Category: Devotionals
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Not Even Death
Welcome to Day 23 of Journey to the Cross, a forty-day devotional preparing our hearts for Easter Sunday. Today we begin thinking about persistence in the journey. Romans 5:4 says, “Endurance produces character, and character produces hope.” Travelers need persistence. The longer the journey, the more perseverance is needed. Jesus faced many obstacles as He…
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The Place of Peace
Welcome to day 22 of Journey to the Cross, a forty-day devotional leading to Easter. Today we look at the final significant place along Jesus’s journey to the cross. While going up to Jerusalem, Jesus took the twelve disciples aside privately and said to them on the way, “See, we are going up to Jerusalem.…
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Unexpected Places
Welcome to Day 21 of Journey to the Cross, a 40-day devotional leading to Easter. Today we look at unexpected places. Our reading comes from Matthew 14. [Jesus] said, “Come.” So Peter got out of the boat and walked on water and came to Jesus. Matthew 14:29 Unexpected places make a journey memorable. Maybe you…
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The Borderless Love of Jesus
Welcome to the halfway point of our Journey to the Cross devotional. Today is day 20 of our 40-day devotional, and we examine the borderless love of Jesus. When Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard he was making and baptizing more disciples than John (though Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples were),…
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Been There, Done That
Welcome to Day 19 of Journey to the Cross, a forty-day devotional preparing for Easter. Yesterday we looked at Jesus’s baptism in the Jordan River. Today we pick up in Mark right after His baptism. Immediately the Spirit drove him into the wilderness. He was in the wilderness forty days, being tempted by Satan. He…
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Mercy Flows Down
Welcome to Day 18 of Journey to the Cross, a 40-day devotional in preparation for Easter Sunday. Today we continue to look at some places along Jesus’s journey to the cross. Three of the Gospels record Jesus’s baptism, but let’s look at Matthew’s version in chapter 3. Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at…
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The Places God Will Go
Welcome to Day 17 of Journey to the Cross, a forty-day devotional in preparation for Easter. Today we begin looking at the places along the path. Let’s first look at what is said of John the Baptist in Luke 3. “He went into all the vicinity of the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for…
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Chosen for a Reason
Welcome to Day 16 of Journey to the Cross, a 40-day devotional leading to Easter. I must begin by apologizing for being late with this post. I have been under the weather for the past several days and have failed to post. However, we will get caught up before we get to Easter, so don’t…
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Unexpected Friends
Welcome to Day 15 of our 40-day devotional titled Journey to the Cross. Today we look at an amazing and sometimes confusing passage in Matthew 15:21-28. When Jesus left there, he withdrew to the area of Tyre and Sidon. Just then a Canaanite woman from that region came and kept crying out, “Have mercy on…
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Stepping Out in Faith
Welcome to Day 14 of Journey to the Cross, a 40-day devotional leading to Easter Sunday. Today we look at a famous passage in which Peter steps out in faith. Our passage is Matthew 14:22—33. “Immediately he made the disciples get into the boat and go ahead of him to the other side, while he…
Joel McReynolds 