Sunrise Devotions

Today we read Luke 4:1-13, Full of the Spirit and freshly named as the beloved Son, Jesus is driven into the wilderness to face the same tempter who overcame Adam, and where Adam fell in a garden of plenty, Jesus stands in a place of want and does not fall. Reading the Gospels Together” is a journey through the Four Gospels, following Cornelis De Graaf’s Promise and Deliverance framework. Week by ...

Today we read Luke 3:21-38. At the Jordan the Father declares from heaven who Jesus is, and Luke's genealogy then traces that same Jesus all the way back to Adam, so that the Son heaven names is also the Son who stands with the whole human race. Reading the Gospels Together” is a journey through the Four Gospels, following Cornelis De Graaf’s Promise and Deliverance framework. Week by week, it tra...

Today we read Luke 3:1-20. After thirty hidden years, John steps out of the wilderness to prepare Israel for her Lord. His message is blunt: repent, bear fruit, and do not trust your pedigree to save you. Reading the Gospels Together” is a journey through the Four Gospels, following Cornelis De Graaf’s Promise and Deliverance framework. Week by week, it traces how God’s covenant promises are fulfi...

Today we read Luke 2:41-52. At twelve years old, Jesus is found in His Father’s house, already conscious of who He is and why He has come. He then returns to Nazareth and submits, in perfect obedience, to His earthly parents. Reading the Gospels Together” is a journey through the Four Gospels, following Cornelis De Graaf’s Promise and Deliverance framework. Week by week, it traces how God’s covena...

Today we read Luke 2:21-40. Mary and Joseph bring the infant Jesus to the temple in simple obedience to the law. There an old man and an old woman, who have waited a lifetime, recognize Him as the salvation of God. Reading the Gospels Together” is a journey through the Four Gospels, following Cornelis De Graaf’s Promise and Deliverance framework. Week by week, it traces how God’s covenant promises...

Today we read Luke 2:1-20, A Roman census moves an obscure couple to Bethlehem, and there, in a feeding trough for animals, the Lord of heaven and earth is born. Shepherds, not kings, are the first to hear the news. Reading the Gospels Together” is a journey through the Four Gospels, following Cornelis De Graaf’s Promise and Deliverance framework. Week by week, it traces how God’s covenant promise...

Today we read Luke 1:57-80. Mary hurries to Elizabeth, and the Holy Spirit lets each woman recognize the miracle God is working in the other. Mary's answer is the Magnificat, a song of praise for the God who keeps His ancient promises by lifting up the humble. Reading the Gospels Together” is a journey through the Four Gospels, following Cornelis De Graaf’s Promise and Deliverance framework. Week ...

Today we read Luke 1:29-56. Mary hurries to Elizabeth, and the Holy Spirit lets each woman recognize the miracle God is working in the other. Mary's answer is the Magnificat, a song of praise for the God who keeps His ancient promises by lifting up the humble. Reading the Gospels Together” is a journey through the Four Gospels, following Cornelis De Graaf’s Promise and Deliverance framework. Week ...

Today we read Luke 1:26-38. God announces the most marvelous event in the history of the world — the incarnation of His Son — to a young girl in an obscure village. And she believes Him. Reading the Gospels Together” is a journey through the Four Gospels, following Cornelis De Graaf’s Promise and Deliverance framework. Week by week, it traces how God’s covenant promises are fulfilled in Jesus Chri...

*sorry for sound, i have a cold and recording was distorted a tad! Today we begin the Gospel of Luke and we read Luke 1:1-25. After four hundred years of silence, God speaks. He announces the forerunner of the Redeemer — and the Lord has not forgotten one promise. Reading the Gospels Together” is a journey through the Four Gospels, following Cornelis De Graaf’s Promise and Deliverance framework. W...

Today we return to our Bavinck Devotional and consider the resurrection of Christ. Book: Daily Devotions with Herman Bavinck: Believing and Growing in Christian Faith by Donald McKim

Today we read a devotion from Donald McKim's devotional, Daily Devotions with Herman Bavinck.

Today we read Matthew 27:45-56. In the darkest three hours of human history, the Son of God cries out in abandonment, yields up His spirit, and the creation responds: the temple veil tears in two, the earth shakes, the tombs open — and a Roman soldier becomes the first person to confess what the high priest refused to believe. Reading the Gospels Together” is a journey through the Four Gospels, fo...

Today we read Matthew 27:27-44.The Son of God is mocked as a king, stripped, crowned with thorns, nailed to a cross between two criminals, and taunted to come down — enduring without a word the very shame and curse He had come to bear. Reading the Gospels Together” is a journey through the Four Gospels, following Cornelis De Graaf’s Promise and Deliverance framework. Week by week, it traces how Go...

Today we read Matthew 27:1-28. Judas returns his blood money and kills himself in despair; Jesus stands before Pilate and is condemned not because He is guilty but because Pilate lacks the courage to release Him — and the crowd chooses Barabbas. Reading the Gospels Together” is a journey through the Four Gospels, following Cornelis De Graaf’s Promise and Deliverance framework. Week by week, it tra...

Today we read Matthew 26:57-75. While Jesus stands before the Sanhedrin and confesses under oath that He is the Christ — for which He is condemned to death and spat upon — Peter sits outside in the courtyard and denies three times that he knows the Man. Reading the Gospels Together” is a journey through the Four Gospels, following Cornelis De Graaf’s Promise and Deliverance framework. Week by week...

Today we read Matthew 26:30-56. In the garden, the Son of God wrestles in prayer until He has conquered His horror of death and can face the cup with total willingness — then surrenders Himself to those who come to arrest Him, not because He is overpowered but because He has chosen to drink the cup to its last drop. Reading the Gospels Together” is a journey through the Four Gospels, following Cor...

Today we read Matthew 26:1-29.As the cross approaches, three things converge in this passage: a woman who understood what the disciples could not, a disciple who betrayed what the woman loved, and the Savior who gathered His own around a table and gave them the covenant He was about to seal with His blood. Reading the Gospels Together” is a journey through the Four Gospels, following Cornelis De G...

Today we read Matthew 25:31-46. Jesus closes the Olivet Discourse with the most majestic and sobering scene in all of Matthew’s Gospel: the Son of Man enthroned in glory, all nations gathered before Him, the sheep and goats divided by the single question of whether they served Christ in serving the least of His brothers. Reading the Gospels Together” is a journey through the Four Gospels, followin...

Today we read Matthew 24:29-51. Jesus declares that the Son of Man will come in power and glory to gather His elect, then insists that no one knows the day or the hour — and calls every generation to the watchful readiness of those who know their Master may return at any moment. Reading the Gospels Together” is a journey through the Four Gospels, following Cornelis De Graaf’s Promise and Deliveran...

Today we read Matthew 24:1-29. Leaving the temple for the last time, Jesus predicts its total destruction — and then from the Mount of Olives gives His disciples a sober account of what lies between His departure and His return: false messiahs, wars, persecutions, apostasy, and an abomination that will signal the time to flee. Reading the Gospels Together” is a journey through the Four Gospels, fo...

Today we read Matthew 23:25-39. Jesus presses the final woes to their devastating conclusion: outward religion concealing inward death, the blood of the prophets coming to rest on one generation. Then He breaks into a lament over Jerusalem that reveals the grief of the God who longed to gather His people and was refused. Reading the Gospels Together” is a journey through the Four Gospels, followin...

Today we read Matthew 23:1-24. Jesus turns from answering His adversaries to openly indicting them — warning the crowds against the scribes and Pharisees who say and do not do, then pronouncing a series of woes that expose the religious corruption at the heart of Israel’s leadership. Reading the Gospels Together” is a journey through the Four Gospels, following Cornelis De Graaf’s Promise and Deli...

Today we read Matthew 22:23-46. The Sadducees try to reduce the resurrection to an absurdity and are silenced; the Pharisees try once more with a question about the greatest commandment and receive an answer that exposes the whole of their religious failure — then Jesus turns the tables with a question about Psalm 110 that none of them can answer. Reading the Gospels Together” is a journey through...

Today we read Matthew 22:1-22. Jesus describes the kingdom as a royal wedding feast where the invited refuse to come and outsiders fill the hall — then answers an attempt to trap Him over taxes with a reply that has shaped Christian political thought ever since: give to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s. Reading the Gospels Together” is a journey through the Four Gospels, following...