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TODAY Devotional for 03/29/2024 by Kent Van Til

Jesus is the Resurrection and the Life

Scripture Reading — John 11:17-27; 1 Corinthians 15:20-23 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die.”— John 11:25This quotation is a brief summary of the good news of Jesus. He says that anyone who believ

TODAY Devotional for 03/28/2024 by Kent Van Til

Jesus Chooses Life for Us

Scripture Reading — Deuteronomy 30:15-20 This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life. . . .— Deuteronomy 30:19In Deuteronomy, Moses is giving his farewell speech to God’s pe

TODAY Devotional for 03/27/2024 by Kent Van Til

Jesus Shows God’s Love for the World

Scripture Reading — Genesis 1:27-30 God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.— John 3:16Notice that God loves this whole, great big world. He doesn’t just love only a few people—or even all people—but

TODAY Devotional for 03/26/2024 by Kent Van Til

Jesus Conquers All for Us

Scripture Reading — Romans 8:31-39 Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers . . . nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.— Romans 8:38-39M

TODAY Devotional for 03/25/2024 by Kent Van Til

Jesus Renews All Creation

Scripture Reading — Romans 8:18-27 The creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.— Romans 8:21Did you know that God’s plan of salvation includes more than the saving of human souls? For many Christ

TODAY Devotional for 03/24/2024 by Kent Van Til

Jesus Welcomes Us Home

Scripture Reading — John 14:1-4 “My father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?”— John 14:2There is nothing like a good homecoming. Perhaps you enjoyed one recently. Family members return home. Chi

TODAY Devotional for 03/23/2024 by Kent Van Til

Jesus Builds Us a Home

Scripture Reading — 1 Peter 2:4-10 Like living stones, [you] are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.— 1 Peter 2:5Jesus came as the Savior to bring us into God’s family, providing us a

TODAY Devotional for 03/22/2024 by Kent Van Til

Jesus Reveals the One True God

Scripture Reading — John 17:1-7, 20-23 “Father . . . glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you. . . . Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.”— John 17:1-3Many years before Jesus came, the Lord God Almighty c

TODAY Devotional for 03/21/2024 by Kent Van Til

Jesus Dies for His Friends

Scripture Reading — John 15:9-17 “Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.”— John 15:13In our Scripture reading for today we see that Jesus calls his disciples “friends.” Friendship is based on mutual love. A friend is someone you can talk w

TODAY Devotional for 03/20/2024 by Kent Van Til

Jesus, the True Word of God

Scripture Reading — John 1:1-5, 14; Hebrews 1:1-3 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.— John 1:1In John 1 the Greek term for “Word” is logos. John chose this word carefully. In Greek philosophy the word logos referred to divine reason

TODAY Devotional for 03/19/2024 by Kent Van Til

Jesus Gives Us Living Water

Scripture Reading — John 4:4-26 “Whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”— John 4:14Water is basic and fundamental to life. I once heard a biologist say that when Go

TODAY Devotional for 03/18/2024 by Kent Van Til

Jesus Brings Us Into Truth

Scripture Reading — John 14:5-7, 15-17; 18:37 “I am the way and the truth and the life.”— John 14:6It is sometimes hard to face the truth, especially when the truth is that we have messed up. Instead we make excuses. We think we are exceptional: “I didn’t really mean it that w