Pastor Scott’s Daily Devotions
a daily prayer resource to inspire, encourage, and inform
Learning to Enjoy Playtime
Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O LORD, my rock and my redeemer. (Psalm 19:14)
Middle School and Hell: A Difference?
For we aim at what is honorable not only in the Lord's sight but also in the sight of humanity. (2 Corinthians 8:21)
Word and Action in Harmony
For we aim at what is honorable not only in the Lord's sight but also in the sight of humanity. (2 Corinthians 8:21)
Bitter Old Filch
For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice. (James 3:16)
Flashy as Gilderoy Lockhart
Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. (Matthew 6:1)
From Neville Longbottom to Superhero
Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men [adults], be strong. (1 Corinthians 16:13)
Hagrid Knocking at Your Door
For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. (Matthew 7:8)
Deeper Love is Divine
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. (John 15:13)
Steps to Emotional Intelligence
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. (Galatians 5:22-23)
Grateful for Baby Shark? Is that Possible?
This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. (Psalm 118:24)
What Gravity Tells Us of Faith
But you are not in darkness, brothers, for that day to surprise you like a thief. (1 Thessalonians 5:4)
More Than Animals
Then God said, “Let us make man [humans] in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” (Genesis 1:26)
Life Worth Living
Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom in the future.
(Proverbs 19:20)
The Risk You Cannot Afford Not to Take!
He who observes the wind will not sow, and he who regards the clouds will not reap. As you do not know the way the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything. In the morning sow your seed, and at evening withhold not your hand, for you do not know which will prosper, this or that, or whether both alike will be good. (Ecclesiastes 11:4-6)
Excavating the Flowing Current
Seek the LORD and his strength; seek his presence continually! (1 Chronicles 16:11)
The Gift of Weakness
“If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.” (2 Corinthians 11:30)
Ask, Seek, and Knock
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.” (Matthew 7:7-8)
The Artist and the Craftsperson
“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created.”
(Revelation 4:11)
The Sin Upon Indigenous People
Learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause. (Isaiah 1:17)
Three Times Ain’t Enough
“But you, take courage! Do not let your hands be weak, for your work shall be rewarded.”
(2 Chronicles 15:7)