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Christian Devotional – May 24, 2026
Leading Through Challenging Circumstances, Day 2 God’s gift. Read Daniel 1:17-21. When you were a leader who is surrounded by other leaders that just don’t seem to get it or who are not good or Godly leaders, it can be tempting to become prideful and arrogant. We see others in leadership positions and we think that we could do the job so much better because we are so much smarter or have so much more ability. However, as we see here in Daniel, it’s important to remember that God is the one who gives us our wisdom and knowledge. We would not understand anything if it were not for God’s…
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Christian Devotional – May 23, 2026
Leading Through Challenging Circumstances, Day 1 The resolution. Read Daniel 1:1-16. Leading anyone or anything can be challenging all by itself. However, if you start adding on difficult circumstances and frustrating leadership, leading others can be truly daunting. We’re going to work our way through the book of Daniel and see a true leader. Daniel didn’t sign up for leadership and he wasn’t looking for it. He was taken captive and ended up in a position of leadership, and God used him in tremendous ways, even though the king he served wasn’t always following God. We can learn from him how to be a Godly leader, even when we are…
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Christian Devotional – May 21, 2026
My Testimony My Story. Read 1 Peter 3:15. As we have just finished the Roman Road, I decided it would only make sense to take a few moments and share the story of my journey of faith. You see, I look around the world these days and I see so many people searching for purpose and seeking validation from others. I know how strong this pull can be, yet I also know that I don’t have to give in to the temptation to chase that. When I look at why that is, it all goes back to when I was a kid. I grew up in a home that spoke…
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Christian Devotional – May 19, 2026
The Roman Road, Day 4 Step 4: Personal Decision. Read Romans 10:9. We all have to face that moment. We can watch and study and learn all we want, but no matter what we have spent our time and energy learning, there will always come a moment when we have to take the step and take action ourselves. On the Roman Road we’ve been studying, today is that day. We may have heard who God is. We may have understood that we were sinners. We may even know the story of God’s love for us, but each and every one of us must come to the place where we make…
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Christian Devotional – May 18, 2026
The Roman Road, Day 3 Step 3: God’s amazing love. We talk a lot about love in today’s culture. We encourage people to be loving toward others, and we want to see people act lovingly toward us. However, the truest demonstration of what love actually is came from God and it was demonstrated 2000 years ago by Jesus Christ. As we learned in the previous two days, we are not worthy of love. We are sinners. The only thing we have earned as a result of our sin is death. That is what we deserve, and that is all we have ever earned. However, God made the decision that he…
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Christian Devotional – May 17, 2026
The Roman Road, Day 2 Step 2: We have earned death. Read Romans 6:23. My daughter recently changed jobs, and while it wasn’t the entire reason, part of the reason why she changed is she moved to a job that pays her more money. Her wages have increased. The new job believes the value that she brings is higher, so they are paying her more. Often we like to think of things in terms of what we are owed. We feel that we are entitled or have earned certain things like a specific amount of salary or a certain amount of benefits. What we need to understand is that we…
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Christian Devotional – May 16, 2026
The Roman Road, Day 1 Step 1: we are all sinners. Read Romans 3:23. For the next 5 days, we’re gonna walk through a message that has been referred to as the Roman road. In praying about where we should study next, I was struck by the importance of the gospel message. We all need to have a strong understanding of exactly what is the gospel? Why did Jesus come, and why does it matter? While many different evangelism tools have been created through the years, one of the first methods that I learned in order to share my faith was the “Roman Road.” The Roman Road is a grouping…
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Christian Devotional – May 14, 2026
The Reluctant Follower, Day 20 Choose Your Ending. Read Jonah 4:11. Have you ever gotten to the end of a book or a movie and felt like they left issues unresolved? Have you been left wondering, “Wait? What happened next? How did it turn out?” Often, that’s how I feel when I read the end of the book of Jonah. We leave with God asking Jonah a question, and we never get Jonah’s answer. God has been using this time with Jonah to help him understand just how much God values people. God is their creator and he desires to see everyone understand who he is and the glory due…
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Christian Devotional – May 13, 2026
The Reluctant Follower, Day 19 Taking ownership. Read Jonah 4:10. One of the key lessons I strive to teach my kids is about the idea of taking ownership and maintaining accountability for something that they are responsible for. If they have something that they have helped to create or put together, then they have ownership over that and there’s a level of responsibility that they should feel toward it. There’s also a level of accountability that they should have with regard to that whatever that is. Where Jonah got mixed up is that he was taking ownership for something that he didn’t do and didn’t have any part of. He…
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Christian Devotional – May 11, 2026
The Reluctant Follower, Day 18 The foot stomp. Read Jonah 4:9. If you’ve ever seen a young child be upset about something, you’ve seen the foot stomp. There’s that moment when the parent or some other adult wants a child to do something, but the child doesn’t want to do it. So often, they cross their arms, make a face, and inevitably stomp their foot on the ground as if to emphatically say, “Absolutely not. I won’t do it!” Something about that foot stomp is supposed to convey their complete and total frustration and anger at whatever the situation is. Here, we see Jonah’s foot stomp. God has confronted him…