Month: February 2011
Click here to read Luke 14 on BibleGateway.com You’re in for a special treat today, my friends. We get to have a real life illustration from good ole US history about today’s passage. I bet you can hardly wait. In…
Click here to read Luke 13 on BibleGateway.com Sometimes we miss some of the undercurrents of Bible passages because we read them so fast. Most of us have probably read today’s chapter many times, but we may have missed an…
Click here to read Luke 12 on BibleGateway.com We live in a world that has raised worry to an art form. And not just any art form, but the greatest art form known to the world: television. Shows started out…
Click here to read Luke 11 on BibleGateway.com Have you ever noticed that Jesus rarely answers the way people want? It’s one of the characteristics of Jesus that he speaks to people and not about people. One of the more…
Click here to read Luke 10 on BibleGateway.com What should our strategy be to reach the lost? Do we engage them on their own ground? Learn as much as we can about evolution, satanism, post-modernism, cults, or the like? Do…
Click here to read Luke 9 on BibleGateway.com There’s a lot to be said for new translations of the Bible; they’re easier to read, easier to understand, and (arguably) easier to apply because they relate more directly to our lives….
Click here to read Luke 8 on BibleGateway.com Do you ever get the feeling that you’re focused on the wrong thing? A lot (maybe all)of magic tricks are based on the idea of misdirection. The performer grabs your attention with…
Click here to read Luke 7 on BibleGateway.com One of Jesus’ defining characteristics was his habit of responding to people’s hearts rather than to their words. When people asked him questions, he would frequently ask them a question or tell…
Click here to read Luke 6 on BibleGateway.com We like to think that we are reasonable people. That we choose to order the quad-pounder burger and extra fries because we are just that hungry, or that we objectively evaluate the…
Click here to read Luke 5 on BibleGateway.com We spend a lot of time looking for hidden meanings in Scripture. We look to find number codes, and dates, and prophecies hidden in every 22nd letter of the Psalms that start…
Click here to read Luke 4 on BibleGateway.com You’ll no doubt have noticed that CS Lewis is one of our favorites at Everyday Devotions, and once again he illustrates a key point in just a few lines. One of the…
Click here to read Luke 3 on BibleGateway.com Plagiarism alert: Today’s lesson steals unashamedly from other Bible teachers, so you may already be familiar with the particular point we make today, but it’s so good it bears repeating on the…
Click here to read Luke 2 on BibleGateway.com Heads up, my friends. Prepare thyself for an abrupt turn. After a couple weeks hanging with Job and his oh-so-encouraging buddies, we’re gonna take a little break and visit with the New…
Click here to read Job 14 on BibleGateway.com One of the fun things about reading books of the Bible that we normally gloss over (looking at you, Leviticus) is that we get to see aspects of the Bible that we…
Click here to read Job 13 on BibleGateway.com Today we look at one of the more insane pursuits of mankind: skydiving. Now, some of us have relatives who skydive, and you may even skydive yourself. They say that it’s really…
Click here to read Job 12 on BibleGateway.com There’s a common historical debate that’s been going on for a couple centuries, every since man first started recording his past on the ole clay tablets. How much of history is manmade…
Click here to read Job 11 on BibleGateway.com Oh, how the temptation to share our wisdom is hard to resist. We give people advice whether they ask for it or not, tell the pastor what so-and-so is up to to…
Click here to read Job 10 on BibleGateway.com It’s a funny thing for those of us who grew up in church, but we often don’t realize how racy the Bible can be. Those of us raised on the good ole…
Click here to read Job 9 on BibleGateway.com Sometimes for Everyday Devotions we like to try to find ways to apply scripture, sometimes we try to explore the personalities of the people in the Bible, and sometimes (like today) we…
Click here to read Job 8 on BibleGateway.com After the generally gentle reproach from Eliphaz, today we get to hear from Bildad, who tends to be a little more aggressive and a lot more sarcastic. Fun to read; probably less…
Click here to read Job 7 on BibleGateway.com Old ideas die hard. Job today again reiterates a familiar question: if he had sinned, why didn’t God forgive him and pardon his offenses? In other words, if God forgives sins, why…
Click here to read Job 6 on BibleGateway.com After the somewhat bittersweet advice from Eliphaz the last couple days, we get to hear Job’s first response. Not surprisingly, his responses ramble a little bit. You’ll notice as we go through…
Click here to read Job 5 on BibleGateway.com If you’re in the mood for a little advice this morning, here’s your 2 lincolns worth: get a notebook of some sort to keep track of what Job and his friends say…
Click here to read Job 4 on BibleGateway.com Before we begin today, let’s get out our soapbox and polish that bad boy up. Beginning today, we will be looking at speeches from several of Job’s friends, usually one at a…
Click here to read Job 3 on BibleGateway.com A few years ago, the big rage was 3-D pictures. If you’re either too big or too little to remember, everyone was making these artistic monstrosities of a bunch of different squiggles…
Click here to read Job 2 on BibleGateway.com It’s always fun to find out the little quirks in the Bible. There’s nothing like finding a nugget of Scripture like an extra walnut in a brownie. Today we get to look…
Today is our monthly Membership Day. Check out the membership page for all the awesomeness. Click here to read Job 1 on BibleGateway.com Well, my friends, we’ve finished with some of the history books of the Old Testament, and we’re moving…
Click here to read Esther 9-10 on BibleGateway.com One of our goals here at EverydayDevotions.com is to look at some of the more difficult passages in the Bible and face them square on. If we believe the Bible is inspired…