Keep your behavior excellent among the Gentiles, so that in the thing in which they slander you as evildoers, they may because of your good deeds, as they observe them, glorify God in the day of visitation. — 1 PETER 2:12 — Oleg Kalyn: Grace Bible Seminary | Ukraine When Jesus gave the Great Commission to … Read More
Today's Devotional
Help from the Hills
I lift up my eyes to the mountains. From where shall my help come? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth. — PSALM 121:1-2 — Gideon Manda: Central African Preaching Academy | Malawi Life is a journey one begins at birth. The journey comes to an end when one’s final breath is … Read More
Purified by God’s Word
Vindicate me, O Lord, for I have walked in my integrity, and I have trusted in the Lord without wavering. Examine me, O Lord, and try me; test my mind and my heart. For Your lovingkindness is before my eyes, and I have walked in Your truth. — PSALM 26:1–3 — Julio Pacheco: Evangelical Ministries of the … Read More
The Silent Symphony
The heavens are telling of the glory of God; and their expanse is declaring the work of His hands. — PSALM 19:1 — Aaron Darlington: TMAI Headquarters | USA The universe is filled with wonder. We are awestruck by the ocean’s magnitude, fascinated by ingenuity, and allured by the intoxicating aroma of fresh-roasted coffee. … Read More
God’s Word Is Important for Your Soul
Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you, with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God. — COLOSSIANS 3:16 — Timur R. | Russia It’s impossible to count the number of words that pass into our minds in the course … Read More
A Diverse Unity
For just as we have many members in one body and all the members do not have the same function, so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. — ROMANS 12:4-5 — Filiberto Angeles Dorantes: Word of Grace Biblical Seminary | Mexico With this illustration, Paul … Read More
Defeating Despair
Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why have you become disturbed within me? Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him, the help of my countenance and my God. — PSALM 42:11 — Marcus Denny: Czech Bible Institute | Czech Republic Trials, painful and sorrowful as they may be, can never be … Read More
Asia
ASIA Schools Classified With the highest concentration of the world’s population in Asia, it is no wonder that this is also the region with the largest diversity of false religions. Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Shinto, and Confucianism are just some of the dominant religions in the region. Many countries are closed to the gospel, but by … Read More
Holiness Through the Word of God
Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth. — JOHN 17:17 — Kohki Minamida: Japan Bible Academy | Japan When we fail to do the right things, when we ignore what we must do, and when we do not walk as we should, we sin against God and do not live in holiness. … Read More
Conformed or Transformed?
Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of … Read More
No Thanks? No, Thanks!
In everything give thanks; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. — 1 THESSALONIANS 5:18 — Bruce Alvord: Grace Bible Seminary | Ukraine This verse doesn’t say to give thanks for everything but to give thanks in everything. How far we are from this! We often feel that we deserve better. But, as … Read More
Commanded to Forgive
And if he sins against you seven times a day, and returns to you seven times, saying, “I repent,” forgive him. — LUKE 17:4 — Israel Corral Lopez: Berea Seminary | Spain We live in a society where we are encouraged from an early age to fight back if someone hits us. This absurd advice is … Read More
Don’t Trust Your Heart
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight. — PROVERBS 3:5-6 — E. A. | Middle East Our hearts are often the reason our Christian lives become tiresome and ineffective, why our marital … Read More
Living for Christ, Dying for Christ
For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. — PHILIPPIANS 1:21 — Marco Bartholomae: European Bible Training Center | Germany This verse explains everything that Paul was living for and was willing to die for. He was completely convinced that his future was secure in Christ. Nothing was able to separate him from … Read More
Canceled Debt
When you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions, having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it … Read More
Don’t Hold Back!
… speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord. — EPHESIANS 5:19 — Abraham Ramos: The Expositor’s Academy | Philippines Congregational singing is one of my favorite parts during a Sunday worship service, second only to the preaching of God’s word. Oftentimes, I … Read More
Motivations to Christlikeness
So then, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure. — PHILIPPIANS 2:12-13 — … Read More
The Union of Love and Obedience
If you love Me, you will keep My commandments — JOHN 14:15 — Astrit A. | Albania This verse is short but contains a massive truth. Jesus presents it as a condition. If the first part of the sentence is true, then the second part will also be true. If we love Him, we will keep … Read More
