Category: Daily Devotion

1 John 5: 18 – 21  NLT “We know that God’s children do not make a practice of sinning, for God’s Son holds them securely, and the evil one cannot touch them. 19 We know that we are children of God and that the world around us is under the control of the evil one. 20 And we...

Today is going to be a “teaching day”.  The verses today are difficult to understand, and many theologians have come up with various interpretations. As you know, my passion is that you read Scriptures completely – not just look at verses here and there. We need to know what God is telling us. I must...

1 John 5: 13 – 15   NLT “I have written this to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know you have eternal life. 14 And we are confident that he hears us whenever we ask for anything that pleases him. 15 And since we know he hears us when we...

1 John 5: 1 – 12  NLT “Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has become a child of God. And everyone who loves the Father loves his children, too. 2 We know we love God’s children if we love God and obey his commandments. 3 Loving God means keeping his commandments, and his commandments are not burdensome. 4 For every...

1 John 4: 7 “Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God.” Today, I’m quoting a section of Charles Swindoll’s commentary, Insights for Living: 1 John. He gives us a way to apply what we learned yesterday about...

1 John 4: 7 – 21  (NLT) “7 Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. 8 But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love. 9 God showed how much he loved...

1 John 4: 1 – 6   (NLT) “Dear friends, do not believe everyone who claims to speak by the Spirit. You must test them to see if the spirit they have comes from God. For there are many false prophets in the world. 2 This is how we know if they have the Spirit of God: If...

1 John 3: 11  NLT  “This is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another.”  That is the crucial statement of this chapter.  John heard that statement at the Last Supper, and he took it to heart.      John 13:34-35  NLT “So now I am giving you a new...

1 John 3: 4 – 10   NLT “Everyone who sins is breaking God’s law, for all sin is contrary to the law of God. 5 And you know that Jesus came to take away our sins, and there is no sin in him. 6 Anyone who continues to live in him will not sin. But anyone who keeps on...

1 John 2: 28 – 3: 3  NLT “And now, dear children, remain in fellowship with Christ so that when he returns, you will be full of courage and not shrink back from him in shame. 29 Since we know that Christ is righteous, we also know that all who do what is right are God’s...

Before we start reading today, I want to mention a couple of things that will make the reading easier. In verse 18, John writes, “You have heard that the Antichrist is coming, and already many such antichrists have appeared.”  What is he talking about when he says antichrist, and why is one capitalized and the...

1 John 2: 12 – 14     NLT “I am writing to you who are God’s children    because your sins have been forgiven through Jesus.13 I am writing to you who are mature in the faith    because you know Christ, who existed from the beginning.I am writing to you who are young in the faith    because you have won your...

1 John 2: 1 – 11  NLT “My dear children, I am writing this to you so that you will not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate who pleads our case before the Father. He is Jesus Christ, the one who is truly righteous. 2 He himself is the sacrifice that atones for...

1 John 1: 5 – 10  NLT “This is the message we heard from Jesus and now declare to you: God is light, and there is no darkness in him at all. 6 So we are lying if we say we have fellowship with God but go on living in spiritual darkness; we are not practicing the truth. 7 But...

Today, we begin going through 1 John. There are 3 different scriptures that you will read today that tell us who Jesus is.  Read those verses slowly. Absorb what they say; they make such a huge difference in our lives. 1 John 1: 1 – 4  NLT “We proclaim to you the one who existed...

As I sleep tonight I can hear the gentle crashing of the ocean waves against the rocks just outside my door.  I am visiting at my brother and sister-in-law’s and they have a cottage literally right on the ocean.  At first the noise of the wind and the waves was gentle, but after our chatting...

Ben Kilham didn’t learn like other children in school.  He couldn’t read well when it came to the written word but this was by no means a measure of his intelligence, because when it came to animals in the wild, Ben could certainly read their signals.  In fact, this naturalist from New England, USA is...

Here is a math trick for you.  Pick any number.  Add the next higher number to it.  Add 9 and divide by 2.  Now subtract the original number.  The answer will always be 5.  If you approach someone and tell them to pick any number and not tell you what it is, and then you...

I visited a fjord over March break.  We headed up island as a family and walked amongst the treetops on a boardwalk in the sky.  After climbing 32 meters in the air we had a literal ‘bird’s eye view’ of the fjord.  All around were pine trees and cedars.  The ocean was vast and we...

Spring is upon us and all around is new life.  Just a few weeks ago piglets were born on our sons’ farm.  There is a fawn in the area and tulips and cherry blossoms are everywhere.  In some provinces the crocuses are poking their heads out of snow, and in others the hills are covered...