Daily Devotion

This is a kind of lyrical song on the blessedness of Mary. Nowhere can we better see the paradox of blessedness than in her life. To Mary was granted the blessedness of being the mother of the Son of God. Her heart might well be filled a wondering,...

HEBREWS 2:1-4 The writer is arguing from the less to the greater. He has in his mind two revelations. One was the revelation of the law that came by the medium of the angels, that is to say, the Ten Commandments. Now, any breach of that law was...

1 Peter 2:1-3 But there is something on which Christians must set their hearts. They must yearn for the unadulterated milk of the word. This is a phrase about whose meaning there is some difficulty. The difficulty is with the word logikos which...

1 PETER:6-7 Peter comes to the actual situation in life that his readers found themselves in. Their Christianity had always made them unpopular, but now they were facing almost certain persecution. Soon the storm was going to break, and life was...

1 PETER 1:3-5 The Christian has entered into a great inheritance. Here is a word with a great history, for it is regularly used in the Greek Old Testament for the inheritance of Canaan, the promised Land. Again and again, the Old Testament speaks...

JAMES 1:26-27 We must be careful to understand what James is saying here. The Revised Standard Version translates the phrases at the beginning of verse 27: "Religion that is pure and undefiled is..." The word that is translated religion is...