(The following is the January 8 devotional from my Next Step Devotions book. Before reading it, I suggest you read Matthew 7 and pay close attention to verses 15-20.) No human can see with perfect clarity inside another person’s heart. We have difficulty understanding our own hearts with our ongoing battle between the new nature we have in Christ …
Matters of the Heart
(The following is the January 5 devotional from my Next Step Devotions book. Before reading it, I suggest you read Matthew 5 and pay close attention to verses 21-30.) If you ask a random individual, “Do you think you are a good person?” most will respond affirmatively. We eagerly compare ourselves favorably with those who do things we would …
Using God’s Word to Resist Temptation
(The following is the January 4 devotional from my Next Step Devotions book. Before reading it, I suggest you read Matthew 4 and pay close attention to verses 1-11.) Lessons from Jesus’ wilderness temptation can help us during our temptations. One lesson his experience teaches is that facing temptation is not necessarily sinful. If it were, then Jesus sinned. …
Ways to Speak the Truth
(The following is the January 3 devotional from my Next Step Devotions book. Before reading it, I suggest you read Matthew 3 and pay close attention to verses 7-10.) John the Baptist didn’t win any congeniality awards. He was blunt from the early days of his public baptisms through his final days in prison, speaking the truth to immoral …
Obeying God Immediately
(The following is the January 2 devotional from my Next Step Devotions book. Before reading it, I suggest you read Matthew 2 and pay close attention to verses 13-15 and 19-23.) An angel appeared to Joseph in a dream and instructed him to take Mary and Jesus to Egypt. Herod was about to issue a decree to massacre all …
