Family Devotions and Bible Readings

S     Phillipians 4:5 Let your gentleness be evident to all.

O     Our walk should show the gentleness, goodness, and love of God who having paid our sin price in full, purchased us.

A     I continuously struggle with showing gentleness to people who disagree with me. I am certainly tryi...

S     1 Thessalonians 5:5-6     For you are all children of the light and of the day; we don't belong to darkness and night. So be on your guard, not asleep like the others. Stay alert and be sober...

S     Ephesians 5:8     For once you were full of darkness, but now you have light from the Lord. So live as people of light!

O     When living in darkness, we have no other choice than to love the shallow living of full darkness. Our desires, our intentions, our goals, and our thoughts...

S     Romans 14:23 If you do anything you believe is not right, you are sinning.

O     We are sinning each time we do something we believe we should not do. Even if later we find that it was not wrong to do it, we sinned because we disobeyed what we thought God wanted us to do or not do...

S      Proverbs 22:1 Choose a good reputation over great riches; being held in high esteem is better than silver or gold.

O     This verse speaks of integrity and honor. Things such as keep your word are not outdated terms, they are basic requirements of Christians. Our reputation, our inte...

S     James 2:13     For there will be no mercy for you if you have not been merciful to others. But if you have been merciful, then God's mercy toward you will win out over his judgment against you...

S     Luke 6:36     You must be compassionate, just as your Father is compassionate.

O     God wants us to imitate Him. Not to desire to be Him, but to imitate Him. He wants us to imitate Him because as a perfect, pure, and holy God, He always does what is best. If He wants us to imitate...

S Zechariah 7:8-10  Then this message came to Zechariah from the Lord: “This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says: Judge fairly, and show mercy and kindness to one another.  Do not oppress widows, orphans, foreigners, and the poor. And do not scheme against each other...

S 1 John 3:18-19 Dear children, let’s not merely say that we love each other; let us show the truth by our actions. Our actions will show that we belong to the truth, so we will be confident when we stand before God...

S Leviticus 27:30 “One tenth of the produce of the land, whether grain from the fields or fruit from the trees, belongs to the Lord and must be set apart to him as holy.”

O This passage talks about the requirement for tithing to the Israelites. A tenth of all produce belonged to the Lord and was...