(The following is the June 22 devotional from my Next Step Devotions book. Before reading it, I suggest you read Romans 7 and pay close attention to verses 1-13.) The New Testament repeatedly affirms that God saves us by grace through faith in Jesus Christ. We can’t earn salvation through works or obedience to God’s moral law since we’ve …
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Seeing the Bigger Picture
(The following is the April 12 devotional from my Next Step Devotions book. Before reading it, I suggest you read John 5 and pay close attention to verses 1-16.) Jesus occasionally acted on the Sabbath in ways that upset Jewish religious leaders. Through the centuries, leaders had added hundreds of rules to what God spoke through his Word and …
