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 Daily Prayer
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 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 Ten
16 Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers. 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.[a] 18 Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
(James 1:16-18, ESV)
The Morning Devotional
Season 10 | Edition 9
13 Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one. 14 But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. 15 Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.
(James 1:13-15, ESV)
October 30, 2025
The Morning Devotional
Season 10 | Edition 8
12 Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.
(James 1:12, ESV)
October 29, 2025
The Morning Devotional
Season 10 | Edition 7
10 and the rich in his humiliation, because like a flower of the grass he will pass away. For the sun rises with its scorching heat and withers the grass; its flower falls, and its beauty perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in the midst of his pursuits.
(James 1:10-11, ESV)
October 28, 2025
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)
Starting October 20, 2025, a new Morning Devotional series will begin. The series will focus on the book of James.
Each devotional will be in video format and posted to this website as well as www.theparchment.net (the pastor’s website). Additionally, the videos will be on his YouTube channel.
Read MoreDevotional for June 26, 2025
Reading: Numbers 11 | Galatians 5 | Psalm 124
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