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Click here to read Isaiah 50 on BibleGateway.com For your enjoyment, I give you the best joke of Immanuel Kant: An Englishman at an Indian’s table in Surat saw a bottle of ale being opened, and all the beer, turned…
Click here to read Deuteronomy 22 on BibleGateway.com Back in the 60s and 70s in the US, there was a popular philosophy that said basically “as long as you don’t hurt someone, you can do whatever you want.” If you…
Click here to read Isaiah 48 on BibleGateway.com There’s an old saying (old in that I can’t remember where I first heard it, coupled with being too lazy to look it up) that says “most of us spend the week…
Click here to read Isaiah 43 on BibleGateway.com Why is it we like to add to the Bible? A few years ago, one of the more common phrases you would hear in sermons was the idea that “you will never…
Click here to read Psalm 99 on BibleGateway.com Back in the day, every playground designed for children had the instrument of humiliation known as the See-Saw or TeeterTotter. Nothing says “hey, you’re a big fatty” like requiring four of your…
Click here to read Isaiah 33 on BibleGateway.com One of the big challenges of the post-modern Christian is to separate our understanding of the Bible from our culture. Not that this is a new thing, of course. The ancient Romans…
Click here to read Isaiah 2 on BibleGateway.com When you’re a kid, grownups often talk about the responsibilities that go along with adulthood: rent, insurance, frivolous things like food. What they don’t tell you is one of the greatest joys…
Click here to read Numbers 45 on BibleGateway.com [Today’s post is for adults only. Parental guidance is suggested. In fact, more parental guidance would be good in general in our world.] Ok, today let’s confront an issue that is rampant…
Click here to read Numbers 8 on BibleGateway.com This is one of the best times of the year, and not just because it’s fun to sneeze snot all over everyone’s new spring outfits (thanks, pollen!). All across this great land,…
Click here to read John 3 on BibleGateway.com Writing a devotional on John 3 is like opening a box of Krispy Kremes and deciding which one to eat: no matter what you pick, you know it’s gonna be awesome. There’s…
Sigh. This is going to be a rough one today, so prepare yourself. Normally EveryDay Devotions tries to steer clear of controversial topics, but every once in a while, they come up. What can we do but face them head…
Click here to read Acts 20 on BibleGateway.com Have you ever been compelled to do something? For example, are you now compelled to ask Mr. Google what “compelled” means? Never fear: compelled means to force or oblige someone to do…
Click here to read Genesis 15 on BibleGateway.com No question about it, the Bible has many passages that are somewhat difficult to understand. Ridiculous might be a better word. Swallowed by a big fish? Really? Coins in a fish’s mouth?…
Click here to read Acts 11 on BibleGateway.com Ministry can be difficult. Look at poor Peter in today’s reading. He goes out to evangelize, has a eye-opening spiritual experience, witnesses to a completely unreached people group, sees a wonderful revival…
Click here to read Ezra 8 on BibleGateway.com Have you ever put your foot in your mouth? Not physically, of course. That’s just gross. Unless you’re a baby, then it’s adorable. Of course, babies can get away with all kinds…
Click here to read Acts 7 on BibleGateway.com “That’s the last straw.” Have you ever wondered what the last straw really is? Like, for example, when one is hypothetically eating a couple dozen cookies, there comes a point when one…
Click here to read Genesis 6 on BibleGateway.com Have you ever read a book on optical illusions? If so, why? You know the pictures are lying to you. Dirty little weasels. And yet you just keep turning page after page,…
Click here to read Matthew 4 on BibleGateway.com Temptation. The bag of Oreos on the counter next to the apple. The empty country road with nary a police officer in sight. The Facebook feed beckoning during study time. The cat…
Click here to read Genesis 3 on BibleGateway.com Ah, the holidays. In many parts of the world, we are only partway through the “twelve days of Christmas.” (December 25 to January 6). That means we are right in the middle…
Click here to read Ezra 2 on BibleGateway.com There’s a lot to be thankful for in this modern world. The Interwebs give us access to just about any information we need at the touch of a button, not to mention…
Click here to read Acts 1 on BibleGateway.com A new year upon us, my friends. And there was much rejoicing in the land. Whoopadeedoo. As with any new year, you may be tempted to make this year better than last….
Click here to read Daniel 1 on BibleGateway.com Sometimes certain concepts are hard to get ahold of. Like prepositions aren’t good to end sentences with. Or that pizza can actually be a health food. Or that beehive hairdos were once…
Click here to read 2 Samuel 20 on BibleGateway.com If you had one word to describe yourself, what would it be? Is it possible to sum up a person with one adjective? For instance, if a friend of yours was…
Click here to read Mark 5 on BibleGateway.com Since it’s summer, it’s only fitting that we talk about camp now and again. After all, it’s the one week a year that young people get away from their parents, spend time…
Click here to read Jermiah 15 on BibleGateway.com Futility. Such a great word. It almost laughs at our futile attempts at spelling or pronouncing it correctly. How many words can openly mock you with their meaning by their very existence?…
It’s awfully tempting to take the Gospel personally. If we preach to a crowd, and a thousand people get saved, we consider that God must really be using us (or that other evangelist). We do a little dance, maybe write…
Click here to read Joshua 24 on BibleGateway.com Ignorance can be bliss. If you don’t know exactly how a twinkie is made, you can just sit back and eat a dozen with no thought for what exactly you’re putting in…
Click here to read Matthew 26 on BibleGateway.com Is there anything that fills the common man with a sense of drunken power more than knowing a secret about somebody else? Let’s say you know that Bob in Cubicle A113 is…
There’s always a bit of tension between God’s blessings and our own work. Jesus tells us that we should not worry about the future because God will provide all our needs, yet he also tells us to be wise with…
Click here to read Psalm 33 on BibleGateway.com Traversing through the entire Bible, one must admit that there are some areas of the road that are tougher than others (looking at you, Leviticus). But every once in a while, we…
Click here to read Job 35 on BibleGateway.com Elihu, the speaker in today’s reading, is one of the great unfortunately-ignored people in the Bible If you’re not familiar with his story, let’s summarize: Job loses everything he has; his three…
Click here to read Exodus 16 on BibleGateway.com Sometimes I’m amazed there’s not more face-punching in the Bible. All of us have felt the frustration of knowing what’s going to happen, telling someone what’s going to happen, and then watching…
Click here to read Exodus 12 on BibleGateway.com One of the difficulties of living the Christian life is that often people outside the Christian family have a partial understanding of what the Bible says, and then they judge the whole…
Click here to read Genesis 25 on BibleGateway.com Genesis is one of my favorite books of the Bible. It’s so easy to read; not as easy as a month’s worth of Far Side of course, but slightly easier than Leviticus….
Click here to read Acts 22 on BibleGateway.com When I was a kid, my brothers and I had a bit of a climbing problem. No bridge, building, or tree was safe from our vertical determination. However, you may be startled…
Click here to read Nehemiah 7 on BibleGateway.com I can deny it no longer; I have somewhat of a Bible-crush on Nehemiah. As we’ve seen elsewhere, Nehemiah was a genius when it came to city administration, but I have to…
Click here to read Genesis 11 on BibleGateway.com As you may have gathered from various other points throughout this site, Everyday Devotions is a little bit a stickler when it comes to what the Bible actually says (*coughretentivecough*). Nothing gets…
Click here to read Matthew 9 on BibleGateway.com In the words of one of the epic wise men of our time, many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our point of view. For instance, it’s undeniably true…
Click here to read Acts 8 on BibleGateway.com Why is it that the right thing is always so painful? Why do you have to work so hard to work out? Why is it better to save than to spend? Why…
Click here to read Genesis 7 on BibleGateway.com Can I share a pet peeve with you? Actually, I have several pet peeves, like when you’re eating a box of oreos and your kids keep whining like “we haven’t eaten in…