Encouraging Words Devotional

Be A Courageous Mother

The Pharoah of Egypt noticed the Hebrew people who lived in his country were multiplying at a higher rate than his own people.

This Is Most Important Decision You Will Ever Make

Our friend told me that he was challenged during Easter Week to pick a person from the Easter story and study and meditate on that person’s life. 

You Can Make a Difference For Others

New York Times bestselling author Matthew Kelly tells of the time he was driving home from work, and a friend came to mind. 

Why Jesus Had to Come to Earth

In his book Follow Me, David Platt tells that he was once sitting with a group of Muslim men at dinner who began to ask him what he thought about God. 

Stop Feeling Shame About Your Past

We know it as “The Prodigal Son” story—the experience of a young man who talked his father into giving him his portion of the inheritance, which he immediately took into a far-off country, wasting it on “wine, women and song.”

God’s Evaluation Of Your Life

David Platt tells about an Englishman who decided to buy a Rolls-Royce, the car advertised as the one that would “never, ever, ever break down.”[1] 

 

[1] David Platt, Follow Me (TYNDALE, 2013), 61.

How to Love Your Enemies

Someone asked an associate of author Max Lucado, “What Biblical precedent do we have to help the poor who have no desire to become Christians?”

Learn How to Process Grief

In his book Victorious Grief, Dr. Charles Browning gives a step-by-step lifeline to those who struggle with grieving when they lose a beloved and believing loved one.

God Wants to Forgive You

As parents sometimes our main concern when our children do wrong is disciplining them so they remember never to make that mistake again.

By Faith We Understand

When it comes to the magnificent things that God created, my mind is simply inadequate to grasp how God could start with nothing and create anything so complex as the universe.