORD require of you But to do justice, to love kindness, And to walk humbly with your God? (Micah 6:8) By the time we arrive at what God requires in [Micah] verse 8, it’s all too easy for us to neglect the…
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Sunday Morning Hymn: Sweet Hour of Prayer
Sweet hour of prayer! sweet hour of prayer!That calls me from a world of care,And bids me at my Father’s throneMake all my wants and wishes known.In seasons of distress and grief,My soul has often found relief,And oft escaped the tempter’s snare,By thy return, sweet hour of prayer! Sweet hour of prayer! sweet hour of…