“The governor answered and said to them, ‘Which of the two do you want me to release to you?’ They said, ‘Barabbas!’ Pilate said to them, ‘What then’.” This is one of my favorite Easter devotions, so important that I wanted to share it with you weeks before Good Friday so you can think about it and its importance for Easter. The story below is why we can describe that fateful Friday as Good Friday. In Jesus’ time, the Romans had a long-standing tradition at Passover of releasing […]

“Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait til the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of men’s hearts.” (I Corinthians 4:5) I heard a testimony from a lady in my church. She confessed to having a nervous breakdown and was so stressed out that she couldn’t remember her own name. Ultimately, it was her faith that brought her through. “I may not have known my name,” she exclaimed, “but Jesus did.” I thought about her story […]

“For the Lamb…will lead them to springs of living water.” (Revelation 7:17) Fanny Crosby wrote over 8,000 hymns during her lifetime, many of which still appear in today’s hymnals. Hymns like “Blessed Assurance”, “All the Way My Savior Leads Me”, “To God Be the Glory”, “Pass Me Not, O Gentle Savior”, “Safe in the Arms of Jesus”, “He Hideth My Soul”, and “Praise Him, Praise Him” continue to draw souls to God for both salvation and comfort. No hymn writer has ever had a clearer vision of Jesus […]

“But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were entrusted.” (Romans 6:17) I understand exactly what the Apostle Paul meant when he said, “You used to be slaves to sin”. However, I didn’t understand it until I was born again. Salvation gave me a whole different perspective about the life I used to live. The truth is I can’t believe some of the things I did, not to mention some of the […]