Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | Calvary Bible Church Read 1 Chronicles 29 and Micah 6. This devotional is about Micah 6. I was named (unjustly) in a lawsuit once in my life and the suit was withdrawn a few days later after the two main parties worked out a deal. Those few days when […]
Judges 2, Jeremiah 15
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | Calvary Bible Church Read Judges 2 and Jeremiah 15. This devotional is about Jeremiah 15. One of the themes that keeps recurring in Jeremiah is that God’s decree to punish Judah is set. As verse 1 says, “Even if Moses and Samuel were to stand before me, my heart would […]
Joshua 22, Jeremiah 11
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | Calvary Bible Church Read Joshua 22 and Jeremiah 11. This devotional is about Jeremiah 11. The first seventeen verses of this chapter continued Jeremiah’s prophecy against Judah but then verses 18-23 interrupted that prophecy abruptly. Some of God’s people were tired of hearing about his anger and coming wrath. Instead […]
Joshua 14-15, Jeremiah 7
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | Calvary Bible Church Read Joshua 14-15 and Jeremiah 7. This devotional is about Jeremiah 7:19b: “Are they not rather harming themselves, to their own shame?” The people of Judah had it made in the days of Jeremiah. They had divine protection from God because God’s dwelling place on earth, […]
Numbers 31, Isaiah 23, Psalm 136
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | Calvary Bible Church Read Numbers 31, Isaiah 23, and Psalm 136. This devotional is about Psalm 136. Maybe this isn’t an issue anymore, but people used to complain that contemporary worship songs are too repetitive. I actually agree for the most part with that complaint and we try in our […]
Numbers 22, Isaiah 11-12, Psalm 127
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | Calvary Bible Church Read Numbers 22, Isaiah 11-12, Psalm 127. This devotional is about Numbers 22. Israel was tantalizingly close to the Promised Land. The forty years of wandering was almost over and verse 1 says, “the Israelites… camped along the Jordan across from Jericho.” You know already that Jericho […]
Numbers 17-18, Isaiah 7, Psalm 123
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | Calvary Bible Church Read Numbers 17-18, Isaiah 7, Psalm 123. This devotional is about Psalm 123. The songwriter of this song felt belittled. Verses 3b-4 say, “…we have endured no end of contempt. We have endured no end of ridicule from the arrogant, of contempt from the proud.” The […]
Genesis 34, Job 1, Psalm 33
Read Genesis 34, Job 1, and Psalm 33. This devotional is about Genesis 34. Larry Nassar went to prison in 2017 for molesting over 150 girls and young women while he was supposed to be treating them in his role as a sports medicine doctor. He is just one of many men in the news who […]
Genesis 33, Esther 9-10, Psalm 32
Read Genesis 33, Esther 9-10, and Psalm 32. This devotional is about Esther 9-10. There are good, godly men who don’t believe that God cares about Israel as a nation any longer. They believe that God’s promises to Israel have been fulfilled in Christ and in the church. The Jews that exist today, then, are just […]
Genesis 32, Esther 8, Psalm 31
Read Genesis 32, Esther 8, Psalm 31. This devotional is about Psalm 31. During the Gulf War (the one in the early 1990s), U.S. Army General Norman Schwarzkopf held a famous press conference that made him into a celebrity. In that press conference, he showed a video of a car in Iraq crossing a bridge. […]