Just Abide Daily

Fellowship is not work; fellowship is an opportunity, a blessing, a gift.

Are you holding your plan so tightly it cannot be changed?

Follow rules you don’t even have to, if it helps you get into a room, or stay in a room, with people who need to hear the Good News.

In this devotion from John 8:10–11, Cory Patton shows how Jesus stoops low to restore the one caught in sin, exposing self-righteousness and offering mercy that leads to real transformation. Grace does not ignore sin, it frees us from condemnation and gives strength to walk in holiness. Expect Scripture-rich encouragement and a clear reminder that we do not change to earn grace; we change because...

So when there's disagreement, focus on the mission and not the strategy.

Antioch wasn’t just busy; it was blessed, and you can see it in what grew there.

Praise God, salvation is a gift and not a loan.

Not every teaching we receive in the church was sent from God.

God isn’t asking us to carry what He never put on our shoulders.

We believe we are all saved the same way, through the undeserved grace of the Lord Jesus, not through what we have done.

In this sermon from Romans 4:18–21, Cory Patton walks through Abraham’s “fully convinced” faith and shows what it looks like to trust God when circumstances feel dead and hope feels unreasonable. Faith has no plan B. It rests in El Shaddai (God Almighty), trusts Him with the “whatever,” and clings to what God has said. Expect Scripture-rich encouragement and practical prompts to turn up God’s Word...

Bad teaching has to be addressed immediately.

God’s people still need elders, the modern apostle needs elders, and our elders need apostles.

Put on the armor of God daily so you can resist the schemes of the enemy, and after your battles you will stand firm like Paul and Barnabas.

Let believers circle around you in the middle of whatever you are going through, put Christ at the center, and then get up in faith.

God can do what we cannot do in an instant, and he does it with overflow.

Keep your hope in God and continue looking up today, not at the wind and the waves.

In this devotion from John 6:29, Cory Patton reminds us that God’s “one requirement” is not performance, striving, or proving ourselves. Our job is to believe in Jesus. It’s the same message Jesus preached that Paul and Barnabas continued to proclaim and be persecuted for in Acts 13–14. Faith grows when we stop chasing what Jesus can give and return to Jesus Himself as the bread of life.

A move of God requires that the grace of the Lord be the center, which is the empowerment by Holy Spirit for the preaching and for the signs and the wonders.

The source wasn't the leaders; the source was God.

Preaching creates believers, and believers are the ones that primarily spread the message.

They were looking at the wrong thing; inward instead of upward.

Grace is not just forgiveness, it's empowerment.

Pentecost Sunday marks the day the Holy Spirit was poured out on Jesus’ followers, empowering our witness for Christ and marking the public launch of the church. It comes 50 days after Easter and lines up with Shavuot, when Jerusalem was filled with worshipers from many nations, setting the stage for Acts 2. In this special episode, we revisit Acts 2:39 and the promise that the gift of the Holy Sp...

In this message from Ephesians 2:11–18, Cory Patton reminds us not to forget who we were before Jesus (outsiders, excluded, and without hope), and then points us to the gospel hinge: “But now.” You were far away, but you’ve been brought near through the blood of Christ, not through performance and not through religious polish. Expect a straight, Scripture-anchored call for us to live like the wall...