The Morning Devotional
Season 10 | Edition 43
February 5, 2026
In this final edition of Season Ten, I give a summary and briefv pastoral suggestions regarding the letter of James
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Psalm 114
August 24, 2026
The Morning Devotional: Psalm 114
Prayer: Our great God in heaven, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, we give you thanks for revealing yourself to poor and miserable creatures of dust. You made us. We belong to you. You fashioned us after your image to enjoy you. Yet, we sinned and brought shame and dishonor to that image you gave us.
It's a common observation that a local church, like any other gathering of people, is not immune to conflict. When a group of individuals, all sinners, come together, it's only natural that disputes will arise. These conflicts can even occur between people who share the same love for the Lord and Savior as you do.
We live in a world of instant information. Yet, with our access through various mediums and devices, God’s people are more biblically illiterate than ever in history. Not long ago, parents catechized their children, conducted family worship each evening, and spent time praying together as families. Not long ago, missing worship (both services) would have been unthinkable. Things have changed in our modern world, and I am not convinced they have changed for the better. The fruit of our failures to catechize, conduct family worship, and teach the importance of corporate worship each Lord’s Day is rotten. Its effects are visible across the spectrum of our culture and, worse, our churches.
The Morning Devotional
Season 10 | Edition 43
February 5, 2026
In this final edition of Season Ten, I give a summary and briefv pastoral suggestions regarding the letter of James
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Season 10 | Edition 41
February 3, 2026
14 Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. 15 And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. 16 Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working. 17 Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth. 18 Then he prayed again, and heaven gave rain, and the earth bore its fruit.
(James 5:14-18, ESV)
The Morning Devotional
Season 10 | Edition 24
December 9, 2025
2 For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body. 3 If we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies as well. 4 Look at the ships also: though they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs. 5 So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire! 6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness.
(James 3:2-6a, ESV)
The Morning Devotional
Season 10 | Edition 19
November 14, 2025
14 What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him?
(James 2:14, ESV)
The Morning Devotional
Season 10 | Edition 17
November 12, 2025
5 Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him? 6 But you have dishonored the poor man. Are not the rich the ones who oppress you, and the ones who drag you into court? 7 Are they not the ones who blaspheme the honorable name by which you were called?
(James 2:5-7)
The Morning Devotional
Season 10 | Edition 14
November 7, 2025
26 If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person's religion is worthless.
(James 1:26, ESV)
The Morning Devotional
Season 10 | Edition 12
November 4, 2025
22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. 24 For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like.
(James 1:22-24, ESV)
The Morning Devotional
Season 10 | Edition 6
9 Let the lowly brother boast in his exaltation,(James 1:6-8, ESV)
Season 10 | Edition 6
The Morning Devotional
Season 10 | Edition 5
6 But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind. 7 For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; 8 he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
(James 1:6-8, ESV)
The Morning Devotional
Season 10 | Edition 4
5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.
(James 1:5, ESV)
Season 10 | Edition 4
The Morning Devotional
Season 10 | Edition 3
5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.
(James 1:5, ESV)