Today in the Word Devotional

It’s been almost 100 years since Harry Dixon Loes, an alumnus of both Moody Bible Institute and the American Conservatory of Music, wrote the song, “This Little Light of Mine.” For decades children ha …

When you love someone, it’s hard to keep quiet about it. In his Reflections on the Psalms, C. S. Lewis wrote, “I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but co …

Paul both practiced and preached prayer. While he never wrote a manual on conversing with God, his letters contain more references to prayer than the rest of the New Testament books combined. In today …

In 1563 John Foxe published the first edition of what would be known as Foxe’s Book of Martyrs. At the time it was the most ambitious book ever published, one foot tall, two palm-width-wide tome full …

Mary and Joseph had been told by angels that their son was no ordinary boy, but like all firstborn sons, they took Him to the temple at the appointed time to be consecrated to the Lord. While there, t …

Today we start a section on worshipful prayer in the New Testament by looking at one of the most beautiful and joyful passages in the entire Bible. Elizabeth and Mary were women whose lives were under …

Prison isn’t exactly the place you would expect to hear songs of praise and thanksgiving, but that’s what we find in Ephesians 1. We don’t know exactly where Paul was when he wrote this letter to the …

Paul started most letters with words of thanksgiving, but few of his introductory remarks have as much joy and enthusiasm as the first chapter of Philippians. He had a special place in his heart for t …

Our survey of prayer in the New Testament is organized by categories—intercession, thanksgiving, worship, and petition. But the savvy reader will notice that these categories are fluid and often overl …

A 2011 survey by the United States Postal Service indicated that the typical American home receives a personal letter—not including greeting cards or invitations—once every seven weeks. It was once ev …

Hannah Hurnard, author of the classic Christian allegory Hinds’ Feet on High Places, once wrote, “An intercessor means one who is in such vital contact with God and with his fellow men that he is like …

“Do as I say, not as I do.” It’s a tempting refrain, especially for parents who live under the constant scrutiny of sets of small eyes. And it’s not always the wrong message. Children ought to wait un …

Charles Spurgeon told about two men whose boat got caught in dangerous rapids. The current was carrying them downstream toward large rocks, a waterfall, and certain death. The men were struggling in v …

Simone Weil was a French philosopher in the early part of the twentieth century. Despite being raised a secular Jew, she developed an interest in the beliefs and practices of Christianity as she got o …

In the summer of 2011 a rumor caused officials in the southern Indian state of Kerala to investigate the contents of the vaults beneath the Sri Padmanabhaswamy temple. The sixteenth-century shrine to …