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Devotionals about Discipleship

Hebrews

Simple Love

Read: Hebrews 13:1-7 Let mutual love continue. (v. 1 NRSV) When I had two children in elementary school, I was constantly signing student homework planners to keep track of what was

Hebrews

Peace Be with You

Read: Hebrews 12:14-15 Strive for peace with everyone. (v. 14) Each year we plant a small garden in our back yard. The kids can pick cherry tomatoes for snacks and I

Hebrews

Training Regimen

Read: Hebrews 12:3-13 Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees. (v. 12) I’m wonderful at making plans to get in shape. Following through on them? Not so much.

Hebrews

Cheering Squad

Read: Hebrews 12:1-2 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses . . . let us run with endurance the race that is set before us.

Discipleship

God’s Motley Crew

Read: Hebrews 11:23-31 By faith the people crossed the Red Sea as on dry land. (v. 29) Sometimes I look around at the people in the church and think, what a

Hebrews

A Promised Home

Read: Hebrews 11:8-22 But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. (v. 16) In our family, we have two philosophies of campfire tending. I tend

Faith

Seeing the Invisible

Read: Hebrews 11:1-3 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. (v. 1) Planting a garden is an act of hope. When I plant

Hebrews

Remember Where You’ve Been

Read: Hebrews 10:26-39 But recall the former days when, after you were enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings. (v. 32) One of my favorite things about parenting is curling

Hebrews

Positive Peer Pressure

Read: Hebrews 10:19-25 And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works. (v. 24) I like to make my own salad dressings. I can add