Is God Real? How Would I Know?
An honest first answer: the world points to a Maker, and God has spoken most clearly in Jesus.
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What Is the Gospel, in Plain Words?
The gospel is the good news that Jesus died for our sins, was buried, and rose again, and that God forgives everyone who trusts him.
Where Do I Start Reading?
Don’t start at page one. Start with a Gospel, like Mark, and read one short piece a day for a week.
What Is the Bible, Anyway?
Not one book but a library of 66, written over about 1,500 years, telling one story that points to Jesus.
Morning – October 25 | Spurgeon Devotional
Scripture because of the truth that abides in us and will be with us forever: — 2 John 2 (ESV) Devotional Once let the truth of God obtain an entrance into the human heart and subdue the whole man unto itself, no power human or infernal can dislodge it. We entertain it not as a … Read more
Spectacle Seekers
Do I go to church to feel something, or to get fed? Jonathan Edwards’s Religious Affections holds up a mirror to history’s spectacle seekers, and to us.
Evening – October 24 | Spurgeon Devotional
Scripture Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him. — John 13:5 (ESV) Devotional The Lord Jesus loves his people so much, that every day he is still doing for them much that is analogous to washing … Read more
Morning – October 24 | Spurgeon Devotional
Scripture The trees of the LORD are watered abundantly, the cedars of Lebanon that he planted. — Psalm 104:16 (ESV) Devotional Without sap the tree cannot flourish or even exist. Vitality is essential to a Christian. There must be life–a vital principle infused into us by God the Holy Ghost, or we cannot be trees … Read more
Evening – October 23 | Spurgeon Devotional
Scripture and he said to them, “Why are you sleeping? Rise and pray that you may not enter into temptation.” — Luke 22:46 (ESV) Devotional When is the Christian most liable to sleep? Is it not when his temporal circumstances are prosperous? Have you not found it so? When you had daily troubles to take … Read more
Lo-Ruhamah: No Mercy, Then Mercy
God told Hosea to name his daughter No Mercy (Hos 1:6). Then God reversed it, and Peter says that reversal is our story too (1 Pet 2:10). Names Milk.