Grace Lutheran Church Devotional: Isaiah 55:6–9 (ESV)
Seek the Lord while he may be found; call upon him while he is near; let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.
Grace Lutheran Church Devotional: Matthew 18:21–35 (ESV)
Peter came up and said to [Jesus], “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?”
Grace Lutheran Church Devotional: Matthew 15:21–28 (ESV)
Jesus went away from there and withdrew to the district of Tyre and Sidon. And behold, a Canaanite woman from that region came out and was crying, “Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David; my daughter is severely oppressed by a demon.”
Grace Lutheran Church Devotional: Matthew 14:22–33 (ESV)
Immediately [Jesus] made the disciples get into the boat and go before him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowds. And after he had dismissed the crowds, he went up on the mountain by himself to pray.
Grace Lutheran Church Devotional: Romans 8:28–39
We know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
Grace Lutheran Church Devotional: Romans 8:18–27 (ESV)
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God.
Grace Lutheran Church Devotional: Romans 7:14–25a (ESV)
We know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin. I do not understand my own actions.
Grace Lutheran Church Devotional: Romans 6:12–23 (ESV)
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions. Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness.
Grace Lutheran Church Devotional: Matthew 9:35—10:8 (ESV)
Jesus went throughout all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction. When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.
Grace Lutheran Church Devotional: Hosea 5:15–6:6 (ESV)
I will return again to my place, until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face, and in their distress earnestly seek me. “Come, let us return to the Lord; for he has torn us, that he may heal us; he has struck us down, and he will bind us up.
Grace Lutheran Church Devotional: Psalm 8 (ESV)
O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens. 2Out of the mouth of babes and infants, you have established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger.
Grace Lutheran Church Devotional: John 7:37–39 (ESV)
On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’”
Grace Lutheran Church Devotional: John 17:1–11 (ESV)
When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, "Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you, since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him. And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent."
Grace Lutheran Church Devotional: John 14:15–21 (ESV)
[Jesus said:] "If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him."
Grace Lutheran Church Devotional: John 14:1–14 (ESV)
[Jesus said:] “Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many rooms."
Grace Lutheran Church Devotional: John 10:1–10 (ESV)
[Jesus said:] “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber. But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep."