No one is able to overthrow the Gospel, because it is the power of God for salvation (Romans 1:16)Autor: Roger Courville

Everything is meaningless without Jesus.Autor: Roger Courville

God’s mission is carried out as we minister in the name of Jesus.Autor: Roger Courville

The church is a new community of new creations in Christ, who live on mission as citizens of his kingdomAutor: Roger Courville

His power, my witness.Autor: Roger Courville

Being a servant is a wonderful reality when you consider that our Master is JesusAutor: Roger Courville

I have treasured your word in my heart so that I may not sin against youAutor: Roger Courville

Only the empty heads stand up tall.Autor: Roger Courville

The gospel stands or falls on the reality that Christ rose from the dead according to the Scriptures.Autor: Roger Courville

Forgiving enemies is at the heart of following Jesus.Autor: Roger Courville

If you don’t think you could betray Jesus, you probably don’t know the full depth of your own sin yet.Autor: Roger Courville

Betrayal doesn’t have the final word in our lives. Jesus does.Autor: Roger Courville

Jesus said, “Follow me,” and we’re going to trust — utterly and completely — or not. The end is certain and coming, so we must get ready for it.Autor: Roger Courville

Someday you will answer the question: What have you done with my Son?Autor: Roger Courville

The good news of Jesus elicits opposition because it challenges flawed ideas of God, human spirituality, religious institutions, and societies.Autor: Roger Courville

Jesus subverts merit-based ideas of spirituality and what changes lives is God’s unmerited but freely given goodnessAutor: Roger Courville

In the kingdom of God accepted human values of status and importance are turned upside down.Autor: Roger Courville

The kingdom of God is already here, but there will be a future appearance of the Son of Man for which people will be unprepared.Autor: Roger Courville

Disciples are to see themselves as bondservants who do their dutyAutor: Roger Courville

Even in pain we can trust God’s power and providence.Autor: Roger Courville

The kingdom of God belongs to those who are humbly dedicated to him.Autor: Roger Courville

Not all who think they belong to the Kingdom of God really do.Autor: Roger Courville

One theme that bubbles up today:God is the all-knowing, always-present Creator who will judge both the righteous and the wickedAutor: Roger Courville

One theme that bubbles up today:Judgment must begin with the house of God.Autor: Roger Courville

Wherever God places you, be prepared for God-given responsibilities.Autor: Roger Courville

Self-reflection: What do we get when we show partiality?Autor: Roger Courville

If you shape Scripture to our own liking, you form for yourself a Jesus in your image rather than the other way around.Autor: Roger Courville

Even we who are fallible are essential in the revolutionary values of the kingdom of God.Autor: Roger Courville

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When God in Jesus makes broken lives whole, celebrate joyfully and tell others soberly and wisely what God has doneAutor: Roger Courville

One theme that bubbles up today:Will you let God subvert and remake your vision of — and relationship with — Him?Autor: Roger Courville

Stay focused on the Lord, because renewal happens on God’s timetable, not ours.Autor: Roger Courville

Doubt doesn’t have to be antithetical to trusting God to be a promise keeper.Autor: Roger Courville

The Good King’s compassion brings life to the dead, awe to the living, and a call to compassion to his disciples.Autor: Roger Courville

The proper response to God’s Word is to turn to God with wholehearted devotion.Autor: Roger Courville

Jesus can make you new, too.Autor: Roger Courville

God is able to extend life in the face of impending death.Autor: Roger Courville

God’s promise should compel risk-taking, life-giving, death-defying confidence in our Lord.Autor: Roger Courville

Jesus is the Davidic Messiah (Ps. 2:7), the Suffering Servant (Isa. 42:1), and the beloved Son, whom God will offer as a sacrifice for sins (Gen. 22:2)Autor: Roger Courville

God judges those who abandon him for idols by withholding his presence…and yet also sent his son on a rescue mission to all peoples everywhere.Autor: Roger Courville

God works through history-making governments and anonymous people like shepherds to accomplish his saving purposes. Even through you, if you let him.Autor: Roger Courville

God’s purposes will not be thwarted by evildoers.Autor: Roger Courville

Wisdom is the ability to approach life from God’s perspective.Autor: Roger Courville

As believers, we are called to participate in God’s redemptive plan by being intentionally Christian in our engagements.Autor: Roger Courville

One theme that bubbles up today:Truth without grace breeds self-righteous legalism; grace without truth breeds moral indifference.Bible used for reading today: Christian Standard Bible (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2020).Other sources consulted, quoted, or mentioned today:Randy Alcorn, The Grace and Truth Paradox: Responding with Christl…

In God’s presence we find our only satisfaction and our primary mission.Autor: Roger Courville

Just as Jesus obeyed the Father and suffered for humanity, we share in his sufferings by pursuing holiness and obedience.Autor: Roger Courville

Today is Easter, and our practice today will be all reading and no commentary. Because the ultimate relationship is between you and the word — and the word is inseparably both Jesus and the Bible.Autor: Roger Courville

Suffering reminds us that the way the world is was never God’s design and that a new heaven and earth are what to set our sights on.Autor: Roger Courville

Because somebody had to die for my sins...and it's not me.Autor: Roger Courville