OUT OF OUR MINDS
Daily Devotional Philippians 4:1–9 One day, not long after I had begun to follow Jesus, I walked out the door and met a friend coming up...
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Dr John Koessler
Aug 20, 20232 min read
IMPERFECT EXAMPLES
Daily Devotional Philippians 3:12–21 Have you ever seen the Christian slogan: “Not perfect, just forgiven”? We might be tempted to...
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Dr John Koessler
Aug 18, 20232 min read
LEARNING HOW TO LOSE
Daily Devotional Philippians 3:1–11 C. T. Studd was born to wealth and prestige on December 2, 1860. He distinguished himself as an...
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Dr John Koessler
Aug 17, 20232 min read
WORKING OUT SALVATION
Daily Devotional Philippians 2:12–30 Can you have both fear and love? 1 John 4:18 observes, “There is no fear in love. But perfect love...
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Dr John Koessler
Aug 16, 20232 min read
THE MINDSET OF JESUS
Daily Devotional Philippians 2:1–11 Followers of Jesus initially called themselves “the Way” (Acts 9:2; 19:9, 23; 24:14, 22). When the...
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Dr John Koessler
Aug 15, 20232 min read
REASONS TO REJOICE
Daily Devotional Philippians 1:12–30 In the account of his conversion, Surprised by Joy, C. S. Lewis describes joy as “a pointer to...
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Dr John Koessler
Aug 14, 20232 min read
THANKFUL FOR GOD’S PEOPLE
Daily Devotional Philippians 1:1–11 If you had asked Paul which of the New Testament churches was his favorite, he might probably have...
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Dr John Koessler
Aug 13, 20232 min read
THE SECRET OF SPIRITUAL STRENGTH
Daily Devotional Ephesians 6:10–23 When I began attending church regularly in the early 1970s, it was customary for people to dress up....
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Dr John Koessler
Aug 12, 20232 min read
SUBMISSION TO GOD
Daily Devotional Ephesians 6:1–9 Escaped slave, abolitionist, and statesmen Frederick Douglass observed, “Between the Christianity of...
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Dr John Koessler
Aug 11, 20232 min read
SUBMIT TO ONE ANOTHER
Daily Devotional Ephesians 5:21–33 In a culture that prizes independence, submission is not a popular idea. Many modern readers bristle...
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Dr John Koessler
Aug 10, 20232 min read
MARKS OF WISE LIVING
Daily Devotional Ephesians 5:1–20 According to Tertullian, the North African theologian who lived around 160–220 AD, the early church...
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Dr John Koessler
Aug 10, 20232 min read
THE WAY OF LIFE
Daily Devotional Ephesians 4:17–32 Followers of Jesus were not always called Christians. The term Christian first appeared in Antioch...
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Dr John Koessler
Aug 8, 20232 min read
A WORTHY LIFE
Daily Devotional Ephesians 4:1–16 In his beloved hymn, “Amazing Grace,” John Newton celebrates how God “saved a wretch like me.” The...
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Dr John Koessler
Aug 7, 20232 min read
PRAYING FOR INSIGHT
Daily Devotional Ephesians 3:14–21 William Willimon once observed, “We preachers so want to be heard that we are willing to make the...
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Dr John Koessler
Aug 6, 20232 min read
A SERVANT OF THE GOSPEL
Daily Devotional Ephesians 3:1–13 I was nervous when I first told my mother I wanted to attend school to learn how to become a pastor....
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Dr John Koessler
Aug 5, 20232 min read
BREAKING DOWN THE WALL
Daily Devotional Ephesians 2:14–22 In Paul’s day, non-Jews who visited the Temple of Jerusalem were confined to the outermost section...
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Dr John Koessler
Aug 4, 20232 min read
BEFORE AND AFTER
Daily Devotional Ephesians 2:1–13 Ads and commercials for diet supplements and exercise equipment sometimes include “before” and “after”...
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Dr John Koessler
Aug 4, 20232 min read
A PRAYER FROM PRISON
Daily Devotional Ephesians 1:15–23 When I was a boy, I occasionally wrote letters to my grandmother who lived in another state. They...
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Dr John Koessler
Aug 4, 20232 min read
REALITY CHECK
Daily Devotional Ephesians 1:1–14 People sometimes use the phrase “reality check” to mean recognizing the circumstances that hinder us...
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Dr John Koessler
Aug 4, 20232 min read
LETTERS FROM A ROMAN PRISON
Daily Devotional 2 Corinthians 11:16–33 When Martin Luther King Jr. penned his Letter From a Birmingham City Jail in April 1963, he...
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